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| Somewhere in Central Newfoundland |
Have I complained about this before? My Lightroom catalogue is large and it isn't easy to find things. Most everything is organised by date, but for long periods of time I only gave photographs a serial number based on the date it was made. Film scans didn't always have even that. 00004.jpg seems to be a common file name.
So I've allotted a year (ha-ha) to go through more than fourteen thousand pictures and add descriptive file names, titles, captions, and keywords. Depending on the photo. A descriptive file name including a date at the least. I started with the earliest photo I have, a picture of my father as a boy with his grandfather holding up some trout they've caught. That would be in the nineteen-fifties. I'm currently working on the year 2005. After months of going through pictures. And I didn't start photography as a serious hobby until late in that year or perhaps early the next year. Most of the work is still ahead of me . . .
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| Hahoe Mask Festival, 2005. Nikon FM3a (I think) |
I sometimes envy people who take all their pictures with their phones and then let Apple Photos or Google Photos take care of arranging everything. Many such services these days offer searches that use facial recognition and AI rather than manually entered keywords and captions. How nice it would be to click away, delete mistakes, and not worry about how to find the pictures later.
That first shot obviously has a lot of importance for you. These are great to have.
ReplyDeleteLove the second one - I quite often look at peoples hands (especially at our country shows) but rarely (never!) have the courage to ask to photograph them.
I am usually extremely shy about photographing people, but this guy was sort of on display so I went ahead.
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