Over the last few months I’ve been working on an mini project with my photos. Yes I know, I have lots of projects with my photos and usually they just amount to some thinking and no real action, but this one isn’t that tough and is actually kind of fun in a non-photographic sort of way.
This project starts due to some work I did over the last few years to digitize my family’s (physical) photo collection. I basically have all my family’s photo albums that I have access to scanned. That took awhile, but it’s all done; the problem is that they’re loosely organized in folders, such as family photos, school photos etc. Now what I’m trying to do is to organize them by year. And that’s a much harder challenge.
We have it great now, with digital cameras and EXIF data, because our photos are tagged with timestamp (and even geolocation). Some past photos put a date watermark in the bottom right corner, and that’s really useful; but the majority have no such data. So this ends up being a huge detective game where I’m trying to place photos in time based on my memory, what people look like, and the environment. Lucky for me, I’m in most of the photos and I basically look different every year.
Still it’s kind of tedious but also kind of fun. It’s not something I need to complete overnight, but it’ll probably entertain me for a few months.
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