Catalog

I have 104,403 photos in my photo library catalog. That is the majority, but it isn’t all of them. Invariably, there are a few thousand floating in folders that have not yet been imported.

I often ask myself, what good do all of these photographs do? What will become of all of my efforts to organize, back-up, meta tags and color correct them when I’m gone? Who will care?

So, as happens as more often than not, I find myself at the end of the month trying to fulfill my self-inflicted mandate to post at least once to each section of this website. It also usually happens that on countless nights, as I struggle to sleep, my mind will race with endless musings and prospective blog posts. Invariably, these ideas either fail to come to me as I sit to write or they feel outdated or two unwieldy and time consuming to commit to pixels.

Writing a journal / blog, is a bit like always answering the question a friend or acquaintance might ask you, “What’s new?” … (MIND BLANKS)… “Ummmmmmm… Nothiiiiiing…What’s new with you?”

My frequent fallback position is to dig through my photos for inspiration or at least a nice image that I can quickly post. Today was one of those days.

But for my public facing portion of this site, (“WorldView”), I have a lot of ‘rules’ that I have made up for myself: chiefly around privacy. That means that I generally won’t post photos of myself, people in my life, or details about where I live. That eliminate a LOT of interesting photos as possible sources of posts.

However, as I scrolled through my photos, feeling that I didn’t have much to say, I was once again surprised by all of the pictures on my phone alone. In just the last few months since I last cleared it, there were so many little moments of life captured: vacations, animals, work, meals, landscapes, activities… So many incidental instances that are so easily lost in the fog of living and yet, which comprise the best of life itself.

And that’s just on my phone… Scrolling through my photo library leaves me with a deep feeling that I have lived a lot.

So, I suppose, that at least, is reason enough for the photos and a good enough post for another month.