A young Spoonbill, taken in the ACE Basin at least 1 1/2 months ago.
I’m not very current, but most images have no expiration date (as discussed previously).
I am finding many things I’ve missed. I had always kept my images grouped together quarterly, four high level folders per year. It work for Lightroom catalogues too.
This changed over time and I found 2025 in only two large folders. Too big since there is still the odd day of a thousand images.
While cleaning the folders I am finding the ‘to do’ photos that have been left behind.
With luck 2026 will have smaller files and folders.
A nice find 😊
Thanks, and yeah who wants to forget a Spoonbill photo 😐.
You will never hear any complaints regarding backlogs from the Intrigued staff…glass houses ha
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Comforting to see I’m not alone in this. It’s only recently that I’ve started looking more closely at how to live with – and work around – that backlog.
A never ending struggle 😁. My wife has a unique start to the problem…slow down the frame rate for continuous shooting. 😵💫.
Yep, that’s certainly one way to deal with it – and it’s something I started doing a while ago too. Even then, though, you can still end up with several hundred photos if you don’t stop shooting in one place 🙂
If we are out and hit bird flocks,or Alligator conventions, I can shoot over a thousand shots easy. Birds in flight is a quick way to fill a card. The day we were out with the White Ibis flocks I was around 1,200 images. 😝
Ok, then comes the million-dollar question: do you pick the best and throw the rest away, or do you keep everything. I’ve always found it hard to delete photos unless they’re really bad, so I’m genuinely curious what you do in a case like that, Ted.
I first look at everything using Faststone. A great free/donation photo tool. Reads all RAW. Anything out of focus, or just plain bad are deleted. Most times I wait a while, maybe a day, and do a second pass deleting more. If I have multiple shots the same from a burst I typically delete the first few, middle shots are always the best.
If I had 500 images I would keep maybe 300 using this method. When working in post more will be removed as I work.
Not a good technical method… hard drives are cheap 🤣🤣.
I get you, Ted, and it’s honestly just as valid a method as any other. For me, though, it does mean I’ll have to start dealing – slowly – with those moments where I shoot in bursts. I usually keep everything in RAW, and until recently I kept all the JPEGs too. Drives may be cheap, but they’re not that cheap either 🙂 Thanks for sharing !
Let me know when you find the grail 🤣
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Great shot! 😄😁
Thank you 😁😁. There are a few places in these marshes that spoonbill tend to gather. We have had a cold spell and these birds tend to go about 6 hours south of here when that happens. I’m waiting for a return, or taking a long drive 🤣