I think it’s no secret that I take a lot of photos. Some have bandied the word “compulsive” about, but I think that’s excessive. The area where I seem to lack is editing and uploading these photos. As prolific as I may seem, the amount of images I’ve posted online completely pales in comparison to the amount of photos I actually take.
The other night, I felt the need to go through every single page of my Flickr photostream, looking back at all the images I’ve uploaded to that account since April of 2005. This kind of activity lends itself to analyzing one’s life in that time, and I was startled at how much seemed to be missing.
Then I realized: it was. Lots of it. Thousands of photos from Costa Rica, Hawaii, Italy, the summer I lived abroad, and so on. Whenever I have a large batch of photos to go through, I fret over editing them down to a manageable set, dream about setting up a travel photo website, and rarely end up posting a single one.
I decided it was high time to start posting my travel photos, and I made a Travel collectionto that end.
The state of my brain this week has been ideal for the repetitive, nostalgic task of photo-editing and I’ve finally uploaded my photos from this summer’s trip to Italy. Well, the first two weeks of it at least.
These are huge (no really, huge) sets, and they are not yet organized or properly captioned. I hope you’ll forgive my enthusiasm and appreciate that this is still only a fraction of the photos my mother and I took.
– Milan
– Padua
– Assisi
– Pisa
And as a bonus, I added a set of images from my second two weeks in Volterra. It’s nowhere near all the images from that trip, either, but I’ll get to them.
– Volterra
I went through the external hard drive on which I back up my photos, and I would be lying if I said I weren’t daunted by the task of editing the rest. This is a start, at least, and I hope I don’t wait another few years before I get to the rest.
I think one of my new year’s resolutions is going to be to actually post photos when I take them. We’ll see how I feel once I’ve finished this backlog.
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