The Backburner

The backburner is the name I have given the folder of photos that been uploaded to my computer but have yet to be color corrected, cropped, backed up in their edited form, uploaded to the web and posted on the blog. And it is huge folder... October 26th - December 15th and I’ve still got to add everything from mid-December til now. I spent most of yesterday organizing the interviews which had been sitting in my camera bag. Which although that sounds like very little, double checking the photos with the interviews to make sure I put the right names and faces in the correct order takes a fair bit of time. For every photo I’ve not uploaded that means figuring out which of 9 CF cards to look at, and where in that 14.5gb is the single image of the person I’m looking for. The logical solution would to be of course, upload the photos. However until I organize everything in the backburner, there is no space on my computer because I’ve acquired a sizable backlog. Somewhat of a catch 22 here: If I want to get ride of the huge back log I need to catch up on uploading. In order to have space to upload I need to be rid of the backlog. And in order to have enough free memory to run photoshop and do the postprocessing necessary to get through the backlog, I need space - which can only be found by getting rid of the backlog. So as it stands I have barely 1% free on my computer to process things, I have 9 CF cards waiting to be uploaded, I have 161 interviews to type and I still have limited free time. I beginning to think this project will not finish in the 365 days, but rather that plus a few weeks to sort through all the files. Anyways, I just wanted to inform you all that I’m still alive, still shooting portraits and interviewing people daily and hopefully will have updates here in the not so distant future.

Song of the Week:
Jenny Don’t be Hasty - Paulo Nutini