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I love taking photos. But I only take photos for my own enjoyment: not to share with anyone, and not to get any feedback. I only have an instagram because friends in real life have begged me to get one so they can actually see the photos I take with them.

No, I take photos for my own enjoyment, and I can recommend the following:

- set a photo you have taken as your phone background, or rotate through a folder of them[0]

- do the same for your computer wallpaper

- buy some frames and stick your photos in, change them every few months

You'll now enjoy taking photos for the joy of taking photos, and when you look at them you'll remember the day out or the holiday you were on... not be thinking about whether anyone else likes them.

[0]I actually have an Lightroom export folder set at my phone resolution that I can adb sync to my phone, it works a treat

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I have a similar feeling.

I share the photos I make with my wife and daughter but, otherwise they're just for me. My wife used some of the photos with various printing services to make physical articles that we interact with and that increased my enjoyment of the photos even more. I really like interacting with the photos I make as physical articles.

She had a couple of coffee mugs made with collages of family pictures. I get a kick out of seeing the photos each time I wash them.

She also surprised us with a "memory" card game made with 24 photos from family trips and gatherings. It made a simple game into a conversation about the people, places, and occasions in the photos.

She also had a tote bag printed with a larger-than-life print of a photo of my daughter's face om it. There's something particularly surreal, to me, about having an article like that with the face of somebody you know on it. It also, of course, prompted me to immediately photograph my daughter carrying the bag... >smile<

Where do you suggest printing photos? I'm in the same boat: I make creative works for myself and don't use social media. However I am totally new to photography and the only way I've printed so far is via the app at CVS.

I like Nations Photo Lab.[0] Reasonable prices and good quality. Remember to unsubscribe from their deluge of promotional emails, though.

[0]: https://www.nationsphotolab.com/

I can't get away from somewhere wanting to get a reaction from someone else, I think. It shouldn't really be that many and on a social platform though.

Do you have a family WhatsApp group or similar? Maybe you could post the pictures in there after you've been on a trip.

The opinions of strangers are not worth chasing.

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