Technical photo skills are getting easier to do all the time. Keep a visual daily diary with your camera and/or smartphone. On a cruise, capture the ship docking in San Francisco Bay. On a group or family trip to Venice, get selfie stick shots in Moscow and feeding pigeons in St. Mark’s Square. In Paris cafés and other happy places, record sounds and sights of fun happenings.

When you get home, edit the best results into a movie or paste-up online scrapbook and send copies to your companions. Everyone will then have happy visual memories of the special times you spent together.