I’ve already gone back to my archived CDs or DVDs of digital captures made a couple years ago and found that I disagree with my earlier edit in some cases. So while I narrow down the folders on my working hard drive to a fairly tight edit, I do keep “everything” on optical disc archives. Of course even so we don’t yet have digital storage solutions as permanent as real film and proof sheets, but maybe these discs will last until a better answer comes along.
The story: On this late afternoon in the spring I had finished carefully photographing a few gulls by the lake shore and was returning to my car to put my gear away and leave when the sky around and above me was filled with wheeling gulls. There was no time to set up a tripod or carefully compose a shot, but I think this image captures my surprise as I found myself in the middle of this flock
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