Photography lesson for all time!

This wasn’t the blog article I was going to write today. I was going to write about when clients, customers, or your audience likes a photograph you think is ho-hum or mundane. Like I said, I was going to write about that. I even had an example of the image I wanted to use as an example, except I can’t find it. I’ve gone through some external drives that I thought were backups. Some of the backups no longer existed so I must have purged them. GASP! I did find one of my drives that has 12,000+ images that were, at least, recognized as not existing in my current active catalog. Now the slow laborious import of those to the catalog in Lightroom. I say slowly because I have to use an older external hard drive which is slow. The other problem is apparently nothing was keyworded or put in any type of order. LOUDER GASP!

The interesting thing is I’m seeing photographs that I had forgotten about and some that I have said, “Why do I have a photograph of THAT!” All the images were in folders but the folders were by date without any other information so that is much help since I don’t remember the date I took the photograph I wanted to use.

The photography lesson for all time? Organize your photographic assets! Yes, your photographs are assets. One day, when you have tens of thousands of photographs life will be easier. As a sub-lesson for all time. Backup, backup, backup.