Camera OCD

Before

I think it is well established with those that know me, that I am a freak about taking pictures. I thought I'd let you in on how I keep it all organized...make this the year that you resolve to capture ALL those moments that aren't your typical picture taking times because you know a week from now you won't remember them! My process is :

1. after taking pictures I head to the computer and download them into one of three files: Ava, Elle or Family/Grown-Up Fun. In each of those folders it's sorted by year and then by month.

2. After a few months, I go through all of the folders and pick out all pictures I'd like to have printed and burn them all to CD's. This is the time consuming part, but in the scheme of things, it's a few nights of not watching TV after the girls go to bed and working on burning CD's instead.

3. Next head to Walmart and be prepared to sell off a body organ to pay for prints, even at 12 cents a digital print, it adds up fast! (don't wait too long in between getting photos printed and it won't seem like such a heavy burden on the wallet....maybe I should follow my own advice.)

4. Next I bring them all home and begin sorting them into stacks by event, leaving a misc. stack for pics I can't figure out. Then I label the stacks I know of, with the date it occured.

5. Here comes another less time consuming but tedious part. For the misc. stack, I go through each folder on the computer looking for the pics in the misc stack, pulling out pics that match each month and label those misc. stacks by month.

6. Last I line them all up in calendar order and grab a few photo albums and start sliding them in. As I go, I stick the label that was on the top pic of each stack in the photo album so I know what date to write when I go back.



Are you thoroughly confused and exhausted yet? I am. I just finished doing the above steps to 732 pictures.

After