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> I can find better images online. This can bite in several ways. The main one: the online images are not mine, so if I was to use or share them for any reas

> I can find better images online. This can bite in several ways. The main one: the online images are not mine, so if I was to use or share them for any reason I might not be able to. Another is that after a trip, you won’t start googling for every place you liked and download, archive and perhaps geotag them to have them in your collection. At least I don’t know anyone doing that. Related to that, they probably won’t have the metadata you really want, like the date of your trip, which is often the best way to find back a photo of a place you remember having visited during a trip.

hackernewds 5y ago
So interesting to read the psychology behind this. Some of the photos taking has been linked to mild hoarding - similar to why we save links (on HNs as well) in hindsight to never look into it again. Gives us both a sense of ownership + FOMO > the online images are not mine, so if was to use or share them for any reason might not be able to. Why is this so?
- makeitdouble 5y ago
  There is definitely a hoarding part, the saving grace being that taking and storing dozens of thousands of pictures doesn't cost much nor incur severe penalties compared to the IRL counterpart. On looking back at pictures, people have wildly different relations with the pics they take, for me it's in lieu of a diary and I'll look at series from a specific time frame, and not individual "favorited" photos like some people do. In that respect it's hard to tell beforehand which pictures will be meaningful after 10 years, but it still feels worth to have the whole complete stream. > Why is this so? If I was asked for a photo of some place for a middle school handmade newspaper, I'd hate to have to check what's the licenses on the photos from the net and read 20 pages of legalese in the case it falls under a commercial use because they sell the paper 50 cents a unit. Or if I were to use one on a freelance blog, etc. It's not a rational calculation, just the comfort of not having to care at all about who took the shot, for what purpose and audience etc. and just use pictures I like for whatever, wherever I want.

hackernewds 5y ago

So interesting to read the psychology behind this. Some of the photos taking has been linked to mild hoarding - similar to why we save links (on HNs as well) in hindsight to never look into it again. Gives us both a sense of ownership + FOMO > the online images are not mine, so if was to use or share them for any reason might not be able to. Why is this so?

makeitdouble 5y ago
There is definitely a hoarding part, the saving grace being that taking and storing dozens of thousands of pictures doesn't cost much nor incur severe penalties compared to the IRL counterpart. On looking back at pictures, people have wildly different relations with the pics they take, for me it's in lieu of a diary and I'll look at series from a specific time frame, and not individual "favorited" photos like some people do. In that respect it's hard to tell beforehand which pictures will be meaningful after 10 years, but it still feels worth to have the whole complete stream. > Why is this so? If I was asked for a photo of some place for a middle school handmade newspaper, I'd hate to have to check what's the licenses on the photos from the net and read 20 pages of legalese in the case it falls under a commercial use because they sell the paper 50 cents a unit. Or if I were to use one on a freelance blog, etc. It's not a rational calculation, just the comfort of not having to care at all about who took the shot, for what purpose and audience etc. and just use pictures I like for whatever, wherever I want.