We have too many photos. Digital technology makes everyone snap-happy. Not that many years ago you thoughts about it before taking a picture - developing film cost money. Now taking pictures just takes megabytes. And we have many many megabytes of pictures.
It's not a bad thing in itself. Taking lots of pictures means we have many more good ones. And many more bad ones. And many more from our children's perspectives. But we rarely delete the bad ones. We rarely cull the collection, or label them so we can sort them later.
Right now we have over 16,000 digital photos stretching back to 2000 when we got our first digital camera. And they're all easily accessed by scrolling through them on my computer. Wow. Imagine 16,000 slide or prints...
Scanning through them I am immensely grateful to have this abundance of pictures. What an amzing treasure. I take it back. We don't have too many pictures. We have just the right number for today.
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