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[elainegrey]

Our neighbor has had foot surgery and so yesterday afternoon, stressed by long distance communication[1], i took her dog Carson for a walk down Stevens Creek. It was the path that i used to take to work, so the creek was both familiar and unfamiliar. I haven't been on a solitary walk down that stretch for years, and Carson was such a well behaved dog that i was able to stop and study whenever i wanted. I believe Carson was delighted with so many person initiated stops!

This morning's journaling was in adding captions to the creek photos with which i am flooding Flickr as i type.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/elainegreycats/tags/20120125stevenscreekwalk/show/

I took a gigabyte of images in the fifty shots: the new camera shoots huge images. I'm trying to process photos as i go, and these documentary shots have no purpose beyond comparison to past images of the creek. I believe i need to become disciplined about my image care, but the pack rat self is anxious about my plan. I've deleted half the shots, and i am now exporting the images from the 14+ MB raw images to .5 MB jpgs, and i will delete the originals.

Dear Pack Rat Self,

You have thousands of historical photos that need processing: wonderful whale photos, fantastic Joshua Tree photos! These images are important for your care of the creek, yes, but you will never need all those pixels. Let them go!



I've lots of correspondence to attend to. I'm pondering the month of letters challenge as a way to make headway on my physical correspondence.

*sigh* forgot to hit post.

[1] we made the progress we needed, so yay!