For many photographers, the question of what to do with pictures after you have taken them is a formidable issue. We take thousands of pictures and then what? My personal solution was essentially to do nothing, because that was the easiest path.
 
Fortunately, the younger generation kept encouraging me to share my photos on social media, and specifically on Instagram. It is the logical place to post photos because it is a photo-sharing app.
 
Certainly, there are other photo-sharing communities. Flickr is one that comes to mind. An essential difference between Flickr and Instagram is that on Flickr, photographers share their work with other photographers.
On Instagram, photographers share their work with people interested in looking at photos. I eventually opened an Instagram account, and my life as a photographer has not been the same since.
 
This guide on how to build an Instagram account is not meant to teach millennials – they figured out how to accomplish that years ago.
 
It is not meant to teach people who plan to use Instagram to post family pictures – their Instagram audience will develop naturally.