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When you get older, the photos aren’t for you, they’re for the descendants of you and your siblings, and their communities during funerals etc. It sounds like

When you get older, the photos aren’t for you, they’re for the descendants of you and your siblings, and their communities during funerals etc. It sounds like you needed a healthy correction from too much sharing and organizing, but just a few shots will be treasured.

rolisz 2y ago
Come on, my grandkids won't sift through 200GB of photos. They'll look at 10-100 at most and then get bored.
- kshacker 2y ago
  AI will do it for them.
  - cstrat 2y ago
    You can already see this in action - I love when my iPhone brings up those little curated albums from events or people. I can only imagine how much better those will become with more and more photos and better intelligence.
    - dleink 2y ago
      Here's what grandpa and your uncle did 60 years today!
      - joshstrange 2y ago
        I don’t know if you’re joking or being serious but I think that would be really cool.
      - arrowleaf 2y ago
        I would absolutely love this!
- disiplus 2y ago
  the thing that changes is when you get kids. I take a lot of photos of them and love it when google photos reminds me daily about them. but even that changes as they get older, the frequency goes down.
- tuatoru 2y ago
  future historians would like to, though. That's why it's important to document your house and your town (all of it, not just the glamorous bits), rather than travelling to exotic locations to take photos like some lame "influencer".
alecco 2y ago
Grandkids will probably be able to make a VR reconstruction from a couple of bad photos.
flakeoil 2y ago
I doubt that the descendants will be that interested to be honest. It's not like we today pour over the images that exist of our parents and grandparents. Having thousands upon thousands of images to look at does not make it better. It's nice to have a couple from each year maybe, but the huge amount of pics we have today is just ruining the experience and value of the pics somehow. As they are stored somewhere digital on a device or cloud makes them also somehow less accessible even though technically they are more accessible. If they lay around in an album on a coffee table or a book shelf makes them more visible. It makes it also a nice way of talking about the pictures with friends or relatives when someone pics up the album.
- prepend 2y ago
  > It's not like we today pour over the images that exist of our parents and grandparents. I do this. And I look over these pictures to get a sense of what their life was like. And where they lived. I found a small book of photos of my great grandfather and his family and they really made me happy to see. We might not want to look at photos right now. But photos aren’t everyday items, they are long tail items. They are used infrequently, but when they are used, their impact is great. Just because I don’t want something right now doesn’t mean I’ll never want it. Or that someone important to me won’t want it.
  - noisy_boy 2y ago
    > I found a small book of photos Thats the key. You would be tired in a while if there was tens of thousands of photos of your grandparents.
    - m4rtink 2y ago
      If there was more material, you could do more with it - create a model of their house using photogrammetry. Create panoramic images if the pictures intersect. Try to spot interesting historical details that might not have seemed significant back then, etc. :) You never know - I had some contact with people gathering old photos and post cards or people trying to piece together what a particular part of the town or their home village looked like say 100 years ago and surprisingly little information is sometimes available.
lm28469 2y ago
That was fun and interesting when your entire grandparents history fitted in a 100 pages album Now that you have 40000 selfies with silly faces and 25000 pictures of burgers it's going to be way less interesting
- leokennis 2y ago
  I take photos liberally. Then on a weekly basis I delete all the duplicates/failed shots/boring photos. And then on a yearly basis I select the ones 10-50 photos that evoke the best memories and emotions. Those 10-50 are the ones that I print and put in a separate album in the photos app to look at regularly. The rest I store “just in case”.
  - figassis 2y ago
    This is probably a great use case for apple intelligence. There are many apps that try to organize your photos. But iOS itself could do that curating, removing duplicate, finding the timeless shots and organizing them into events. It already does something close to this, with Memories. Now we just need it to cleanup. But this might not be an incentive they have bc it will reduce storage needs.
  - jonasdegendt 2y ago
    We do this with the family, come Christmas time when everyone's together, everyone gets to pick 50 to 100 pictures to cast to the Apple TV and go over each picture. It's a lot of fun seeing people's highlight of the year. We may need to revise the 100 picture limit because as the family grows it's getting a bit long for one sitting :^)
  - throw0101b 2y ago
    > And then on a yearly basis I select the ones 10-50 photos that evoke the best memories and emotions. Picking 1 photo per week could be a good base to aim for. A slice of daily/weekly life. Then perhaps a few more photos for each special event where lots of folks get together: birthdays, holidays, births/deaths, weddings, graduations, etc. Probably end up with <100 photos, and if you print US 4x6/EU A6, probably fit in one album.
futureshock 2y ago
I think that for every deceased family member there’s one random photo in a frame somewhere in the house. We have piles and piles of old photo albums from family that has passed. Those will never get looked at again. Photos are incredibly devalued now.
- supplied_demand 2y ago
  I go through a large box of photos of my dead mother at least once a year. It helps keep her alive in the minds of my young sons who never got to meet her.

