2021-10-19
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I've been trying to work out a way to enjoy photography more. I
had found myself familiarly bound by some unhelpful habits that I 
had caught from my limited exposure to smartphones and from
working on an adjacent field.

There are some rules and freedoms I now try to observe:

1) Do not keep duplicates
2) Be less picky about quality and style
3) Think less about backups
4) Prune the collection
5) Think of them as a journal

What I get this way is a product that is comparable to a physical
photo album. What I don't get is the anxiety of curating the
"almost perfect" pictures into a finished product or the never
ending cycle of backing stuff up only to forget it on different
hard drives in different boxes.

This strategy wouldn't work on everything that I could do with
the camera, but for now I feel a sense of liberation. It feels
like this is not work, and even if I delete a photo accidentally
it isn't the end of the world. Maybe after I get a few hundred
pics on the card I will feel like I need to back it up, but for
now it's all good. It's an improvement.

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