Thread: Family photos

All up about 500... were pretty sad at capturing that sort of stuff.

My wife spent at least 12 months, probably longer scanning pictures, slides cd's etc. and putting them on varies assortments of digital systems such as removable hard drives, hard drives, laptops, thumb drives, dvd's etc. and then sharing amounst family and friend.
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blaze

My wife started a business teaching people how to catalogue, tag, and use their photos. All digital I'm afraid, not with film.

I was looking over her shoulder and saw the number 1,450 next to the name of one of our boys. 'Is that how many photos we have of him?' 'No, that's how many photos we took of him last MONTH!'

She spends a LOT of time dealing with photos. Well over 150,000 on separate hard drives.

Bloody hell....

I had a small business that included a photographic minilab between 1986 and 1999. Naturally we went crazy with family photo's, I have never counted them but there are boxes and boxes full of photo's in our garage.
Now that I have semi-retired, I will have to sort and catalogue them, will be a HUGE job.

I've been working on my slides, and negatives, and my father's and mother's negatives for years - and I think there are more to do than I have done. And then their are my late wife's, her sister's and her father's, grandfather's great-uncle's etc. (A few go back to the nineteenth century, and a quite a few from the 1920s when my mother got her first camera.)

John

I will ask, because I believe it will be a great discussion...

Why so many photos? And why all kept archived or in boxes etc..
How often do you visit the boxes?

To give an example - my wedding album has been opened once.....
The kids baby photos have been boxed up for 15+ years...

I was taught whilst studying Photography to cull with prejudice quality photos and all that.
Is it a legacy behaviour that we collect images to never look at them again?

I understand capturing the highlights - people, faces, places...

But 50 pics of The lad kicking a football, taking a step etc isn't something I understand... a couple of great shots showing the same would suffice. Would it not?