How I Work: My Photo System: Archive and Souvenirs

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But to make things a little bit easier to find, I put them into folders by term (4 month stretch), and in those folders I have optional subfolders by the batch of photos - like "Lindsay's Birthday"The archive allays my fears of deleting a photo I might value later, gives me a resource if I feel like wallowing in plentiful images from a particular time in my life, and lets me indulge the fantasy that someday something in the corner of one of my photos may be needed in a criminal investigation, like in Blow Up. Here are the processes for my system:- Over a term, collect all the photos that come my way to the archive.- When the term is over, actually a few months after its over so that those last few photos come in, start going through the archive for that term and select the photos.- Every year or so, have the souvenir photos for that year printed and mailed to me. So 2 years will fit in a 300 photo album.- When the photo archive gets to be the size of a DVD, burn it and delete from hard drive.That last point was the key to my system, when I realized that my whole enormous glut of photos from my camera over 2 years was only about 3 gigs.
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