I have a lot of pictures.
I mean, boxes and boxes of pictures, negatives and slides. And they need to be organized.
I have not just all the pictures I have taken for forty years, but my brothers and grandparents pictures as well.
The newer pictures, digital, are much easier to deal with. They already are dated, so all I need to do is tag them with keywords - location and who is in them.
The prints are probably the next easiest to deal with. They can easily be scanned and then tagged with keywords. The only point of failure is my memory. As the last surviving member of my immediate family, I am the last person who stands a chance of being able to identify subjects and locations. Fortunately, many are marked on the back, so it isn't an impossible task.
More problematic are the negatives and slides. I still haven't completely figured out a way to deal with them. I will probably have to buy a scanner and then go at it frame by frame. Did I mention I have boxes and boxes of slides and negatives?
It's going to be an expensive project in terms of time. And certainly a trip down memory lane. People who are no longer with us, places from past visits and homes. And many of those odd pictures we take, thinking we will remember them. It is amazing how much we can remember from the vantage point of years later.
I think maybe in the fall, I will start a plan to organize the pictures. Far enough in the future to take the pressure off, not so far off that it won't get done.
And I should allow time for the photographs I continue to take.
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