Words Matter
The process of forming ideas
You’ve all heard how important it is to add metadata to your digital library in the form of keywords, location, etc. It helps keep you organized. It helps the machine keep those tens of thousands of images organized. It helps you find those images you made years afterwards in case you need them. It’s certainly not bad advice that many of us happily ignore or at best do a half-hearted, lax job of. At least many of our cameras automatically geotag those thousands and thousands of pictures we’ve not seen in lately.
Most of us probably have slipshod keyword libraries but we can depend on increasingly better AI to search images without lifting a finger. We can even depend on the machine to pick the best images for us as well, we wouldn’t want to do that ourselves now that we’re making frames at 30fps. Today I want to reflect on the value a once ubiquitous process that has all but disappeared — keeping a notebook. A real paper and pencil notebook when making pictures.