Sometimes I feel like I am a photo-hoarder. I travel, create photographs, and then they just sit and collect virtual dust in my Lightroom catalog. It’s sort of like the old saying:
“If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?”
If we create a photo and never share it with anyone but ourselves, does it exist?
Of course it does, but what’s the point? I create photos for many reasons, partly because it’s a way for me to enjoy and experience things I normally would not if I were not a photographer. But the biggest reason I create photos is because I love photography. I want to make something beautiful, and it’s always nice to share beauty with others.
If you are like me, you probably have dozens (if not hundreds) of beautiful photographs on your computer with the potential to be shared online, printed and hung on a wall, viewed, and admired, by others. My entire job revolves around photography, yet it is oftentimes a struggle to carve time out of my day to process and post an image to Facebook or my own blog. Heck, most of the people I follow on Facebook are photographers, yet it seems like there is less and less original content shared, and the link-bait-viral-news-articles keep flooding my feed.
So let’s all band together and process, print, and share our photographs. Now is a great time to do some “Spring cleaning” by sorting through your photos to see what you may have missed the first time around.
Say NO to virtual dust! :)
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yeah, thank for yor post :)
great post, thank you for inspiration, now’s definitely a good time for spring cleaning :)
Every time I take a photo I think of how it can be shared as hoarding photos on my computer seems such a waste.
Seth Godin maintains that it is not completely real until it is shipped (in this context, that would mean shared).
One of the things that I like about Facebook is that that is a site where my work is shared primarily with non-photographers.
Great post! I spend most of the winter going through photos from the previous year and wondering, “what am I going to do with this?” Still trying to figure that part out!
I know I have a lot of unshared photos. But for me, the camera is just an excuse to get outside and take a walk. The pictures are secondary, even though I and others enjoy them. I can do the same walking the dogs and taking no pictures, which I also do a fair amount of time. I love my photography, but I love my walks even more. Which is why I don’t do any indoor photography unless it’s for family functions.
Nancy
I’m a hoarder too. Maybe it is time to change it…
#SpringCleaning
What a great post. You’ve encouraged me to do something I have been putting off for too long.
Great Post!
You are so right. Thanks for the reminder. :-)