> Russell McMahon wrote:
> > I took the 7Hi "around the world" and took 40,000+ pictures in 9
> > weeks (work out the average time between shots :-)
>
> Allowing for 8 hours sleep per day, that comes out to a picture every 1.5
> waking minutes.  I can't imagine what I would do with 40,000
> pictures, ugh!
> Even just reviewing one per second would take over 11 hours, and I usually
> spend several minutes per picture recording information, archiving, etc.

        Wow, that's quite a bit! I took about 600 pictures during a recent 3 week
vacation to Europe. Actually took many more but deleted ones that were no
good, so those 600 were "good" pictures.

> I find pictures eventually become useless or at least frustrating
> when they
> are not accompanied by additional information.  The most
> important of these
> is time.  Next is probably names if people appear in the pictures.  I also
> include a description of the subject, other info that might interest
> viewers, lat/lon coordinates with confidence radius, etc.

        Well that's one area digital photography has certainly made things much
easier. Since there is no cost per picture I take pictures of specific
things to make reference points. For example, when visiting a castle I'll
take a picture of the overview map of the grounds, and every once in a while
take a picture of some reference point. And, of course, the camera embeds
the time, date, exposure and other camera settings right in the JPEG file,
so every picture has it's crucial info embedded.

        On top of that I usually have some sort of log to at least record WHERE I
was, in general terms.

        Beyond that my camera generates web pages that group all the pictures by
day, so all I do is copy the pictures and the index.htm and I can browse my
pictures, by date, using any web browser. To think of how I was taking
pictures only 5 years ago! :) TTYL

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