Tag: photo

Since moving to China, I’ve had to move a lot of my internet around:

• Search: Google -> Baidu
• Email: Google -> iCloud
• Maps: Google -> Apple/Baidu
• Chat: Facebook -> WeChat
• TV: BBC iPlayer -> Sohu
• Files: Dropbox -> iCloud
• and so on…

Now I’m looking for a home for my photos.

My ideal is the iCloud Photo Library: all my photos online, seamlessly available to stream to iPhone, iPad and Mac, and all backed up. This is exactly what I want. At the moment I’m trying to get it for free—as my photo library is over 50GB I would have to give Apple some money each month to look after my photos for me. I may end up having to pay as I haven’t found a viable alternative…

In the UK, I was using Flickr. This is great because it has the automatic backup, it has 1TB free storage, and has very nice sharing features. Sadly it’s not available in China.

I’ve just spent some time looking into 500px and Photobucket. Both look pretty good, but the free accounts only have 1GB and 2GB of storage, respectively.

So here’s my question: is there anything as good as Flickr, or better, in China, for free? My guess is: no.