Halkidiki, Greece July 2012
We used to store photographs in tin boxes or photo albums which were then hidden away in cupboards or attics. Then digital cameras came along and everything changed. Now we store our pictures in computer folders or on memory sticks or CD's.
Yorkshire Wolds July 2012
I guess that some people who are good at neat organisation by nature have their digital photos stored in a logical, easily accessible manner but with other folk it will be very chaotic with photos all over the place. I guess that I am somewhere between these two extremes.
The French Pyrenees above Ax-les-Thermes July 2012
Since I bought my first digital camera around Christmastime 2004, I have taken thousands of photographs. Looking back, I should have been more ruthless - deleting weaker pictures, saving only the best and most meaningful. But I didn't - I kept most of them like a virtual hoarder.
Hope Cross, Derbyshire July 2012
One wonders how one might feel if one's hard drive imploded or even exploded causing the loss of thousands of pictures. Fortunately, I would still be able to find many of my pictures in this blog or on the Geograph photo-mapping site so not all would be lost. However, I really should get round to backing them up on the external hard drive my daughter bought for me the Christmas before last. I can be such a procrastinator.
"The Riverside" pub, Sheffield - July 2012
For the purposes of this blogpost, I decided to go back ten years to July 2012 and to pick out a small bunch of photographs I took that month. Picked from my computer photo library, dusted off and shared with you.
Sunflowers near Coussa, L'Ariege, France - July 2012
What an interestingly eclectic collection, taken from just one month!
ReplyDeleteThat's what I thought too JayCee.
DeleteLove the Sunflowers photos YP. The old blog is a great way of looking back at photos and posts.
ReplyDeleteI was a young man when I started this blog. Now I am old has-been, ready for the knacker's yard.
DeleteAs always, excellent photos YP - how pristine the little Halkidiki church looks, and those sunflowers are so cheerful.
ReplyDeleteOver the years, since I had my very first black and white camera when I was about eight or nine years old, I have taken photos. Those small black and white prints, then colour slides, videos, and colour prints, many of which found their way here when we moved.
Sometime last year I decided to cull them and just keep a small selection, purely for interest and, I must admit, sentimental reasons. I hadn't realised just how many there were - stored all over the house in sizeable plastic bags - full to the brim. It took me months to sort through them all, and most of them ended up in the rubbish bin. Yet I still come across the occasional bagful! There are also hundreds from my husband's computer, transferred to mine, and now of course there are a fair number on my phone. At least on the last two, they are easy to delete, and there is nothing physical to dispose of.
Sometimes I ask myself - why am I keeping these photos? And to tell you the truth I could not give you a convincing answer. How long have you been living in Spain Carol?
DeleteI have the same question and am planning a cull someday soonish.
DeleteLike you, I would still have access to many of my pictures through my blog and one or two cloud locations that hold pictures which for one reason or other will never be shown on my blog.
ReplyDeleteAs for being organised or chatoic, I guess I tend to be well organised but there is the odd slightly chaotic area in my life as well as on my computer.
The collection of photos from the same month 10 years ago is interesting. Sometimes I go back to old posts of mine and like to compare what was then with what is now.
Ten years is a long time - more than double the number of years I spent at university in Scotland. The words "Meike" and "chaos" do not seem right together!
DeleteBut then you worry what happens if your hard drive fails, so you make a second set of backups, and then what if something happens to your house and you lose all your hard drives so you get another hard drive to keep in the shed, and then you have so many backups and backups of backups that things become even more confusing and disorganised, and then in 50 or 100 years time nobody can be bothered to sort through it all so it was all to no avail anyway.
ReplyDeleteWith this comment you have won "The Optimist of the Year Award"! Always look on the bright side of life.
DeleteYou certainly were busy in July 2012. The sunflowers photo is my favorite. I think a lot of our photos will be lost as even tho they may be found somewhere on my computer, many are not properly labeled. I don't think my kids have much interest in the old, old family photos.
ReplyDeleteSo many images - be they family, holidays, country walks, hobbies. We cannot hang on to them all.
DeleteI have my pictures all divided into folders by year and su folders by date uploaded with descriptions of contents and/or camera they are from. All trip pictures and in a separate set of folders labeled by year and trip destination. Generally I can find anything pretty easily. I do have a plan with Carbonite for a minimal fee that automatically backs them up to the cloud so if a catastrophe were to happen at my house, I haven’t lost everything. It also has the benefit of every photo I’ve ever taken is instantly available on my phone or a computer no matter where I am at. That has come in handy more times than I can count.
ReplyDeleteI bow to you Lord of Organisation!
DeleteI love the artwork (by Phlegm, I believe?) on the Riverside Pub. Great photos all. I have an archiving system with multiple backups that works for me but it takes constant maintenance as I'm always taking new photos!
ReplyDeleteYes - you are right - it is Phlegm! Do you sometimes wonder: Why am I saving all these photos?
DeleteIs it the same Phlegm who has painted here?
DeleteYes it is. He was commissioned to create a mural for the old Love and Lewis building built in 1913. Phlegm's mural journey began here in Sheffield.
DeleteLovely photos. What you don't know about me, is that I love sunflowers. I have a huge painting of sunflowers in my livingroom, done by one of my patients.
ReplyDeleteWe have a lot of photos too and yes, we also don't discard enough of them, my husband especially:)
Now, now - criticising husbands is not permitted!
DeleteMy favorite was the pub, but then the sunflowers came into view and stole the show!
ReplyDelete"The Sunflower Inn" would be a good name for a happy pub.
DeleteIt is nice to look back. I should set aside 10 minutes a week to look at 10 year old photos. The photo of sunflower is very good.
ReplyDeleteOften the old images bring memories flooding back.
DeleteI'm one who hasn't got a clue of how to organize digital photos.
ReplyDeleteI created folders for each year so at least I know which year the pictures were taken in. That's a good start I think.
DeleteLovely photos. My own files are in a bit of a mess. I started out well, but then there were a few I hadn't sorted, then a few more and you know how that ends. Mostly I have them in folders labelled by year, then in sub folders labelled by month. After that it's anyone's guess as to where I put that photo of the (whatever it is I'm looking for).
ReplyDeleteAt least you have a semblance of order about your photo folders River.
DeleteAlthough I can (and do) store mine digitally , I still take printed copies. I've got scrapbooks going back from the present to 50 years ago and can flick through them when I am searching for one in particular. I use Snapfish or Bonusprint and take advantage of their cheap offers to get a batch of the year's photos printed. .
ReplyDeleteThere are months in which I might take a thousand pictures. I would be bankrupt if I printed them all off ADDY. However, I do think that Snapfish give good service re. printing. Very efficient.
DeleteAll these photos are great, but my favorite are the sunflowers. It reminds me of the Van Gogh exhibit I went to this past weekend....so many sunflower paintings! :)
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