I bought my first digital camera in the late 1990s. It was an Olympus and I believe it took pictures at 640 x 480. I subsequently replaced it with another Olympus digital, but I don’t remember much about it outside of the fact that everything was better, speed and quality.
As soon as Apple announced iPhoto, I started piling my stash into the application (as opposed to a folder full of photos in the Finder that I managed myself). I have updated my Mac incrementally, year by year, and of course moved my photo library along from Mac to Mac.
My first photo in my Photos library is from early 2000. It’s a screenshot of my Earthlink settings for Mac OS X Public Beta in the Internet Connect application.
Now? I have 20,000+ photos. I take as many as I like on my iPhone and the photos show up there. I manually add photos from my Olympus E-PL5 mirrorless camera as well.
I like to load up Photos and browse; sometimes I’m looking for something, but often I’m just nosing about. What do I see?
- Bicycles
- Kids
- Cats
- Dogs
- Food… lots of food
- Things I’ve tried to repair: Car parts. Lawn mowers.
- Did I mention food?
- Vacations in Ocean City, NJ; NYC; Vermont; Washington, DC; Disney World
- Fishing trips
- Model rockets
- Our swimming pool
- Computers, Keyboard, and iPads
- Inside jokes
- Cars, owned or lusted after
- First days of school
- Graduations and celebrations
- Holidays
- Toys
In short?
A life.