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23.01.2022 Here I am in beautiful Budapest city trying to dodge the hoards of tourists and get a photo without people in it. Every tourist has either a camera phone on a selfie stick or a professional digital camera setup. My eyes sweep across at the crowds everywhere you look and I imagine where all those photos will end up. I reckon they are either left in the camera/iphone or downloaded for later viewing, if ever. Maybe they are shown once or twice but I also imagine most are then lo...st - lost in a massive data base of jumbled photos or lost forever when an SD card or hard disk shits itself without back up. We live in a world where snaps are taken from every angle but little thought is ever taken to documenting them and giving them meaning. Heaven forbid that I stop anyone from snapping away. The majority of the shots I see people take are quite useless anyway. See more

17.01.2022 School reunions highlight precisely why faces on photos definitely need names, especially when you have not seen your school piers for over 50 years. Photos courtesy Nick Szwed. http://stalbanshighschool.org

17.01.2022 Write one story this month. Set a personal topic - an experience, a disaster in your life, an event that you will remember forever, what it was like to drive your own car for the first time - dig deep into your memory and add photos for context. You will find it rather refreshing especially when you share it with someone close. We should write stories about our history more often. www.storyworth.com

17.01.2022 Clearing out "stuff" you don't need comes when you have to shift house. Its amazing how you become rather ruthless with possessions that you have accumulated over the years - ones you are forced to make a choice about and ones you realise you don't really need. Clothes you seldom wear, kitchen stuff you seldom use, general stuff that has had its use by date which you have been reluctant to throw out. And of course there is your precious photos. If you have printed albums you ...obviously hang on to those. What about your photos on hard disks and SD cards? Of course - its easy to take them with you, even if you don't look at them very often - or because you can't find the ones you want quickly. My point is that you always never hesitate to take your printed albums with you (if you have room) and all the thousands of photos stored away digitally. Sorting out things you want to hang onto happens when you are forced to choose. My mum died a month ago and I have been forced to go through her stuff and chose which ones to go to the Opportunity Shop and which ones will be distributed to the family. Not an easy choice but someone had to do just that - including what to do with her photos. The good part is that many of her photos I already have - I digitised them some time ago and more importantly I put each of them into context with a description. Most of these photos I have subsequently printed into photobooks that the family continue to read and get much pleasure from. Most people never do that. Photos are left in shoe boxes or albums without a full appreciation of who the people are or what was the context. Gradually over time the photo memory is lost. I often wonder how many individual printed photos without an explanation are thrown out and end up in the tip? And our digital photos stored away on our digital media? Where will they end up if they are not categorised or put into context. Will they be missed, will they be chucked out with other possessions? Photo books with stories and context are definitely the way to go. See more

16.01.2022 When you spend a few months traveling around Europe and record the memories each day so you can print a photo book when you arrive home.

14.01.2022 Don't let your precious memories be lost to future generations. Capture them, convert them, restore them, store them, build a photo story book and share your precious memories with your loved ones.

14.01.2022 Spent quite a few hours gathering together photos and brochures and diary notes from my daughter and family. They were in multiple jumbled locations - photos on both their iPhones, photos on cameras (both ours and theirs), photos on FaceBook (both ours and theirs), daily diary text as a school project by granddaughter (and newsletters I wrote), lots of brochures and notations etc. 3 weeks traveling around England was really exciting and hugely satisfying, especially following up ancestral and historical sites. Once I had all these resources I carefully put them all chronologically together and added an index and time line/itinerary for ease of use. Presenting this important photo book as a memorable Christmas present to remember forever? Priceless!!!!!!

12.01.2022 The 20/80 rule works well in many cases. Your wear 20% of what's in your wardrobe 80% of the time. You generate 80% of your business from 20% of your customers. 80% of what you eat at home comes from a limited menu (around 20%). You tend to go back to to a small number of past photos (let's say 20% of your huge collection) that you remember for their photographic capture or for their personal content. "Just in case" comes in many forms. "One day I could need/want that." We al...l know what that means. We tend to hang on to far too much stuff. We worry about discarding things we might "use" and so we all drown ourselves in crap. There is lots of stuff we hang on to that never see the light of day. Cookbooks, clothes, and photos. How to overcome hanging on to stuff "just in case?" Be more ruthless and know the difference between the good stuff and "crap." If you don't do this then when you eventually disappear from this earth someone else will cull your stuff for you. Let's take photos as an example. A small number of photos (the gems) are valued beyond belief. People remember these and come back to them often. The rest are usually left in a corner somewhere and forgotten. These "just in case photos" need to be culled. They take up space but we delude ourselves if we think that once we are gone those coming after us will take the time to review and admire. So lets be more discerning. It does not take long. Add context and a timeline to all your quality photos (the ones you prefer to take out and share). Doing this provides clues and a memory trigger for later. As for the mediocre photos - just give them away (assuming that your friends/relatives/public want them at all).

12.01.2022 When traveling around UK and Europe we inevitably come across churches, cathedrals and minsters. They speak of a "rich" history of a select few who believed they were anointed by god to convert the wonder of "father, the son, and the Holy Ghost" into a secular form. The opulence of these select few is sickening. They believed this was "god's" way to cement their personal "legacy" in history. Their graves are located close by - around and inside these churches. Their secular ...remnants may remain today but many of their personal stories are lost over time. What legacy, if any, would you like to leave? How will your legacy be documented, if at all? How long will your legacy last in time? Will it be a verbal memory that only lasts, at best, a couple of generations? Will it be a visual memory that lasts longer? Will it simply be a stone or wooden gravestone with an epitaph that eventually wears away? How will your story be told?

09.01.2022 I met an avid fellow photographer today. We were both taking photos of boats on the water edge from many angles. Each photo was carefully framed and shot with care. As we were snapping away I asked him what he does with his photos. He said he seldom shares his photos with others. He transfers all his snaps on to a hard disk and then works meticulously on them in Photoshop to enhance them. I noticed he used only two lenses - 35mm and 50mm. When I commented on this he said he h...as never used a zoom lens. He wants to be as close to what the naked eye can see. When he found out what I do with my photos he was visibly dismayed. I post all my favourite snaps (in time) on pixabay.com so that anyone can use them. It got me thinking. Do you, as a photographer, only take photos for your personal enjoyment or do you also take photos for others to share? Given the number of photos I see people take I doubt if the majority ever see the light of day. See more

07.01.2022 Funny how Facebook's memories have become so popular as people relive things that Facebook itself decides to share with you. It's because most people can't find "that" photo even if they tried. It is lost in the bottomless pit of random storage devices. We live in an age where everything is recorded yet very little precious personal visual memories captured on photos can be easily regurgitated when needed. Social media and government big data has it all on file and probably ...knows where to find it though. Without some sort of cataloguing we will continue to live with quantity over quality and rely on FB to bring up stuff from our past. Make time to go over your most recent photos and cull duplicates or poor quality images. A key word or two is all that you need to reignite a context. Only save the good ones. No-one, including you, will want to go back and do that once the years go by. Eventually all these wonderful photos will be thrown out and the story behind them will be deleted too. We owe it to our later generations to make an effort. See more

07.01.2022 Everyone wants to be remembered.