we take entirely too many photos

[gabester]

Don C wrote:
One thing to remember in the culling process is WHOSE memories are being preserved.

We were cleaning the house of a very dear friend who'd died... discarded... slides... her history and memories, not ours.

Kids sorting through (or not) your photos will face the same thing. Do they know, or value, the people and places represented?

I was originally going to respond to this thread with the idea that if you put all the pictures "in the cloud" - sans truly personal ones and/or ones you can readily identify as utter crap - the "intelligence of the crowd" or at least people's intrinsic voyeurism ought to solve some of this problem for you.

I can't bring myself to go through our photos... but I'll spend hours looking at other peoples! Then again, I suppose I'm mostly talking about well-curated collections on FaceBook or Flickr or in blogs.

But the point you raise is very valid; to some extent a photo in many cases has very personal meaning and context. Me, I always snap several because it's difficult to tell at a glance on a phone-sized screen whether I got the shot. Looking back on older vacations and the like I'm surprised to discover that while I've seen my favorite shots at the time with some frequency due to rotation through a photo library screensaver, the "almost as good" ones seem more meaningful now, the sort of secret behind-the-scenes that didn't make the cut...

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