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Jul. 29th, 2007 10:11 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
stormdogI used some time on the road to complete the previous entry about the Rhode Opera House's underground spaces. I used more time to work a bit on a résumé. I used even more time to sort a bunch of pictures out from the last few months. I have some interesting statistics.
Since I got my 20D, I've shot about 3,500 pictures.
I shot 86 pictures during a fantastic opportunity to explore an abandoned drive-in theatre this weekend, taking up 236 megabytes of storage.
I have 261 pictures from the wedding this weekend; nearly 700 megabytes of pictures.
Speaking of weddings, I think I have a similar number from![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
laureth and murstein's wedding. (Hey, do you two want me to go through and edit all of yours and pick the good ones, or do you want to have all of them so you can decide which ones you like?)
I have 130 pictures from this neat park in Grayslake that Posi and a friend from work explored a bit of. There were eighty year old foundations from farm buildings, old abandoned John Deere equipment of some type, and some really nifty trees. That's about 540 megabytes.
I have 262 pictures from the Rhode Opera House, totaling nearly a gigabyte (they must not have compressed well).
I have 345 pictures from the outing to faire on the 21st totalling nearly a gigabyte of space.
I have 222 pictures of the Forevertron out by Baraboo, filling about three quarters of a gigabyte on my hard drive.
And to beat them all out, I have 456 pictures from The House on the Rock, totaling a whopping one and a half gigabytes of storage space. No wonder Andrea was getting annoyed with me in there!
I am actually starting to face some problems in practicality of safe storage of these pictures. I definitely want to archive them on more than one media, just in case. I can get them all onto DVD, but I think I'd also like to get them onto either backup tape, or on a RAIDed hard disk array.
I guess since I'm working on cleaning out all of the extraneous physical cruft that's littering my living space, I have to start making up for it in virtual stuff. I pity the person who's going to have to go through a lifetime of my photos after I'm gone. Unless they're someone like me that is; to me, finding a collection of thousands upon thousands of photos that someone like my grandfather took would be unimaginably cool.
I must have looked somehow 'professional', whatever that means, at the wedding this weekend. Maybe it's because I have long hair and a big camera and tended to hang back photographing everything rather than getting involved as much as others. Several people commented about my camera and asked if I got good pictures. While I was talking about my hobby of photographing abandoned buildings and old theatres to someone at the brunch this morning, she asked if I was going to put a book together. As I told her, it's something that I've thought about and would love to do, but I don't really know how. I certainly don't have enough material yet either. Andrea though, when I mentioned the idea in the car, seemed to think it would be a really neat thing and talked about self-publishing and selling through Amazon, or theatre gift stores.
I've daydreamed about it too. I've also thought about looking into entering my photographs in art shows and the like. When Posi and I were at the Lake County Fair, I made a point of checking out the photography exhibit. There was a lot of really great stuff there and I couldn't help but think how neat it would be to see my own work up among the pictures. I honestly think I could produce images as good or better than some of the ones there. It's something I'm going to be thinking about.
Since I got my 20D, I've shot about 3,500 pictures.
I shot 86 pictures during a fantastic opportunity to explore an abandoned drive-in theatre this weekend, taking up 236 megabytes of storage.
I have 261 pictures from the wedding this weekend; nearly 700 megabytes of pictures.
Speaking of weddings, I think I have a similar number from
laureth and murstein's wedding. (Hey, do you two want me to go through and edit all of yours and pick the good ones, or do you want to have all of them so you can decide which ones you like?)I have 130 pictures from this neat park in Grayslake that Posi and a friend from work explored a bit of. There were eighty year old foundations from farm buildings, old abandoned John Deere equipment of some type, and some really nifty trees. That's about 540 megabytes.
I have 262 pictures from the Rhode Opera House, totaling nearly a gigabyte (they must not have compressed well).
I have 345 pictures from the outing to faire on the 21st totalling nearly a gigabyte of space.
I have 222 pictures of the Forevertron out by Baraboo, filling about three quarters of a gigabyte on my hard drive.
And to beat them all out, I have 456 pictures from The House on the Rock, totaling a whopping one and a half gigabytes of storage space. No wonder Andrea was getting annoyed with me in there!
I am actually starting to face some problems in practicality of safe storage of these pictures. I definitely want to archive them on more than one media, just in case. I can get them all onto DVD, but I think I'd also like to get them onto either backup tape, or on a RAIDed hard disk array.
I guess since I'm working on cleaning out all of the extraneous physical cruft that's littering my living space, I have to start making up for it in virtual stuff. I pity the person who's going to have to go through a lifetime of my photos after I'm gone. Unless they're someone like me that is; to me, finding a collection of thousands upon thousands of photos that someone like my grandfather took would be unimaginably cool.
I must have looked somehow 'professional', whatever that means, at the wedding this weekend. Maybe it's because I have long hair and a big camera and tended to hang back photographing everything rather than getting involved as much as others. Several people commented about my camera and asked if I got good pictures. While I was talking about my hobby of photographing abandoned buildings and old theatres to someone at the brunch this morning, she asked if I was going to put a book together. As I told her, it's something that I've thought about and would love to do, but I don't really know how. I certainly don't have enough material yet either. Andrea though, when I mentioned the idea in the car, seemed to think it would be a really neat thing and talked about self-publishing and selling through Amazon, or theatre gift stores.
I've daydreamed about it too. I've also thought about looking into entering my photographs in art shows and the like. When Posi and I were at the Lake County Fair, I made a point of checking out the photography exhibit. There was a lot of really great stuff there and I couldn't help but think how neat it would be to see my own work up among the pictures. I honestly think I could produce images as good or better than some of the ones there. It's something I'm going to be thinking about.
