Weeding

[poliphilo]

I'm weeding family photographs. My parents were keen photographers, not very good at it- and seem to have kept everything. The secret is not to overthink- or overfeel- what you're doing. If a shot duplicates another better shot, is out of focus, shows people, animals, objects and scenery that will mean nothing to later generations or is simply yet another pic of relatives sitting in arm chairs at yet another unmemorable family gathering you tear it across (no going back) and drop it in the rubbish bag. You mustn't allow sentiment to creep in. If you do the exercise becomes depressing- and you should stop immediately- and wait till you can take it up again in a spirit of detachment.

I'm doing this so my kids or grandkids don't have to.

Comments

[poliphilo]

I'm being ruthless with the more recent material but I'll go easy on the older stuff. A picture that's 100 years old has earned the right to be taken seriously.