Adding a New Link……

I have managed to get out a few times to take pictures recently when the weather cooperated as we have been having a pretty good winter so far. On the bad days I have been sorting, rating and cataloging a serious backlog of my work. This brings me to a couple of new sites that I have found to be extremely helpful. One is an online weather station for the Eastern Sierra……Dennis Mattinson’s Eastern Sierra Weather Center. This is a great resource and I am adding a permanent link on this blog.

The second site is one funded by the Library of Congress. It is dpBestflow.org. It is a series of videos on the management of digital libraries and is hosted by Peter Krough. His books on digital asset management(DAM) are standards in the industry. This is an area that a lot of photographers have problems, how to handle all the files that we generate with our digital cameras. I know this has been an ongoing problem for me, as I have had several tries that failed after a lot of hard work. I am in the process now of re-cataloging my library so that my workflow will be more productive.

One of the benefits of forcing myself to do this is that I have gone back through and have gotten rid of a lot of stuff that I will never use. Images that I saved because……oh, someday I might want to do something with it. I have a general rule about my analog housekeeping, personal belongings and such, that if I haven’t used it in the last six months to a year, I get rid of it. While going through my digital library it dawned on me that I wasn’t carrying over this rule for my business. So what do I have? Several HDD’s full of “stuff”. With this re-cataloging I am getting rid of anything that I have rated lower than 3 stars and these are being reevaluated with a very critical eye.

I found this to be a little difficult at first, but then I realized that it was really freeing me to concentrate on the very best that I have. So, ever onward and upward. So far I have gotten through 2009. Next up, 2008. And with the new system I am hoping that I won’t have to go through this again.

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