2/14/2006

Filing System

I've been good with everything that is in the Prints for Sale section. If it's a negative, or a digital capture, I've got the source filed. That alone took me something like two months of incremental tedium. Now I get a request for a shot that hasn't been on the site for a long time: a little girl with her tongue out letting snow fall on it.

When did I shoot that? I don't have a clue. I remember where I was standing (the pharmacy was behind me. Corner of 2nd avenue and 80th street). But time is elusive. It couldn't have been this winter? No way. And it wasn't last winter.

So off I go on a merry chase. Did I shoot it digital? Film? I figure it was probably digital, but maybe not. I go through all the digital stuff from 2004 and 2005. Gadzooks, I shot a heck of a lot of digital in that overlapping year from July 2004 to July 2005. And so many shots that I can't figure out why? What in the hell was I thinking shooting the same thing over and over again. Definitely a hit and mostly miss feeling.

So now it's off to negative land. That's going to be an archeological dig for sure. There's no way around this sort of stuff. If the negative has been offered for sale, then I have it handy. But if it's just some bit that someone thinks of a couple of years later --

On the other hand, I almost always find something else worth a test print on these expeditions so it's not a total loss.

Anyway - how long do you think the Cheney stuff will last on the late night shows. I'm giving it a week unless he shoots someone else.

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