How often do you return to look at certain photos you’ve captured? Having nearly 60 000 photos saved on my computer (I really need to delete the bad ones, that would reduce it to about 20 000) I often page back through the files.
One that I always spend time looking at is the file with over 200 photos I took when finding the flamingos in the middle of the city… I really love the captures I got that day and will never delete a single one (bad or not.)
So here are a few I do enjoy, you might have seen them before….
The Photographic Journey of bulldog. 
Definitely worth seeing these over & over again.
One photographer shoots with film and doesn’t develop them for a year and ends up liking the photos that have the emotion in the photo that he felt. he finds more that he likes, He found that there are many that he might have passed up if you developers them sooner.
Glad you strolled down memory lane with your photo library and shared these flamingo pics with us. Once or twice a year I cull the really bad I’ll never use pics from my library but there are some that are bad and have meaning only I understand that will never be deleted 🙂
They’re lovely BD. Don’t you dare delete them!
That I will never do
How do you store your photos? Since my new camera arrived, I have EVEN more photos piling up! And now, 10KB per photo! I am very strict with editing the rubbish on the day I took them! If I dont, I find I just leave them on the hard disc taking up space.
I think you mean 10 megabytes, yes it is a problem and I tend to use an external drive to archive photos so as not to fill the hard drive…
So if your big external hard drive gets stolen???
Have two of them .. also certain photos uploaded to a cloud base… there they cannot be stolen…
All of those old photos have stories, it is so hard to discard the stories.
I agree Charlie… just can’t hit the delete button
I remember these beautiful flamingo photos. Thanks for the revisit Bulldog.
Thanks LuAnn… probably my most revisited file on the computer…
These photos are great to see more than once. Like reading a good book, listening to your favourite music or watching a great film over again there is always something more to appreciate.
ThanksBrian… exactly how I feel about these photos
They are so elegant and ballerina-like. Is that why you like them so much? 😉
Having never seen a ballerina dance I can’t answer that… strip shows in my young days is about the only dancing I’ve been to watch and one of those was with a snake… maybe that is where my love for the bush came from…. or not…
I learn more and more about you all the time! 😉 Strip shows! So I would imagine you prefer your birds with a bit more meat on their bones! 😉
Oh yes a woman must have shape and meat…. no skinnies for me
🙂 I knew it!
Love these photos too and don’t get sick of seeing them. I soak up your wildlife shots so bring them on – seen before or not!
Thanks Jan… kind of you to say
just a no brainer – they are stunning 🙂
They are lovely.
With the ease with which one can save on external hard drives, it is perhaps a better idea to transfer all the ‘bad’ ones to a ‘B’ file. I know to my cost that I have deleted some which I afterwards realised, substandard or not, could have filled a subsequent need.
Now that’s why I don’t want to delete…. thanks Col
Now where have I seen those before…hmmm? This made me smile Bulldog – and I never tire of these beautiful photos 🙂
Thanks Sherri
I understand why you are attached to the flamingo photos – they’re all beautiful. There is just something about the contrast of the pink against the blue of the water 🙂
I don’t take great photos so I’m more inclined to be attached to the memories that the photos represent rather than the photo itself. It makes it hard for me to delete the bad ones too.
I keep all unless they are completely out of focus… just incase I want to use them one day… but flamingos don’t get deleted. .. thanks Joanne
Impossibile riuscire a cancellare foto belle come queste, no no, queste devono restare!!!
Ciao, Pat
Thanks Pat
I wouldn’t delete any of them either. Beautiful. I share a similar love for cranes and have hundreds of photos that more than half should be deleted…. but won’t 😉
I agree Ingrid… they all bring back a memory
Those are some of your best.
Thanks Anneli… l agree
These are beautiful, I love the reflections…
Thanks Jewels
They’re amazing photos bulldog, love the reflections in the water! ❤
Diana xo
Thanks Diana…. they are some of my best work
All your work seems good to me bulldog. 🙂
Lovely pics. I sometimes go back but not often. I try to clean-up as I process the pictures by deleting the bad ones and the duplicate but it isn’t always easy to do…(Suzanne)
Thanks Suzanne… I just hate the delete button I think
I do like the flamingos here and I totally understand about needing to cull the herd some with the photos.
Yep 60 000 seem far to many…
I refuse to count just know there is a lot of gigabytes going on…
Beautiful birds, excellent captures. I wouldn’t delete any either 😉
Thank you… been over to your blog and am now following… your blog looks interesting… but as a fellow Rhodie I have to watch what you get up to…
Thank you 🙂 Much appreciated
These are beautiful!
Thanks Julie…