Just flogging a dead horse....which sometimes still needs a flogging

[rogxwhit]

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It's inescapable that each of us is mortal.  Similarly but on a larger timescale, the earth is doomed in the long term - but from the way we humans are going in the way we treat it, in the not so long term, as far as being habitable goes.  

I wonder whether the hoarding of images can be an antidote to subliminal fear.  A futile wish to control existence?

The existence of a few snaps certainly ain't gonna save the planet.  

 

[jaapv]

Habitable for humans you mean - fairly irrelevant from the point of view of life in general - we are only phasing ourselves and  associated species out - the planet does not care. 

[FrozenInTime]

55 minutes ago, rogxwhit said:

It's inescapable that each of us is mortal.  Similarly but on a larger timescale, the earth is doomed in the long term - but from the way we humans are going in the way we treat it, in the not so long term, as far as being habitable goes.  

I wonder whether the hoarding of images can be an antidote to subliminal fear.  A futile wish to control existence?

The existence of a few snaps certainly ain't gonna save the planet.  

 

Image preservation has trouble man for tens of thousands of years; the solution obvious : giant statues, too large to move or be repurposed, carved out of granite or basalt 😉 

[DenverSteve]

RAW & JPEG. I keep only photos I would want shown in an exhibit or to friends.  40 years of commercial work and only shots published and/or used by clients kept.  I keep a bit more from personal travels as they are a roadmap of where I've been.  However, all duplicates and "similars" are tossed. That still results in 10s of thousands of photos.  Just as in my film days, my goal is to shoot in camera and extract photos needing little to no post processing. After university photo degrees and graduate film school, if it's not right in the camera, it's wrong and possibly needs to be reshot.  In digital now I might bring up shadows to balance some unruly light, adjust contrast and some cropping as is necessary but that's about it. Color balancing in video as well to balance out different lighting/days work.   If it doesn't look right coming out of the camera I toss it.