It started with a simple idea. Doesn’t it always. In order to carry out this simple idea I needed to review 20 years worth of images which were organized neatly in folders by year/month/event but even digitally that’s a lot of folders. In that moment I decided that since I had finally developed a Lightroom workflow which included tagging all current images, now was time to tag every image I had. Great they’re finally tagged! (No more phone calls, do you remember the name of the person who blah blah blah.)
Of course, like all projects I devise that involve a certain amount of OCD invariably there was scope creep. Boy is it annoying that when I call up all images tagged X they don’t sort nicely, let’s go rename all those old images properly yyyymmdd_xxx_desc. And then finally, the inevitable, am I sure I scanned everything I would want scanned? Better make sure, so I hooked up the scanner and flipped through the old analog albums. Turns out quite a few new scans were made (I’m not totally insane, I’m not going to worry about dust marks until I want to use the image for something.)
I love this project now that it is complete.
So it should have come as no surprise to me to find myself reviewing the iTunes database. My phone upgrade date is less than two weeks away, and all those songs I ripped from CDs without thinking about the cover art are not going to look pretty on the retina display, are they? I didn’t think so. If you need me, I’ll be here cleaning up music.