10/28/2026
đ¸ A Little PSA About Your Photo Galleries! â¤ď¸
I wanted to take a moment to talk about something thatâs come up quite a few times recently.
Over the past few months, Iâve had several past clients reach out looking for photos from sessions and weddings that were delivered anywhere from one to four years ago, only to realize they never downloaded their galleries.
And while I absolutely LOVE that youâre coming back to revisit those memories, I need to share a little reminder about how online galleries work.
Your online gallery is a delivery service, not a permanent storage solution.
As a photographer, I photograph thousands upon thousands of images every year. Between weddings, families, seniors, and everything in between, those files take up an incredible amount of storage space.
In order to continue delivering galleries to new clients, I periodically have to remove older galleries from my website.
I do keep backups of my work whenever possible, but external hard drives can fail, files can become corrupted, and technology is unfortunately never foolproof. Iâve experienced this firsthand and have done my best to recover what I could.
Once your gallery has been delivered, it is your responsibility to download and safely store your photos.
I genuinely cannot stress enough how important this is! Download them to your computer, save them to an external hard drive, back them up to the cloud, and PLEASE donât rely on just one copy.
If you reach out years later looking for your photos, I will absolutely do my best to see if I still have them. However, I cannot guarantee that those images will still be available.
I put so much time, love, and care into capturing and editing your memories, and the last thing I ever want is for those memories to be lost simply because they were never downloaded.
So hereâs your friendly reminder: If youâve had a gallery delivered by me and havenât downloaded it yet, PLEASE go do that! â¤ď¸
And if you downloaded your photos but havenât backed them up somewhere else, consider this your sign!
Your memories deserve more than one home. đ¸â¤ď¸
With love,
Caitlin Marie Photography