we take entirely too many photos

[mrbigstuff]

I was sorting through the family batch of photos when I was a youngster. The first thing that amazed me is that the color has held up reasonably well and that the photos with white borders look instantly better regardless of composition when compared with borderless. But, the biggest thing that occurred to me is that there are maybe 1000-1500 prints in total, documenting many sides of the family and in multiple locations and spanning probably two decades. How many of you just shot 500 digital pics on your last vacation? I am guessing more than a few. Who the hell is going to edit these things? In addition to leaving our kids tons of household junk (in their opinion, I am sure) we are now leaving them with thousands upon thousands of photos to sort through. It's probably ridiculous to try to get people *not* to take the photos in the first place, but I'm now thinking that I will print some of the best photos and start a "synopsis" version of my kids' time rather than try to make sense of this big mess of digital images in any meaningful way. Maybe even put them in an album.

What is old is new again.




incidentally, my childhood photos are kept in an archival brown paper supermarket bag.