SUMMARY: Counting JPEGs, plus dogs on chairs.
I have this many mostly unique JPEGs labeled with the following names of my dogs:
 | Boost | 2786 |
 | Tika | 2720 |
 | Jake | 336 |
 | Remington | |
 | Sheba | 10 |
| Amber | 26 |
The numbers make some sense, because Amber and Sheba were before I became a photography monster and before digital, so I don't have that many to begin with, and I've scanned only a few of those.
Amber was my first dog and my special pal, whereas Sheba, although an important part of the family, always treated us like a nice place to visit between excursions into the wild, so either I didn't take as many of her or I didn't feel inclined to scan in as many as for Amber.
Remington, as my first agility dog and the first one I really thought about documenting in photos--and probably my main Heart Dog so far--has quite a few more than the earlier dogs in my photo albums, but still many fewer than the later dogs. Somewhere around 2003 I started having my film photos scanned to disk at the same time they were processed, so have a few digitized photos of him, but the rest I scanned in one at a time, and that's time consuming, so haven't done many.
(But...huh...there are a bunch more photos on his assorted web pages, and they don't show up in my disk search that found only 37. Hm. Wonder how I labeled them? Early in my digital photo age, I had a tendency to label photos like "Rem" or "dog" or "R". Aha! Yep, that revealed a lot more than 37.)
Anyway, he died in 2003, a few months before I bought my first digital camera in December of 2003, when Tika was almost 3. My dog photo count started going up faster and faster.
Jake was around just long enough (he died in 2007) for me to also get my first digital SLR in 2006 -- and that's when things really started taking off.
How I've managed to have more of Boost than of Tika, not entirely sure--except that by the time I got the digital camera, the fascination with Tika as a "new dog" was long gone, whereas I've been shooting digital like crazy for Boost's whole life.
Makes me want to go lounge in a chair with my dogs. Or a bed. Oooh, that sounds good.
Hey, that's a pretty neat little snapshot of history. Amazing how technology has changed over the years.
ReplyDeleteI'm still waiting for the wireless connector that transfers words and photos directly from my brain to the computer.
DeleteI don't have a lot of photos of Bonnie, our sheltie before Katie...though I found her baby book and that was fun. I have only one of Daisy, the sheltie before Bonnie. Now Katie, I have over 1000 shots every year of her 6 years. Sigh.
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