A friend of mine asked me to find an old picture of his truck from about 20+ years ago...he's restoring it, wants a reference. So my photo organization is a large box and everything gets pitched in it. Usually no labels/notes dates, nada. From the looks of some of the photos I think its safe to say I had a lotta fun back in the day. Now with digital everything it's a lot easier keeping track of stuff. So lets hear your organization approaches to the old Kodak paper pictures...a big box? Labeled albums? memory? Ever find pictures and wonder who in hell it is and where its at?
Never had, never will have. I see my life through my eyes, my mind selects the frames it wants to remember. It has never occured to me to document my life... I AM that document.
I have some old pictures in a folder that a college sent me. I've lost a lot of pictures, though, they tend to stick together. After digital cameras came out, I've pretty much stuck with online photo albums and copies on all the hard drives in the house. I have a photo album somewhere at my parents' house from the first half of high school, and I have a collage of pictures of my friends I put together then, too. I have noticed, I tend to take more pictures when I'm happy with the way things are going in my life. There aren't many pictures since I graduated high school. lol
The coolest things I've got in photos is not my stuff but stuff from my grandparent and great-grandparents. Tin-types, Sepia tones old B & W and some handpainted color stuff. It documents life on the farm from the late 1800's all the way through the depression. Steam Threshing Machines, horse drawn equiptment, barn raising, tons of information on a way of living long past. Fortunately most of that is documented, names, dates, location. The connection to those times and members of my family feels pretty amazing. In 2011 I'm talking to people I've only connected with through an eletronic medium about my family and their activities over 100 years ago. The people in those photos could never have dreamed such things. Now we wonder what the next leap forward will offer. Makes me realize I need to work on my photos so a 100 years from now some distant relative can have some sense of their past...the life I'm currently living. Anybody else got any photo connections?
my pictures are scattered everywhere - I have albums for just family and my dad, then I have a box filled with high school pictures. Everything now, I pretty much glue into my journal and write whatever comes to mind about the memories behind it... For the most part, I've gotta get more organized, I'd say...
It's still really hard for me to look at old photos after my wife died. Hell it took me 5 years just to start coming back here again.
A couple of years ago, one of my aunts started collecting all the old pictures everyone in my family had in old boxes at home. With everyone's help, she labelled them and put them in chronological order. She found something like a thousand pics, pics of cousins who lived in different countries, pics of great-great-grandparents, etc. She put them all in a digital photo album, along with a huge family tree, and sent everyone a copy. Its an absolutely amazing work and we all got teary looking at it. Sorry to hear that...
