Time to get scrapbooking!

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Well, now that I have something like 1,900 pictures in my collection, the one thing I dread most is having PhotoBucket go down or the Mick Fleetwood Hit Squad remove my site for copyright infringement. So I've decided on a relatively low-tech solution: make a scrapbook.

My "scrapbook" is a 8.5" x 11" hardcover drawing book that I never got around to using. In fact, when I opened it up, the only thing I could find was an abysmal attempt at drawing the Nostromo from Alien a few years back. Nothing I'm going to regret pasting a Stevie picture over!

Anyway, I have about 380 double-sided pages left to experiment with, which even then probably won't fit my entire collection. That's okay - not all of them are worthy of permanent display anyway. My technique is almost barbarically simplistic. Print the pictures out on plain paper and in black & white, cut them out, and then glue them to the pages using inexpensive model airplane glue*. This is real no frills stuff, people.

Here are a couple examples of what I'm trying to accomplish:


Pictures that came from a high-resolution source or are exceptionally nice are shown on a page all their own.


Smaller pictures are grouped together in fours and fives. I'm trying my best to keep the distances from the pictures varied so the pages don't become repetitive. As you tell I'm not exactly sticking to a particular era or theme here.


On the left is another example of the melange technique, a bit more orderly than the last. If I have two pictures of similar size or with a similar pose, I'll put them on the same page, even if they're not from the same era.

I obviously have a long way to go with this scrapbook (the amount of black ink being the limiting factor), and I was wondering if anyone has any suggestions for completing such a major project. Thanks.

*The glue I'm using is the same kind used by modelers to glue clear parts to models without fogging the plastic. It's not superglue, but still should only be used in small quantities. The ridges you see around the two pictures in the first image were caused by using too much of the stuff.