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The lament of collecting something of great personal value, which is of value to no one else, reminds me of my photo collection: over 100,000 photos taken over
by kylec 2y ago
The lament of collecting something of great personal value, which is of value to no one else, reminds me of my photo collection: over 100,000 photos taken over decades, which I absolutely cherish, that are completely worthless to anyone but me, or the people contained within them (who I have usually already shared the relevant photos with). Perhaps it's no accident that the common term for a personal collection of photos is a photo library.
- niemandhier 2y agoYou never know. When an old neighbour passed away his kids gave us his prized collection of photographic slides. Images he had taken over course of 30+ years as a construction engineer working all over the world. Those were beautiful images of countries that do not exist anymore, at some point we realised that he had spent a lot of time building underground concrete structures in the Middle East and handed the images over to a nice gentile man at the local military base. Maybe they were useful maybe not, but at least they were looked at again.