To keep my blog alive, I decided to post any random pic that I click on in the album. This is the one I got. Not particularly a good pic but it's one of the many thousands.
Thursday, November 28, 2019
Why I haven't been blogging
A friend just asked me this morning why I haven't been posting on my naturist blog. I am now getting rather jaded and easily tired. About three months ago, I was in Europe for a month doing nude hiking and other nude activities and I haven't even sorted out the thousands of photos I took. To choose one or two of them for the blog is not easy. If I pick one, why not another which is equally good or even better? I haven't even gone through my huge collection of photos in the first place.
To keep my blog alive, I decided to post any random pic that I click on in the album. This is the one I got. Not particularly a good pic but it's one of the many thousands.
To keep my blog alive, I decided to post any random pic that I click on in the album. This is the one I got. Not particularly a good pic but it's one of the many thousands.
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Well Lim, I do gently tease you, and you gently tease yourself, about your constant photo creation. "I'm Asian, so I have to have thousands of pictures of myself" is what you say! And I've suggested that you're mostly making trouble for yourself, because you'll never sort all the pictures out, and lots of them are close to identical anyway (though I have to say that one you chose for this article is quite distinctive and attractive). I came home from our excellent Austrian trip (alas, I missed the German sequel) with 558 pictures, and that was plenty! It's at least a manageable enough volume that I could select a reasonable number to put on the Freerangenaturism website and feel that I'd basically covered what the event was like.
ReplyDeleteI've actually heard it said that photography is a bad way to remember something. The idea was that our pictures are right in front of us while the genuine memory fades, so what's in the pictures comes to dominate our impression of the experience. Without them, we might not remember as clearly, but things would tend to have a more even emphasis, not limited to what we happened to point the camera at. Of course if we photograph everything, then we have a complete record and we've missed nothing!
Hi John, Great to hear from you. I know you won't be going to Austria this year, which is such a shame but I suppose I will see you again in 2021? I have not counted the number of photos I took but it's really an astronomical number. When you consider that I take hundreds of photos every day even when I am at home, it shouldn't surprise you when I take thousands when I am on holiday. But taking lots of photos has its advantage and I can give you two examples. A friend of mine received a traffic summons for having beaten the red light 3 weeks ago. He couldn't remember if he was driving the car or someone else. That won't happen to me because my photograph record is so comprehensive that I can tell if I am driving on a particular day. Another example happened quite recently. My wife and I had gone for breakfast with my daughter before we dropped her off at the library. She rang me to ask if she was wearing both earrings at breakfast. One earring was missing and she wanted to know if it could have dropped off in her bedroom. I checked the photos I took of us at breakfast and sure enough, she only had one earring at the time. So she knew she had left it at home. There are many other examples. Health checks and reports are all photographed and when I need to see a report in 2015, I simply type "health 2015" and everything comes out. I can tell with certainty if my cholesterol had gone up in these 5 years. I have hundreds of other examples. The benefits of taking countless photos far outweigh the inconvenience and the embarrassment of appearing eccentric. But I admit the inconvenience can be huge. It's very hard to sort out the photos and when someone asks me if I have a particular photo, I usually ask him for the date and the approximate time when it's taken. It's easier to locate a photo when I have these details. The photos are sorted out according to time taken and I have to look in various folders because I usually take pics with different cameras and also my phone.
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