Idea

Earlier this week I went through my entire backup hard drive and searched through the thousands of photos that I have kept from over the years. I tend to be a little neurotic about saving photos, I keep absolutely everything. I 98% of the images I have shot over the some ten odd years I have saved. I've gone through five cameras now and I have folders for each one. I'm not sure why I separate them by camera, it just seemed natural I guess, possibly in the future I could go back and categorize them by color or something. Anyway I was looking through all these photos and I found ones that I really don't even remember taking. Images that I snapped while walking down the street, with friends, wherever. It was actually quite emotional looking through what was basically my life for the last ten years.

As I went through the hordes I grabbed singles that stood out to me for whatever reason and put them in a separate folder on the desktop. Once I was done with this I was really amazed at what I had come up with. I immediately saw similarities throughout the images both formally and conceptually. It's like my mind really has worked in the same way all these years, even if I didn't know it. I started paring like images and it began to read some how logically, just like a book. It blew me away so much that I think I just might have to make it into a book. Pictures taken in completely different location under totally different mind sets somehow came together as one. I like to hope that this is some sort of testament to my photographic eye but hey who knows. I think that this is a seriously beneficial exercise that any photographer who's as insane about keeping photos as I am should go through. Here are just a few: