I can be a pretty compulsive photographer — not a professional by any definition, but I do enjoy shooting…perhaps a bit too much. (When I recently told a friend that I shot about 950 photos on our weeklong Disney vacation, he commented “I don’t think my parents took 950 photos of my entire childhood.”)
But unlike a lot of people today, I still have them printed and organized in albums. I used to use Snapfish but switched to Shutterfly for the simple reason that they had an iPhoto plugin. Even though I preferred snapfish.com’s user interface, allowing me to export my photos directly from iPhoto was worth dealing with Shutterfly’s crappy site. I don’t know when Snapfish finally released their iPhoto Exporter, but when I found it last month I happily switched back.
And as an aside, Snapfish’s Christmastime shipping was amazing: I ordered almost 450 photos on December 21 as a gift to my in-laws (I printed and organized their photos for the year). I didn’t expect to get the prints until early January, but they were delivered on December 24! So kudos to Snapfish for (unexpectedly) coming through — my in-laws loved the photo albums!
