For all that Richard may jeer at my methods of organizing my digital photos, I’m happy with them for now. One of the ways I deal with the steadily accumulating data is to go back to “this date” a year ago, two years ago, etc, and see what has been left unprocessed.
One year ago…
…I was first getting to know my friend Laura. This photo gives me a strong sense of nostalgia. I miss her. She lives just 0.8 miles from me.
Two years ago I was in the midst of a year-long photography project, shooting the garden of my friend Janna.
Three years ago, Jen and Eric and Sylwia stopped by our house in Eastlake on their way to a Halloween party, before Richard and I had left for our party.
I am glad I have my camera, because there is so much I wouldn’t remember without it. Not all things are worth remembering, but because I take pharmaceuticals that mess with my memory (and my brain doesn’t remember things normally anyway), I am afraid of losing the important things. If I can’t remember the bad parts, will the good parts be as good? If I can’t remember the good parts, will I have the presence of mind to pass through the bad parts? If I can’t remember anything at all, how can I be someone? How will I explain myself to people? This is why I covet my photographs.
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Photo time-travel! What a neat idea. I need to find a lovely yet efficient way to organize my crap too …
Ha, good luck with that. Richard would probably tell you to use Aperture. I say, that is newfangled.
The way I organize my photos is by uploading them into a directory named after the current date. Yes, that means I have like, 2305203 directories, but… I like it. I like it, okay Richard???
Honestly, no organization would be possible at all if it weren’t for my anal retentive practices on flickr. I suppose that’s *really* how I organize my photos.
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