Processing the camera gets done regularly because is important to me as I've heard too many sad stories about cameras containing irreplaceable images getting lost. Once the pictures are on the computer they are backed up and safe on the hard drive, in Dropbox and (eventually) on the external hard drive, too. The other motivator is that my mother loves to see pictures of the children!
Gretchen Rubin gave some splendid advice in Happier At Home about dealing with her backlog of photos -- she set herself to work at it for 15 minutes a day using a timer.
Processing my notebooks happens less often, mainly because I'm disorganised and have too many in too many different places. But here is something I found in a notebook.
It is titled '50 things', but I must have got interrupted halfway through.
- Indigo/cobalt blue
- Coast line
- Sailing ships
- Washing on the line
- Sleeping in the sun
- Leafless branches
- Running water
- Big blousy flowers carelessly arranged
- Wafer biscuits
- Seeds inside a fruit
- Vintage packaging
- Art deco swimming pools
- Frida Kahlo
- Willow pattern
- Mountains next to the sea
- Log cabins
- Embroidered images
- Radish flowers
- Shells
- 1940s bathing costumes
- Iron beds
- Dresses with big skirts and nipped in waists
- Chinese lanterns
