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old photos. new york '07. [travels]
over the last couple of months, minimalism has become increasingly important to me and i have been on a journey towards minimalism for quite a while now. i plan on writing a blog post about minimalism and the significance it holds for me soon but until then i will already share where on that journey i am at the moment: photos.
in every blog post, article and essay written on the topic of photos and what to do with them, the authors seem to - without exception - offer the same response: digitalise them!
well, i have hundreds and thousands of pictures in a digital form and it's not as if they are not well organised, because they definitely are. however, when i ask myself that typical minimalist question if they "add value to my life" my answer is a very clear "no". there's too many photos. there are blurry photos, photos with a bad composition, photos from a time in my life that wasn't all that great and therefore do not elicit happy memories and sometimes there are ten photos that depict one and the same thing but i still kept them all simply because i couldn't make a decision which one was standing out or was better than the other ones. ...but there are also just too many photos is general, even if all the bad ones were in the trash where they belong and all decisions were made. i never look through them and enjoy them, i never show them to others and share memories and i most likely never will if i don't change my approach towards them. the photos just exist somewhere on my macbook and do not add value to my life.
and so i decided to improve that and select only a few photos that i truly love not from every folder but maybe from every other folder and post them here on my blog, this little corner of mine and delete the rest.
obviously, i will keep photos of family and close friends that i hold dear in my heart but i won't post those here.
and so here we go:
the first ones are photos from a short stay in new york a couple of years back:
in every blog post, article and essay written on the topic of photos and what to do with them, the authors seem to - without exception - offer the same response: digitalise them!
well, i have hundreds and thousands of pictures in a digital form and it's not as if they are not well organised, because they definitely are. however, when i ask myself that typical minimalist question if they "add value to my life" my answer is a very clear "no". there's too many photos. there are blurry photos, photos with a bad composition, photos from a time in my life that wasn't all that great and therefore do not elicit happy memories and sometimes there are ten photos that depict one and the same thing but i still kept them all simply because i couldn't make a decision which one was standing out or was better than the other ones. ...but there are also just too many photos is general, even if all the bad ones were in the trash where they belong and all decisions were made. i never look through them and enjoy them, i never show them to others and share memories and i most likely never will if i don't change my approach towards them. the photos just exist somewhere on my macbook and do not add value to my life.
and so i decided to improve that and select only a few photos that i truly love not from every folder but maybe from every other folder and post them here on my blog, this little corner of mine and delete the rest.
obviously, i will keep photos of family and close friends that i hold dear in my heart but i won't post those here.
and so here we go:
the first ones are photos from a short stay in new york a couple of years back:
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