Day 23 - Looking Back
The weather has taken a bit of a grey turn recently and whilst I have ideas of some more exploration of water in industry by going down to the local fish quays, the light is very flat and to be honest I’d like some more people to be out too.
So instead today I have been looking back over my photos over the last few years.
I have a number that are sitting ready for final edits and processing into products to sell, but I also have thousands that are test shots or just not quite good enough.
These are images that I never look at and am in all reality probably never going to use.
So I got ruthless.
I eyeballed around 4000 images that I haven’t already flagged or graded from pre 2025. Those that had potential to be an image to share on social media I kept. Those that had a significant personal value I kept. Those that stimulated a memory I kept.
Every other one I rejected - over 2000 of them!
And then I deleted them.
Gone.
no back up.
Just gone.
It was surprising cathartic!
I now have a much lighter library of images which I would like to maintain.
This month challenge has been great for forming those good habits though. I have been more disciplined than usual ad culled any images that do not reach the grade.
Even if I like them, if they are not going to be useful, they have not even been imported.
The SD cards in my camera have been cleared once a week too.
If nothing else I will have a more streamline process moving forward!
Todays images are a few of water in general - from the warm murky waters of the Bosphorus and the amazing patterns that the chops gives, to the wonderful cascades of fresh Scottish mountain water as it rushes down the hill sides, crystal clear and icy cold.
Water is everywhere and adds beautiful textures and movement to so many of our scenes.
Here are a couple more of my older shots showing lakes and reservoirs:
As always - thanks for reading!