A guest post from the brilliant Kevin Littleton at kevinlittleton.blogspot.com
Keeping Memories
Don’t delete photos too quickly. I don’t delete anything when I’m taking pictures somewhere because looking at them on that tiny lcd screen doesn’t give you a clear view of what it really looks like. When you get home and upload those pictures to your computer you get the real look. You can’t really tell what a picture looks like from your camera. Some of my best shots were later “discovered” after going through them on my computer. Then there is Photoshop where you can take those “awful” shots and touch them up to make them look “better”. Remember though, when in doubt make them black and white and then they instantly become art!
To take this practice further I don’t delete a single photo. Ever.
The reason behind not deleting any pictures is because each picture is a memory and each memory is something beautiful that needs to be remembered. So what if the picture isn’t artistically sound, it’s your picture and it’s your memory.
Not all my pictures are in focus or of anything particularly exciting but I do keep them all. I don’t want to throw away memories. It’s the same thing as writing in a journal. Let’s say you had a bad day and you write about it in your journal or diary. Just because it was a bad day would you crumple up that piece of paper out of your journal or delete that entry from the computer? I hope you don’t because you can use that bad day later to grow and learn from. Each memory in our head is equally important. We need them.
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