curious--how many do you actually print?

I keep A4 portfolios of my best work and A3+ prints of my "even bester". I suppose I've got about 200 prints at A4, maybe more, and about 20 A3+ prints.

I also have a number of "water related" images on permanent display at the sailing school.

I recently read an article bemoaning the fact that so few images make it into print these days. It claimed Historians of the future might struggle to find the sort of pictures they want. Shots that show real life in real places, not posed, not specially lit and typically in a High Street near you. In other words, Street Photography, which I admit I'm not into.

However it's not a new phenomena. I asked my Father for the original negative of a 1953 shot he wanted me to work on. He looked at me as though I was mad! Apparently the negatives went into the dustbin in 1953.

Lowner wrote in post #8454442
I recently read an article bemoaning the fact that so few images make it into print these days. It claimed Historians of the future might struggle to find the sort of pictures they want. Shots that show real life in real places, not posed, not specially lit and typically in a High Street near you. In other words, Street Photography, which I admit I'm not into.

Last night I posted a photo in the "Rebel XSi / 450D Users Unite" thread, and I was a bit embarrassed. It wasn't perfect. I shot it in a museum under terrible lighting conditions that, even after corrections, yielded an image I expected to get ripped apart. It didn't, thank goodness, but it *was* inconsistent with recent photos in the thread. It wasn't perfect.

To me it was a shot that required a lot of work to get. I had to know the camera, and I had to know how to postprocess it to make it usable. The only thing posed in the photo was the t-rex. Everything else was just the flow of people in the museum. I was absolutely amazed the camera could do so well in such poor lighting.

It would be cool to take photos of hot models (well, cool for me anyway; my wife might say otherwise) and perfect scenes. I have to take what I can get. Mostly it works.

I am an old fogey in my 60's so that may be why I print quite a few of mine, to me photography means making photographs. I have books full of 6X9's and walls full of framed and matted prints. Plus boxes (acid free or the boxes paper came in) full of various size prints. I bought my own matt cutting equipment and buy matt board in bulk, save me a bunch. I also save a lot of images I don't print on external HD's.