Jul
19
Cleaning
Filed Under Other, Uncategorized by Jenny Zink Reames
I have spent the last two days cleaning up the external hard drive. It’s kind of embarrassing the stuff I kept on there. Photos out of focus, overexposed, underexposed, or just plain bad photos. I thought about sharing an example with you, but no. Too embarrassing.
I have a tendency to process the photos I like and leave all the RAW files in the folder. Good or bad. They stay in there taking up valuable space until one day I get the crazy idea to clean it up. I then spend a week weeding through files trying to figure out why I even thought that was a good place to take pictures. I mean, who needs 30 pictures of a train going by in front of your car. We have all seen it. Did I really need to take pictures of it?
I need to find a better way of organizing. I need to be brutal about what I keep and what I put in the trash. It is just so hard to trash a photo! I am not a pack rat. You will not walk into my house or studio and find boxes of old shoe string or clothes from high school. I can throw that stuff away without a hint of regret. I was in high school in the 80’s. You can see why I didn’t keep any of that! A photo on the other hand I keep forever. Good and Bad.
So my mid year resolution is to keep the hard drive clean. I left everything from 2007 since I am still accessing those files. Everything else is burned on cds and labeled. Yes, all of those files are in my trash on my computer. Yes, I am having a very hard time hitting empty trash. What if….but no. I will do it…tomorrow.