I had a wild hair idea yesterday. I thought I would check to see what kinds of photographs I had stored on an external hard drive. I moved a lot of files onto an external hard drive when I was working on a laptop because of limited storage. I have found many photographs I forgot I had taken. Many of these places no longer exist. The buildings may still be standing but the businesses are long gone.
All this has made me wonder about all the thousands of photographs that are taken each day that may never be viewed again after the initial use. What memories and bits of history will soon fade.
This adventure also reminded me just how bad some of my post-processing was years ago. Thinking and seeing how I processed images in the past and how awful I think some of them are now causes me to think about how I and my photography will progress in the future.
I even found one of my photography life lessons. Look at the details or you may miss a drink cup.
It was a fun and oftentimes entertaining exercise going through many of my older photographs, which are now once again part of my active catalog of photographs. I may actually follow through on a project I have had planned for the past couple of years but just never completed.
Photographer Clay 
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