The Axe-Wielding Photographer

[stepcrew]

I have an unusual view on trip and event pictures.  I think they're boring.  Wedding albums?  Boring.  Sight-seeing booklets?  Boring.  If you weren't there, it's probably boring.

So I like to chop my photo collections down to half a dozen shots or so of things that might actually engage the people I'm likely to show them to.  Which is what I'm

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[peppygrowlithe]

I have an unusual view on trip and event pictures.

It's fun to look at pictures with friends and people you know, as well as see pictures of yourselves while younger, but for the most part, photography is an art that is lost upon me.

Are you deleting them from the stuff you'll show others, or just entirely? You never know if that fuzzy blob might bring fond memories in the future!

... But I think that's the packrat in me talking.

[stepcrew]

I am actually deleting the pictures. I don't think I'll forget the wolf, picture or no. :)

I used to be a merciless packrat, and that's one of the things that eventually made me so minimalistic about memorabilia. I had this ever-expanding collection of old stuff that served no purpose other than to remind me of things I could remember clearly anyway.

Hey, you lifted some of those boxes. They were heavy, man.