Comic Strip Cathy With Digital Wo's

Today 8-10-06, Cathy, the comic strip, was really funny because it touched a nerve for me.

Cathy (looking at her laptop with her husband behind her): "Every picture we've taken since we got our digital camera is dumped in there, Iving!"

Irving (covering his eyes): "Don't Look!"

Kathy (covering her eyes): "3000 unrotated, unedited, un-red-eyed, unprinted images!"

Irving (still covering his eyes): "Not looking! Not looking! Not looking!"

Author's comment: "New World of Photography, Same Old Problem."

Author's comment: "Subjects keep shutting their eyes."

Kathy & Irving (walking away and covering their eyes): "Walk away and it will go back to sleep!"

I must have 10,000 captures I haven't done anything with.

HOW MANY IMAGES DO YOU HAVE LURKING IN YOUR COMPUTER UNEDITED AND UNPRINTED?

Well, I'm not that bad, but I do keep a lot of shots that I should just throw away.

Mark

My backlog is 6 months. I delete non keepers and print all keepers.

I have 180,000 images on three sets of RAID disks across two computers. Even I am amazed that I can find almost anything pretty quickly but that is mostly because I shot a fairly narrow range of easily organized subject matter.

I go back and find stuff I totally forgot I photographed sometimes... it's easier now that I have them backed up online and tagged but I still do get surprises whenever I go through and back the good ones up externally