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I use Google Photos for my phone camera photos, and sometimes upload edits to access them easily. I have a Lightroom catalog with lots of photos, and just a few on the Lightroom cloud, which I've been using more. I don't have any fancy way to tie these together, so I kind of have to dig to find a photo on occasion.

But some people also say—when recounting old stories or explaining how something came to be, or describing what came before, or where they used to live—that they wish they had more pictures from those times. This seems more agreeable, what you should be recording are not the destination events of life so much as the much more mundane things: rainy ... See more

You notice a lot more of the world, which is the point, because observation is a skill to be developed, and a necessary one before understanding aesthetics.

me smiling at you because i didn't hear anything you just said https://t.co/By0UuUe3Fw

In pictures from a road trip to the Yosemite valley, pictures of the Yosemite vistas were not the most interesting interesting. What was interesting was seeing my uncle and mother as children, and how they got on in their RV.

“It’s nature, it’s life. I’ll take it however it comes. Honestly, it doesn’t scare me. At 65, I’ve done it all. I’m moving on. As [my partner] Daniel always says, we have maybe 10 years, 20 years, ahead of us. We’re going to take advantage of it. I still like doing new things. I know that, from the moment I retire, I will earn a lot less. But that ... See more

A lot of people think that photography disconnects the viewer from the world, imagining for instance the person holding their phone at a concert, but I think often it’s the opposite. Practicing photography compels you to ponder what is meaningful and beautiful in your surroundings. Once you gain this aesthetic self-discovery, it stays with you fore... See more