> 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.
>
> 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.

Yes. Without a system of some sort that many photos could be fairly
meaningless.

So: Photos are all timed and dated.
Raw versions are stored in day subdirectories.
I made a GPS log on one day "for fun" but didn't keep it up. Had I done so I
could have located every photo within a few metres. As it is, the continual
day threads allow you to locate every shot with good accuracy.

Copies on hard disk and (many many) CDs as backup.
I add comments to selected file names to allow rapid location of selected
events/locations/people.
Also pictures from two other photographers at various points with much lower
volumes.
I won't even mention the video tapes :-)
I chose to mainly be a passenger while driving so I could take photos.
French (or Italian, Slovenian, Slovak, Czech, US, Austrian, Swiss, Dutch,
English, Irish, ...) village - set camera to manual focus and exposure
(learn to change these very rapidly after a while using viewfinder
feedback), window down, interesting houses, signs, people, power lines,
cars, ... as one drove through. Tends to account for the average rate of
picture taking and make up for the few times when photos were not taken.
Walk through a village and take details of buildings, plants, shops, food,
.... . End result is 600 to 1000+ photos per day. Some superb, some average,
some blurred and ill exposed.  Most contain some interesting information.

My wife has subset a per-day collection and then sub-sub-set two sheets of
composite pictures per day for printing. Still not quite finished! (Up to
day 54 I think).
Any time I wish I can choose a raw day set and using Irfanview step through
these at as fast as the PC will handle. Gives you the whole day in review.
Stop as required, back up, print selected pictures etc. Stepping through a
single day flat out takes about 10 minutes. Stopping takes longer. The
memories this evokes are amazing. having the continuous strong thread
reminds you of much that would otherwise be soon forgotten. I can retrace
our steps (or driving) through Escondido, Sedona, Tuolumne, Vienna, San
Marino, Monaco, Nice, Frieberg, Stirling, Dublin, Bodium, Chester or any
other of a thousand places. I print selected pictures A4 & keep in clear
files, in addition to the day compilation sheets (130 or so of them :-) ).

I have 85 MB of pictures of the Titan 1 at NASA Ames (mostly closeup details
of engine construction) .
Dozens of shots of the windmills coming into San Francisco.
And Jodrell bank, Portmerion, Raglan Castle (& quite a few other castles) &
more churches than you can imagine.
Probably 500 to 1000 photos of the streets and houses and people of SF
(Including a sequence of what appeared to be a small time drug deal in SF,
taken from a  BART tram).
And London. And Rome. And Paris, And ....
Even a dozen or two of James Newton and family :-)

I find dealing with the volume and complexity well worth the end result.




        Russell McMahon

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