I lived in Africa for five years, and, turned off by all those expats who seemed to be taking pictures of, rather than experiencing, their lives there, took not a single photo until my final week, when I shot a couple of rolls of film. It being the third world, it turned out that the film i'd purchased was ancient, and very few of the photos turned out. I can't help but wish i'd been carrying around some unintrusive point-and-shoot dealie in my pocket for five years and had an album of snapshots to help me so many events, people, places that i've undoubtedly not remembered.
Also, to me there is a fundamental difference in not recording personal sights and settings except in one's memory and not bemoaning the loss of what is a substantial library, in effect. There has been some fine writing-- humor, essays, even pieces of a literary nature-- that will never be duplicated, posted on some of the SI threads. I wish now i had been creating an archive all along.
I will check out the links you gave. (I wish you'd do it first!) From reading what crow said, i'm not sure it's what i want. Which is to save a few entire threads, for culling later. Do you think you might be able to do that with your software for the CL thread? |
