Posy

Notes for whoever's hosting.

How to collect the photos everyone else took — at weddings, birthdays, trips and everything in between.

Wedding guests dancing together under paper lanterns at the reception
weddings

The wedding photos your guests took — and how to get them all

Every guest at your wedding is carrying a camera. Most of what they shoot never reaches you. Here is why that happens, and how to fix it before the day rather than after.

Team Posy3 min read
Guests dancing at a wedding reception
weddings

One photographer can't cover a whole wedding

This isn't a criticism of photographers. It's arithmetic. Here's which parts of the day fall outside any one person's reach, and who is already standing there.

Team Posy2 min read
A person in a party hat holding sparklers behind a birthday cake
birthdays parties

Birthday party photos that aren't forty near-identical selfies

Everyone photographs a birthday and nobody ends up with a good set. The problem isn't the phones — it's that nothing tells anyone what's worth shooting.

Team Posy2 min read
Lit birthday candles spelling out a message on a cake in a dark room
birthdays parties

How to get everyone's party photos into one album

The photos exist. They're just scattered across twenty phones, three group chats and a story that expired. Here's how to collect them without nagging anybody.

Team Posy2 min read
View from inside a car on a road trip through forested hills
trips

Group trip photos: one album instead of five camera rolls

Everyone comes home from the same trip with a different version of it. Here's how to end up with one shared record rather than five private ones.

Team Posy2 min read
trips
trips

The end-of-trip photo swap, and why it never happens

Everyone agrees to share their photos on the last night. Almost nobody does. A look at why the swap fails and what to do instead of relying on goodwill.

Team Posy2 min read
A crowd of people cheering together at a night-time event
corporate

Team offsite photos without a shared drive nobody opens

Every company event produces a folder somebody made and nobody looks at. Here's how to get photos people actually want, from the people who were actually there.

Team Posy2 min read
A person holding sparklers at a party, others celebrating behind
corporate

What to do with the photos from the company party

Work parties produce the most photographed and least shared events of the year. The reason is privacy — and it's solvable without giving up the photos.

Team Posy2 min read

Hand every guest a camera at your next event.