Wheat fields, Mintaro

The wheat is ripening beautifully under the warm sun, but an average harvest is predicted for this year. Not sure why.

Tonight I am stunned o realise how many photos we all take. I just heard on a dvd about photography that in the year it was made, 2010, 80 billion photographs would be taken worldwide. It seemed way too many. But there are 6 billion people to spread it around, that is only a dozen photos each. Not everyone in the world takes photos, but that massive number now seems possible. So I looked in my own collection - I have 13,339 photos on this computer! That doesn't include all the images that I have deleted. I notice that since I started blipping in May this year my daily tally has risen a lot, probably averaging between 20 - 30, with up to 143 on a big day.

If I keep going like this in another decade I will have maybe twenty thousand images stored away - far to many to look at. There must be many people like me. What are we going to do with all these images? Eventually we will die and leave a mind-boggling number of images behind, and our kids won't want them (except a few hundred perhaps) and wouldn't have time to sort through them all. They will be building their own big collection.

So I am going to start deleting savagely. What I enjoy most about photography is taking a new picture, not looking at my old ones. What is so clever about blip is that only a limited number of photos are stored, special photos that meant something on the day.