I’m reduced to doing selective scanning. In the first box of images, where I was a far more conscientious scanner, I ground to a stop when I got to the first San Diego Train Fair. Yes, I carefully scanned any shots with either G or me in them. No, I didn’t’ scan the multitudes of photos of train car after train car.
I asked G if he wanted me to keep the photos. Nope.
So now I have begun work on the second box of photographs, and I find I’m easing into the old, “I don’t give a fig.” Here I have thousands of photographs in front of me yet to scan, and I’ve adopted a very poor attitude about all this. I’m cheating with my selective choices. Shouldn’t I scan each and every shot keeping the historical verisimilitude intact? Company picnics?
Not if I want to survive this experience.
1 comments:
Nah. Deletion is the most important part of photography -- and probably everything else. I only scan cute family snapshots and photographs I like. Then again, I don't throw the hard copies away either. I'm not very good at deletion.
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