I’ve begun going through our massive photo collection & pulling things out of circulation. One can really only so many pictures of the same building, you know? So, how do you manage 39,000 photos?
In our case, it’s pretty simple, in a way. If it’s not a meaningful picture – doesn’t say something important, make us remember someone or something important – then it gets made private. That means, of course, that I’ve got to look at every single photo along the way.
So I downloaded them and am working my way through alphabetically. I’ve just made it through Charing Cross. Yes, the lighting all looks like this. Doesn’t mercury vapor provide a nice ambience? /sarcasm
Charing Cross is basically where we spent most of our time in Glasgow, simply because it’s in the middle of everything. It’s also a sort of weird place where people would ask for me to take their picture. They didn’t really even want to see the picture. Just to be photographed was enough.
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Of course, for me it was also a great place for selfies, as there’s a building which spans the motorway there which has mirrored windows. I’d quite often end up stopped there & would say hello, as it were. Have a wee look around at the street view map.
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Not quite the standard mirror-selfies. I’m sure I’ll find more along the way.
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Every time I start to consider weeding through our collection of thousands of photos (even more *since* Glasgow… The kids will do a number on you!), or my huge backlog of emails, I remember our conversation in the computer lab, my last summer there, about your research in what information people choose to retain on their computers. I think to myself, do I really need all this? Are we not just burdening ourselves and our children by keeping it all? Then I get overwhelmed by the scope of the project and leave it all for another day.