This Makes No Sense At All

You would think I Photoshopped it if I just showed you the image, so I took a picture of the camera screen as proof. Abuse does not go unpunished. I  have never anticipated divine retribution, but after many months of point and shoot abuse, the Canon gods have caught up with me, opening a portal through my LCD screen to a strange new world. I presume the next step will be to physically transport me there if I do not complete the six step recovery program. 1. Acknowledge my problem: I admit, I carried my camera in my pocket, unprotected, with keys, pocket knife and other objects of a typical male pocket. 2. Acknowledge my fall into wayward way s, step by step.   a. Initially I used my shirt zipper pocket with the camera in a plastic bag, but couldn't get the camera out fast enough, so:   b. I moved it to my pants pocket, still in plastic bag, but was still missing shots.   c. I ditched the plastic bag. Better, but this is where I fell into...

We've been taking digital for five years now, and I finally got back to scanning in a 2004 PCT trip that was originally slides. As I wiled away a few hours doing this, I realized a couple of things. First, how few slides we took on a backpack trip, compared to what we do now. We had to ration ourselves to something like six slides a day. It just cost too much to to more than that, so we missed taking a lot of things I wished we had. The other thing is that I realized that I like the digital images better. The slides are sort of like the streetwalkers we see in the marginal areas of the city. An in your face attraction to them, but over done. The colors are over bright, the contrasts too great. It makes a good show, but the natural look is more to my taste. As I look at this post in 2020, I realize it is sort of a flippant male attitude, joking about women and their appearance. Nowadays I would be more thoughtful, but that was my thought back then, so I will let it stand.  Insert ...

Our workflow on Windows 10: Capture the card data (or on smartphone, plug usb cable to computer and drag) into a folder called PhotoStaging (our computer has slots built in for the various memory cards). We put the card in the slot and get a choice of programs Canon for the Canon camera card and Nikon for the Nikon camera card. Rename every image so it starts with date - time - for example: 2007-03-07_11-19-07_1222_SD700 IS.JPG This is easier than it sounds. There is a powerful free utility called Rename Master that does it once I select all the images. It pulls the date, time, camera model out of the info stored in the image. More on RenameMaster later. Sometimes at this point when all new images are in the staging folder I will use Adobe Bridge to give multiple discriptive tags to the images. I have a master folder called Photos. In there are subfolders by subject, such as birds, mammals, East Bay Regional Park...