I love going back and browsing through older images.  It’s both fun to remember the experience, and sobering to see how much we’ve changed in such a short period of time.  It’s hard to imagine that our girls were so small just four years ago!

Going through all these old photos got me thinking.  The invention of digital photography has been a tremendous boon to the amateur and professional photographer alike.  We can take hundreds, thousands of photographs without worrying about wasting money on developing a sorry roll of film.  A downside, however, is the overwhelming number of photos that we now take, good and bad, and how to keep up with them.  It takes a critical eye to weed out the photos that, had we shot in film, we would have kept as “keepers” only because they were the only image we had of the memory.  This really hits home when I look and realize just how many photos I’ve uploaded to our Smugmug site.  It’s an overwhelming number, and then how do you organize them to make them easily found and accessible.  It drives home the point of having a well thought out filling, naming and tagging system for your photos.

Regardless, take the time to peruse old photos.  Go find all those old hard drives, thumb drives and CDs and see what you find.  It will be fun and eye opening!