Ask HN: What are non-social media ways to share photography/art

Hello all,

I bought a camera and I found that I love taking pictures. However after a year or two of taking pictures I’ve found myself in a rut. I don’t know what to do with the pictures or how to share them with others because I cannot use social media (other than HN and LinkedIn.) I personally have just found the scrolling and infinite content mechanisms are way too addicting for me, so I stay off of it.

This leads to my photos just sitting in Dropbox, often unedited because I don’t have motivation to edit them, because the most I’d do with them is share with family / a few close friends, and put them on a website nobody looks at. If I could find a way to share with others it might motivate me to put more effort into it.

I’m wondering if people have any ways they’ve found to share their art with others that doesn’t involve social media.

After a photowalk I make a "selection" subfolder where I pick the best photos (sometimes with a minimal crop/rotate) like one other commenter commented.

(Back in the day... when I went through my weekly/monthly-photowalks years, I used 500px because I wanted to have my "HQ" photos accessible online (but away from social media). For some reason I dumped them many-many years ago (I think they introduced some pricing setup that I was unwilling to follow. Then I "moved" to Tumblr because they had a nice setup (I remember you could upload a batch of 10-15 photos and have them mixed landscape and portrait and you could click to enlarge etc.) but my (unique) hashtags were quickly hijacked (imagine a brand new #sunsetinXYZisland tag being used for anal porn within the hour).

So now I keep everything on my laptop (and ext drive)(and Carbonite) and I have a 10+yo ACDSsee ultimate license and share nothing with no-on. Perhaps when I die, whoever "inherits" my digital archives may be interested to keep the "selection" subfolders, but I have determined that when we die nobody will care for the thousands of photos and GBs of videos.

My best friend died almost a year ago. We have been together to many-many concerts where he would record almost the whole concerr (VERY difficult to record a Metallica concert (or ten) while headbanging) to never watch these.

..all these moments will be lost in time.. (to quote one of the best movie lines ever from on of the best movies ever) (sorry for the pessimism, it's just that 'we' tend to spend time holding a camera (mostly on a smartphone) instead of living those moments, that they will eventually be lost in time...)