What Travel Photos Should I Take?

Take as many photos that would fit on one or two album pages for each important moment, landmark, location, day, etc. Whether you print these photos and put them in a slide-in album or create a photo book, you’ll only need 4-8 photos per page. A good rule of thumb might be to end up with 10-15 photos per moment, that way you’ll still have some room to pick and choose which photos you want to have printed. Click here for a fun article on a Disney photo example.

Remember each important moment should not include the rest stops and photos through windows as you travel to your next destination. Exceptions to this could include some major happening that you want to remember (like seeing a buffalo on the road or passing a monument you won’t be stopping to see.)

Let's just review a typical stack of photos from recent vacation trips. You could take:

• Ten different poses of the same people in front of monuments
• Another ten poses of a combination of the same people in front of different landmarks
• No pictures of the family at major, recognizable locations
• Repetitious landscapes
• Unrecognizable locations
• Way too many pictures of animals, exhibits and other items
• Pictures of food

So the answer is, yes, you could take an unlimited amount of photos.  But, should you?