What to Do With Years of Wildlife Photos Sitting on Instagram
If your best herping, birding, and safari pictures only live in a feed, here is a structured way to keep them.
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Feeds are a poor archive
Captions get edited. Posts get archived. URLs expire. A Dex stores original eligible media after you review it, which is a different kind of keeping.
Import, then keep shooting
Bring eligible posts across, then keep using live capture for new work. The archive becomes a baseline, not a replacement for being in the field.
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