Oooof
I just took a backup of my entire LJ, including all the 3000+ photos and comments, using Bookblogger. The result is a massive 724Mb PDF file.
I very much hope that the rumours that the Russian internet will be cut off from the rest of us by a virtual Iron Curtain are untrue. That would be a grim thing, even if the fact that we can all talk so relatively easily to one another now about shared interests and experiences hasn't had the impact I once hoped.
The rumours pushed me in the direction of taking a copy of my own stuff, anyway. I have a copy on Dreamwidth, but not of the photos. Though glancing through the PDF, it hasn't caught all of them, even then - it looks like places where I put a number of photos together without any commentary between them only caught the first image. And I can't remember where I was hosting images before 2009 but it seems to have vanished. Ah well.