Someone once said that one problem with modern photos is that it’s too easy to delete the pictures that don’t look perfect. You end up with white bread pictures of people smiling at the camera. Katie and I tend to go the opposite route and save all pictures except the truly heinous. I guess C can shuffle through them some day and decide which she likes of herself and which to ditch (I don’t pretend this actually true).

But between never tossing photos and the ability to take an infinite amount of photos on digital cameras, I have nearly twenty gigs of photos on my computer, with countless more stored only online.

Simply put, that’s just not cool. I don’t have an infinite amount of resources to categorize and store all of those photos, and it’s nearly impossible to go back now and label them all correctly and put them in easy to find places. So I have a million pictures, and I can never find what I want when I need it.

The only solution I know of is to do it right from now on and work on the archives in my spare time. That’ll happen when C is 30, I think.

The site with the stupid name.

Anyway, flickr has some really good features, such as easy sharing and unlimited uploads and bandwidth for only $25 a year. But it has some pretty big negatives, too. It doesn’t have a lot of customizability, for example, and the organizing features are just terrible. I spent an hour yesterday trying to tag photos that were supposed to have been uploaded into a folder and weren’t. And at the end of tagging dozens and dozens of photos, I had four photos that were correctly tagged.

Anyway, we’ll see how this goes. I have a fourteen day trial. All I know is there’s got to be something better out there than flickr. If it looks worth it, there are several tools for importing your flickr pictures. Obviously I’ll want to try them before paying!

Edit: here’s a pretty cool article about the family business.