On 04/02/2014 12:06 PM, Bob Sullivan wrote:
Can you say 'Hello Vivian Meyers'
You could also say "Hello" to many, I am sure, millions, of people who's
imagery is as unimportant as a cold dog turd.
My pictures are probably a poster child for unimportant images.
On Tue, Feb 4, 2014 at 9:50 AM, Mark Roberts <postmas...@robertstech.com> wrote:
Bill <anotherdrunken...@gmail.com> wrote:
Very few people are actually interested in this sort of stuff. Often I
think they have better mental health. The people I truly wonder about
are the ones who have their files backed up six ways from Sunday, like
as if at some point in the future people will actually care about their
boring pictures.
One never knows what the future will value. One of those boring
pictures could be the Anne Frank of the 21st century.
Ann Frank's was a glowing story of pathos, and surely a tragedy, but she
was just one of millions of people whose lives were destroyed by WWII,
and is no more, or less important than anyone else.
The world would not be an exceptionally different place had her diary
been destroyed along with her, and pictures of her would then be those
of just another nameless little girl who was swallowed up by the forces
of evil.
Perhaps I'm a bit of a heretic, but really, most pictures are almost
always of little more than passing interest, even to the person who took
them, are generally boring, and are not worthy of any preservation
efforts whatsoever.
With the pox on photography that is the digital era, preserving
everything captured by a sensor diminishes anything captured by a
sensor, and considering how little importance even the most important
images have, pretty much every image is valueless.
Most people seem to realize this, and treat their pictures for what they
are, which is digital ephemera, to be kept until it is unhandy to store
them, and then send them to the digital version of hell to be thankfully
forgotten.
bill
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