The Kids Stay In the Picture

Where do you store your digital photos? If it’s an issue, I have a good suggestion: The clouds!

I recently learned about cloud storage at fun pre-Father’s Day event hosted by Cool Mom Tech.

The event offered children a chance to work on their Father’s Day Cards, make LEGO frames for Polaroid Zip pictures, and hit a make shift iPad photo “booth” to take fun and silly photos. The attending families also had fun posing for two amazing photographers, Tory Williams, who focused on family portraits, and Aaron Adler, who snapped a lot of fun event shots.

For me, the combination of family fun and great photography made a palpable connection back to the issue most of us can relate to: How best to store our most precious digital photos.

Enter the cloud, and in particular the one provided by Amazon Cloud Drive.

In our photo-loving, photo-posting world, Amazon Cloud offers an unlimited photo storage plan that allows you to upload pics, store the securely, and access them from any common device. What’s more, as part of their plan, you also 5GB of space free to store non-photo files (like videos).

It’s a good deal, too. First off, if you happen to already be a member of Amazon Prime, you can download the Amazon Photo App and use their “Unlimited Photo” plan for free! Non-members can jump in to the “Unlimited Photo” plan with a free trial offer for three months, and then pay only $11.99 year.

And of course, cloud storage is not only about photos. Amazon also offers cloud cover for everything else you might need digital storage for under their “Unlimited Everything” plan, covering not only photos and videos but also files and documents. The basic “Unlimited” offer is a three-month free trial and then an annual fee of $59.99 per year. But if you’re already an Amazon Prime member, then it’s a matter of an upgrade fee.

I’m sure we’re all going to be using the cloud much more as we go forward, and some of us probably use it already more than we realize. It was nice to learn more about it in such a lovely way, having fun with my family, and seeing firsthand the human connection between tech and parenting.

If you want to learn learn more about Amazon Cloud Drive, visit amazon.com/clouddrive.

If you want to learn more about Cool Mom Tech, visit coolmomtech.com! Incidentally, their wonderful flagship website, Cool Mom Picks, has also recently introduced another fun spinoff: Cool Mom Eats!

Christopher Persley writes about parenting and diversity at TheBrownGothamite.com, co-organizes the NYC Dads Group, teaches English part-time, but mostly at-home parents his 4-year-old daughter.