Going through older work including slides from more than a decade ago and keep hearing the voices of archiving. “Hey Heath, the best way to be a better shooter is to get a larger garbage can”, ie, edit, edit, edit (and trash the rest) and the polar opposite of “there’s still 100+ GB of room left in the archives”, ie, keep everything that comes through.

Feel like I’ve transitioned from the former to the latter. With drive space as cheap as it is and getting cheaper why not save the edit time and keep it all. Doesn’t mean that the garbage gets out to everyone but it’s great to save the time of all the stars and ratings that DAM advocates can’t get enough of. And in the end, it’s always enjoyable to dig into the archives and find the gems.

Found these from an adventurous project in Ecuador a few years back. Don’t trash images – keep ‘em all and sort ‘em later. Imagine if you still had all those negatives from your past floating around to go through?