Posted by John Robinson on November 17, 2008 at 6:20 PM
I've just been doing a back up and tidy up, on two drives. (Using Norton Ghost)
One of these drives is where I keep all my nature stuff. It includes all my bird pictures since I went digital in 2005, and flowers insects, animals, etc ,etc.
There are 22 thousand bird pics,7 thousand animals 5 thousand botanical.
That does not include all the "deletes " over the years, and even the pc foiles have been heavily "thinned "
In all 37 thousand "nature " pics. And then there are 18 thousand colour transparencies in three cabinets.
And when I die- they will all probably go in a bin.
Makes you wonder why we do it ?
Cheers
JohnR
Posted by Tim Gregory on November 17, 2008 at 6:38 PM
I'm sat here right now looking at a 500GB drive, with 2GB remaining... Each time I come back from a session I just dump my cards straight to disk, spool into lightroom and leave the junk.. I really need to have a good clear out.. I'm only 26, so I hate to think what sort of drives and how many pics i'll have before I give up the ghost!
Posted by John Robinson on November 17, 2008 at 6:50 PM
Tim
One thing is - if it wasn't for forums like this one - no one would see many of our pictures. If you can't share your pictures - then theres no point intaking them !!
Think about it .
Cheers
JohnR
Posted by Brian McGeough on November 18, 2008 at 2:31 AM
Yeah but John taking the pictures is a good excuse to sit in a freezing cold hide for 8 hours a day, if we did'nt have a camera with us they would call it camping not photography , and lets face it when we were kids we sat in camo tents with toy guns shooting at anything that moves, no one got shot but we were still happy, we have now just subsituted the gun for a camera, but the fun is still there
Brian
Posted by Rene de Heer on November 18, 2008 at 4:25 AM
Hahaha, i agree John, i have been thinking along the same lines. I do it for myself and if anyone else get some joy out of what i do, then even better!
Rene de Heer
Posted by David Sewell on November 18, 2008 at 5:02 AM
I think Rene is right, I do it for myself, and even if nobody else ever sees the results, I still had fun getting them. I enjoyed the outing, even if the results were a disaster, and there is that occasional sense of smug triumph when it all comes together. Yes, maybe they will all be thrown away when I die, but so what? I have had days and weeks and months of pleasure out of them over the years.
There is only one thing certain when we are all born, and that is that we will all die. Where, how and when is the big mystery. What we do between these events, is what is truly important.
When we die, our family and friends start at our front door and finish at the back door and assess all our possessions or their way through. Is it of any use/value, if the answer is No, then whatever the item is, for the skip or down the charity shop. That is just how it is, and has to be.
As we travel down this road, we call life, there are numerous highlights, and if we are lucky we get interested in a hobby, many don’t, and instead become only interested in work/money, and for me, have paid a very high price as a result.
Thro’ photography I have visited many places which I wouldn’t have done otherwise, and in the process met many people, luckily some of which I can now call “friend”.
For me a hobby, in this case photography, is series of challenges, where I’m attempting to achieve a particular result, an image. If I’m pleased with the end result, that’s great, if someone else is pleased as well, that is a bonus, but not essential.
Just enjoy what you are doing here and now, as one day someone is going to be opening that front door, and that’s is a certainty.
Posted by John Robinson on November 18, 2008 at 11:28 AM
Discussion
8 repliesOne of these drives is where I keep all my nature stuff. It includes all my bird pictures since I went digital in 2005, and flowers insects, animals, etc ,etc.
There are 22 thousand bird pics,7 thousand animals 5 thousand botanical.
That does not include all the "deletes " over the years, and even the pc foiles have been heavily "thinned "
In all 37 thousand "nature " pics. And then there are 18 thousand colour transparencies in three cabinets.
And when I die- they will all probably go in a bin.
Makes you wonder why we do it ?
Cheers
JohnR
One thing is - if it wasn't for forums like this one - no one would see many of our pictures. If you can't share your pictures - then theres no point intaking them !!
Think about it .
Cheers
JohnR
Brian
Rene de Heer
David
Hopefully you do it because you want to as it possibly fulfills some desire/instinct/need to be close to nature and by doing so makes you happy.
T
There is only one thing certain when we are all born, and that is that we will all die. Where, how and when is the big mystery. What we do between these events, is what is truly important.
When we die, our family and friends start at our front door and finish at the back door and assess all our possessions or their way through. Is it of any use/value, if the answer is No, then whatever the item is, for the skip or down the charity shop. That is just how it is, and has to be.
As we travel down this road, we call life, there are numerous highlights, and if we are lucky we get interested in a hobby, many don’t, and instead become only interested in work/money, and for me, have paid a very high price as a result.
Thro’ photography I have visited many places which I wouldn’t have done otherwise, and in the process met many people, luckily some of which I can now call “friend”.
For me a hobby, in this case photography, is series of challenges, where I’m attempting to achieve a particular result, an image. If I’m pleased with the end result, that’s great, if someone else is pleased as well, that is a bonus, but not essential.
Just enjoy what you are doing here and now, as one day someone is going to be opening that front door, and that’s is a certainty.
JR