rolisz 2y ago

Come on, my grandkids won't sift through 200GB of photos. They'll look at 10-100 at most and then get bored.

kshacker 2y ago
AI will do it for them.
- cstrat 2y ago
  You can already see this in action - I love when my iPhone brings up those little curated albums from events or people. I can only imagine how much better those will become with more and more photos and better intelligence.
  - dleink 2y ago
    Here's what grandpa and your uncle did 60 years today!
    - joshstrange 2y ago
      I don’t know if you’re joking or being serious but I think that would be really cool.
    - arrowleaf 2y ago
      I would absolutely love this!
disiplus 2y ago
the thing that changes is when you get kids. I take a lot of photos of them and love it when google photos reminds me daily about them. but even that changes as they get older, the frequency goes down.
tuatoru 2y ago
future historians would like to, though. That's why it's important to document your house and your town (all of it, not just the glamorous bits), rather than travelling to exotic locations to take photos like some lame "influencer".

alecco 2y ago

Grandkids will probably be able to make a VR reconstruction from a couple of bad photos.

flakeoil 2y ago

I doubt that the descendants will be that interested to be honest. It's not like we today pour over the images that exist of our parents and grandparents. Having thousands upon thousands of images to look at does not make it better. It's nice to have a couple from each year maybe, but the huge amount of pics we have today is just ruining the experience and value of the pics somehow. As they are stored somewhere digital on a device or cloud makes them also somehow less accessible even though technically they are more accessible. If they lay around in an album on a coffee table or a book shelf makes them more visible. It makes it also a nice way of talking about the pictures with friends or relatives when someone pics up the album.

prepend 2y ago
> It's not like we today pour over the images that exist of our parents and grandparents. I do this. And I look over these pictures to get a sense of what their life was like. And where they lived. I found a small book of photos of my great grandfather and his family and they really made me happy to see. We might not want to look at photos right now. But photos aren’t everyday items, they are long tail items. They are used infrequently, but when they are used, their impact is great. Just because I don’t want something right now doesn’t mean I’ll never want it. Or that someone important to me won’t want it.
- noisy_boy 2y ago
  > I found a small book of photos Thats the key. You would be tired in a while if there was tens of thousands of photos of your grandparents.
  - m4rtink 2y ago
    If there was more material, you could do more with it - create a model of their house using photogrammetry. Create panoramic images if the pictures intersect. Try to spot interesting historical details that might not have seemed significant back then, etc. :) You never know - I had some contact with people gathering old photos and post cards or people trying to piece together what a particular part of the town or their home village looked like say 100 years ago and surprisingly little information is sometimes available.

lm28469 2y ago

That was fun and interesting when your entire grandparents history fitted in a 100 pages album Now that you have 40000 selfies with silly faces and 25000 pictures of burgers it's going to be way less interesting

leokennis 2y ago
I take photos liberally. Then on a weekly basis I delete all the duplicates/failed shots/boring photos. And then on a yearly basis I select the ones 10-50 photos that evoke the best memories and emotions. Those 10-50 are the ones that I print and put in a separate album in the photos app to look at regularly. The rest I store “just in case”.
- figassis 2y ago
  This is probably a great use case for apple intelligence. There are many apps that try to organize your photos. But iOS itself could do that curating, removing duplicate, finding the timeless shots and organizing them into events. It already does something close to this, with Memories. Now we just need it to cleanup. But this might not be an incentive they have bc it will reduce storage needs.
- jonasdegendt 2y ago
  We do this with the family, come Christmas time when everyone's together, everyone gets to pick 50 to 100 pictures to cast to the Apple TV and go over each picture. It's a lot of fun seeing people's highlight of the year. We may need to revise the 100 picture limit because as the family grows it's getting a bit long for one sitting :^)
- throw0101b 2y ago
  > And then on a yearly basis I select the ones 10-50 photos that evoke the best memories and emotions. Picking 1 photo per week could be a good base to aim for. A slice of daily/weekly life. Then perhaps a few more photos for each special event where lots of folks get together: birthdays, holidays, births/deaths, weddings, graduations, etc. Probably end up with <100 photos, and if you print US 4x6/EU A6, probably fit in one album.

futureshock 2y ago

I think that for every deceased family member there’s one random photo in a frame somewhere in the house. We have piles and piles of old photo albums from family that has passed. Those will never get looked at again. Photos are incredibly devalued now.

supplied_demand 2y ago
I go through a large box of photos of my dead mother at least once a year. It helps keep her alive in the minds of my young sons who never got to meet her.