St3v3M Loc: 35,000 feet

creativ simon Loc: Coulsdon, South London

I agree why delete memories, in latter years we may need these to trigger our brain back into action. I thing that worries me is the lack of printing with 1000's of images locked in a computer or hard drive which nobody else can access and on our passing will be lost forever.

jadeast Loc: Virginia

I have a hard enough time finding the space to put the good stuff, why would I want to keep the junk and crap on my reputation

St3v3M Loc: 35,000 feet

Why do you photograph junk and crap?

jadeast Loc: Virginia

Those that can do and those that can't post links and ask dumb questions

St3v3M Loc: 35,000 feet

This site is meant to help people not be negative. Happy New Year!

jadeast Loc: Virginia

You twist what I wrote and now you're lecturing me about playing nice?

mtnredhed Loc: The part of NorCal that doesn't move

This has been bugging me since digital went consumer and I don't know a solution. I took boxes of old pics from our families going back to the 1920's. Scanned, fixed, ID'ed, and put into a slide show CD. It was HUGE for the family, old and young. Took the better part of the summer, BUT they were all there.

So many of these same type of pictures showing real life at the time will very likely end up lost on crashed drives, failed phones, social media sites that come and go. I really do wonder if 50 years from now, our kid's kids are going to wonder what happened. We may end up with a better record of the 1950's than we do of this decade.

I have two "classes" of photos. Snapshots and formal work. I have very different standards for the two, and edit the formal work (read as delete anything that isn't a long term keeper). Even the snapshots get the treatment periodically.