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Once a year, before christmas, you chose about a hundred of the best photos, print them in a beautiful album, send copies to your grandmothers, and delete the r

Once a year, before christmas, you chose about a hundred of the best photos, print them in a beautiful album, send copies to your grandmothers, and delete the rest.

Fnoord 7y ago
I love this approach. It features (with some overlaps): 1) Less is more. 2) Data hygiene. 3) Present for grandfather/grandmother/family. The problem is that the more photos you made, the more difficult it becomes to pick a hundred. We leave behind so much data trails every day, including data which is no longer relevant. We constantly have to decide which data we keep or 'consume'. The problem is only becoming worse throughout the years (in history). Data is more easily available, and more easily able to be made (or fabricated!) now than 50 years ago.
tonyedgecombe 7y ago
I've had a policy of keeping one photo a day and discarding the rest for some time now. It's quite freeing to not have to worry about keeping a huge digital archive.
- dewey 7y ago
  In times where storage space is cheap is there really a difference between keeping one picture safe or keeping 100 safe? If you can keep one safe, you can keep 1000s safe with the same kind of process.
  - enriquto 7y ago
    But how can you keep even a single picture safe? Are you able to read today any of your files from 20 years ago? Not in a theoretical sense.
    - dewey 7y ago
      I was mostly referring to the previous comment about only keeping one picture and not a huge archive. But I don’t see a problem opening images from 20 years ago. If you are worried just keep a jpeg or raw viewer app in the archive too. Worst case there will probably be emulators to run an ancient OS where your image viewer works and you can convert your images.
  - tonyedgecombe 7y ago
    I think there is, my wife's photo archive has 30,000 images. Too big to zip up and put in an email, too big to put on a cheap USB stick, too big to quickly upload to S3, too big to properly catalogue and index, too big to really appreciate. Less is more.

Once a year, before christmas, you chose about a hundred of the best photos, print them in a beautiful album, send copies to your grandmothers, and delete the rest.

Fnoord 7y ago

I love this approach. It features (with some overlaps): 1) Less is more. 2) Data hygiene. 3) Present for grandfather/grandmother/family. The problem is that the more photos you made, the more difficult it becomes to pick a hundred. We leave behind so much data trails every day, including data which is no longer relevant. We constantly have to decide which data we keep or 'consume'. The problem is only becoming worse throughout the years (in history). Data is more easily available, and more easily able to be made (or fabricated!) now than 50 years ago.

tonyedgecombe 7y ago

I've had a policy of keeping one photo a day and discarding the rest for some time now. It's quite freeing to not have to worry about keeping a huge digital archive.

dewey 7y ago
In times where storage space is cheap is there really a difference between keeping one picture safe or keeping 100 safe? If you can keep one safe, you can keep 1000s safe with the same kind of process.
- enriquto 7y ago
  But how can you keep even a single picture safe? Are you able to read today any of your files from 20 years ago? Not in a theoretical sense.
  - dewey 7y ago
    I was mostly referring to the previous comment about only keeping one picture and not a huge archive. But I don’t see a problem opening images from 20 years ago. If you are worried just keep a jpeg or raw viewer app in the archive too. Worst case there will probably be emulators to run an ancient OS where your image viewer works and you can convert your images.
- tonyedgecombe 7y ago
  I think there is, my wife's photo archive has 30,000 images. Too big to zip up and put in an email, too big to put on a cheap USB stick, too big to quickly upload to S3, too big to properly catalogue and index, too big to really appreciate. Less is more.