My favourite thing about digital cameras is the ability to instantly look at the picture you've just captured and decide if it is worthy of saving or, in most cases, instantly deleted. Gone are the days of developing film only to discover that out of 24 pictures only four are decent and your eyes were closed in two of them.
However, this great technology serves to enable the procrastinators of the world. I think of all the times have I gone to take a picture, only to discover the memory card full and be forced with the choice of which old memory to delete in order to preserve the next. I have even purchased new memory cards to avoid having to upload the hundreds of photos to my computer- because the perfectionist in me cannot simply save all the pictures in the same jumbled file. No, they must be sorted, and labeled, with the lighting balanced and all red eyes removed. So it is a constant struggle between the perfectionist and the procrastinator.
Happily, I was finally able to strike a sort of balance between these two character flaws. Photos have been unceremoniously dumped in one folder labeled "Sort these pics!!" and are slowly being edited and transfered to their appropriate locations. Over the next few days be prepared for a crazy assortment of photos from the last year. And don't be surprised if you finally get that Christmas card in the mail- I found the perfect picture for the cover.
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