Lee Durant

Archive – Ginger Surprise

Saturday, June 19th, 2010

I was up till about 4.30am this morning sorting out my Image Archive into a 1TB Hard Drive… you know how it is when you get started with something and you cant stop till you’re finished. I got into a rhythm and get real satisfaction from having all my shit is one sock!

I now have the enviable task of renaming, cataloging, matadata and keywording and then Backing up of 250,000 images that include RAW and JPG files, PSD’s and a few movies…. It makes me wish I’d been on the ball with my archive from the start. Hindsight is a wonderful thing!

It was a refreshing look at some old images though, and having a cursory look through the folders on 4 different external hard drives made me realise just how many images I have festering in their naughts and zeros form with little hope of ever seeing the light of day let alone getting them published anywhere. (more…)

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