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Old 05-09-2023, 07:06 PM   #9
timun
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I have a few backed up on a hard drive, but you know what I really do to manage them?








I don't take photographs anymore.


And I don't feel bad about it at all. After visiting family in DC in 2014 and being harangued by twits scrambling for the best selfies they could muster in front of the statue in the Lincoln Memorial, while I and a handful of others quietly observed from afar and read the inscriptions of the Gettysburg Address and his inaugural address carved into the sides of the building, and after being sent a link to an Atlantic article called "The Facebook Eye", it all just clicked: the obsession with taking photos is ####ed.
The tail of Facebook documentation has come to wag the dog of lived experience.
I firmly believe that. People spend more effort mindlessly snapping photos than just living for the moment. I have a handful of photographs from that 2014 trip, including a pretty cool shot from the top of the steps at the Lincoln Memorial looking east toward the Washington Monument and the reflecting pool, but I mostly sent them to a handful of family. Otherwise, I don't share them.





Probably not the answer you were looking for, but...

Spoiler!
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