Designated beneficiary for photos
Dec 16, 2022 12:40:12 #
JohnSwanda wrote:
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Dec 16, 2022 12:52:44 #
Dec 16, 2022 13:07:01 #
My thought on this subject?
Who gives a crap about it?
I'll be dead.
Unless one asks about it, your 'work' it will go into digital ashes. Less than 1% of all images are saved and we have to be thankful for that. Can you imagine the hassle if all images were saved???
Who gives a crap about it?
I'll be dead.
Unless one asks about it, your 'work' it will go into digital ashes. Less than 1% of all images are saved and we have to be thankful for that. Can you imagine the hassle if all images were saved???
Dec 16, 2022 13:33:23 #
gvarner
Loc: Central Oregon Coast
bsprague wrote:
My family doesn't pay much attention to my photography while I'm alive. Why would they suddenly care when I drop dead?
That’s for you to determine.
Dec 16, 2022 13:36:49 #
gvarner
Loc: Central Oregon Coast
Rongnongno wrote:
My thought on this subject?
Who gives a crap about it?
I'll be dead.
Unless one asks about it, your 'work' it will go into digital ashes. Less than 1% of all images are saved and we have to be thankful for that. Can you imagine the hassle if all images were saved???
Who gives a crap about it?
I'll be dead.
Unless one asks about it, your 'work' it will go into digital ashes. Less than 1% of all images are saved and we have to be thankful for that. Can you imagine the hassle if all images were saved???
You mean there’s no digital photo heaven in the sky where all photos go to sit beside the camera that took them? How could that be?
Dec 16, 2022 14:01:49 #
gvarner wrote:
You mean there’s no digital photo heaven in the sky where all photos go to sit beside the camera that took them? How could that be?
Have you heard about Santa and Rudolf yet ? Make sure to be sitting down when you check that one out :-)
This thread likely belongs in the Chitchat section anywho. It has zilcho relation to actual photography.
Dec 16, 2022 15:22:41 #
goldenyears
Loc: Lake Osewgo
I have two archives on separate external drives... one with 50,000+ airplane images, and the other with 22,000+ personal images and documents. The personal images and documents will go to our kids to sort out. The vast majority will be of no interest. The airplane archive will go to the co-owner and researcher for the planes pictured on 1000aircraftphotos.com. I also have to look into how to keep the aviation site live in perpetuity.
Dec 16, 2022 15:30:50 #
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This thread likely belongs in the Chitchat section anywho. It has zilcho relation to actual photography.
This thread likely belongs in the Chitchat section anywho. It has zilcho relation to actual photography.
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Dec 16, 2022 17:01:17 #
This is MORBID 
However, my great concern is that after my demise, my family will be burdened with a massive hoard of photography stuff. I mean, I'm still alive and am beginning to get tired of looking at it all and trying to keep its storage form preventing our home from becoming unfit for human habitation!
So, being an old guy with a gray beard and realizing that will I eventually end up in the cemetery, I have slowly but surely begun the purge the junk pile.
As for the images, I will make about 50 prints of my favorite images and leave them to my family. Some files will end up in the recycling bin and others will be electronically stored.
Legally speaking, that's what a last will and testament are for I think I may have one filed away someplace!
Legacy? Come on, who am I, Ansil Adams, Richard Avadon, Weegee, or something?
I do, however, have the engraving on my tombstone specified- "I told y'all I was sick"!
However, my great concern is that after my demise, my family will be burdened with a massive hoard of photography stuff. I mean, I'm still alive and am beginning to get tired of looking at it all and trying to keep its storage form preventing our home from becoming unfit for human habitation!
So, being an old guy with a gray beard and realizing that will I eventually end up in the cemetery, I have slowly but surely begun the purge the junk pile.
As for the images, I will make about 50 prints of my favorite images and leave them to my family. Some files will end up in the recycling bin and others will be electronically stored.
Legally speaking, that's what a last will and testament are for I think I may have one filed away someplace!
Legacy? Come on, who am I, Ansil Adams, Richard Avadon, Weegee, or something?
I do, however, have the engraving on my tombstone specified- "I told y'all I was sick"!
Dec 16, 2022 20:24:52 #
gvarner wrote:
Does anyone have a designated beneficiary for thei... (show quote)
Don't know, won't care.
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Dec 17, 2022 05:24:08 #
pauldh
Loc: Melbourne, Australia
Apart from archiving photographs to be passed on. I have family photographs taken in the late 1800's of a large family group but there's no one alive to identify anyone in the photograph which is a shame making the photograph meaningless. The point I am making it would be handy to have captions embedded in the photos with exif metadata. A tedious task at best probably impractical too.
Dec 17, 2022 07:20:04 #
gvarner wrote:
Does anyone have a designated beneficiary for thei... (show quote)
No specific beneficiary.
Nearly all my photos are worthless to anyone but me.
I am not so narcissistic as to think otherwise.
Photos of family get distributed immediately so those that want to keep them do so.
No one will care about or even bother going through 10s of thousands BIF that all look like the same thing over and over.
Dec 17, 2022 07:50:23 #
E.L.. Shapiro wrote:
This is MORBID
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Not morbid, called planning (thinking) ahead.
Or maybe if you are thinking that no one may be interested in having all those pictures being morbid.
But after you cross over, I don't think you'll be too worried about it.
Dec 17, 2022 07:52:45 #
I was expressing these same concerns to my neighbor. I have thousands of prints, negatives and slides that date back 50+ years. Plus about 20,000 digital images. My son doesn’t have any interest in them, though he might when I’m gone. So, what to do? My neighbor says to not worry, nobody beside me cares about them anyway. So, why worry?
Maybe a project for winter… parse the piles!
Maybe a project for winter… parse the piles!
Dec 17, 2022 08:02:55 #
Longshadow wrote:
That will work only if the recipient in XX years will have a CD/DVD drive in/on their computer.
Otherwise they will have to purchase an external drive.
Our new laptops have no internal CD. I purchased an external.
Low probability my kids will have a CD drive on their computer...
Then, one would have to keep creating new CDs for all the recent photos after the initial burn.
Otherwise they will have to purchase an external drive.
Our new laptops have no internal CD. I purchased an external.
Low probability my kids will have a CD drive on their computer...
Then, one would have to keep creating new CDs for all the recent photos after the initial burn.
The basketball photos that I give to the local college were on DVDs two years ago with no problems. This year the first two games I shot I put on DVD also. Come to find out there are no DVD drives in any of the college's current computers. I ended up buying some inexpensive USB flashdrives from Amazon to use. CD/DVD drives are on their way to wherever the floppy drive went.
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