In regards to Nicole, it seems like it broke one of the fan blades on the five bladed fan on my patio. It was over 40 years old and the connection to the fan was of weak plastic, so it may have finally just fallen off. I had moved the tables on the patio together and against the wall so they were less likely to blow around. That meant the table outside that was under it could have broke. The blade fell straight down and we had no other damage, so it likely didn't take much wind. It might have happened even without the hurricane. For Ian I took the blades off, but didn't for Nicole. I got home Saturday evening and didn't notice any other damage around. A staghorn plant had fallen from where it was hanging but we hung that back up and a light cover was crooked that just needed to be straightened. We had taken those things down too for Ian.
With just my digital pictures, I have over 60,000 pictures.
I organize them in folders like this, with some of the subfolders included as an example:
Animals
Around My Neighborhood
Around the House
- Canal
- Various
- Yard
-- Plumeria
-- Rest of Yard
Around the US and World
- Tennessee
- Travel
-- Europe
Around Town and Florida
- Tampa
-- Downtown
-- Gasparilla
-- Lowry Park Zoo
- Orlando
- Pinellas County
- Walt Disney World
Family
Fireworks
Food
Friends
In The Sky
- Blimps
- Clouds
- Conjunctions
- Drones
- Helicopters
- International Space Station
- Moon
- Planes Flying Over
- Sun
Weather
- Cold
- Fog
- Hurricanes
- Lightning
- Rain
- Rainbows
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For a folder, I do something like this:
2022-11-21 - Dolphins (lots)
I saw more dolphins in my canal a few days ago than I have ever seen at once, so when I eventually organize the 6,000+ pictures I haven't yet organized into my pictures folder, that's what I would do.
If it spans multiple days, I might create another folder or just do "2022-11-21,22".
I have an entire suitcase full of photos I brought home from Tennessee. It's packed very full. Plus a few hundred more that didn't fit. I have no clue how many pictures there are, but I wouldn't be surprised if it's 5,000. Or even closer to 10,000. I took the pictures out of albums in order as best I could and put them in zip lock bags. A lot of them were loose in boxes. There were also probably around 25 picture envelopes like you used to get when you develop photos. I'll put those into sealed plastic bags too. There was only one album where I couldn't take the pictures out because they were glued in to the pages. (don't do that!) I scanned the whole pages in that album.
I did have a bit of an issue with the scanner I was using. I don't know if it's the temperature, humidity or using the scanner too much, but the glass was getting scuffed up by the ribbon going across the old printer/scanner I brought back from Tennessee. I was thinking about trying to open it up and clean it. Or just not using that part of the scanner. But also, that scanner created vertical lines after awhile and I had to stop. But then I remembered that while I had already tried two other scanners I had during Ian when I tried scanning my pictures, I actually have two more that are even newer. I saved the printer/scanner combos that someone had given me and even though the printers don't work or we rarely use them, I can still use the scanners.
But they are all flatbed scanners, or even if they have document feeders those are for documents, not pictures. So I bought this scanner too:
https://www.amazon.com/Plustek-Photo-Scanner-Sensor-Support/dp/B01LZJH63M/
Which will arrive next week. You can just feed the photos in and if it works it would be much easier. The review are generally good, but some people do mention issues. Amazon had a deal where you get a $100 gift card if you signup for a credit card and then another offer where if you reload $100 onto an Amazon gift card for the first time, only applicable if they show you that offer, you get $10. So I got $110 off.
But for most of the photos I don't know when they are from or for many who they are. I'll have to ask family. Some have captions on the back. I scan a photo and then if it has a caption I scan the back of the photo right after. I am uploading pictures to Google Drive. I am uploading them by scan date for now.
So like this:
scanned_pictures/2022-11-22
I wait until I have an album done, or a group of photos that were together, and then upload them to a folder in that like:
Batch 1
Or:
Album 1
Or if I can group quite a few together, I'll actually create a folder with what it is.
Later I'll have to organize them. If I organize them as I upload them, then people wouldn't know what they have seen so far. I would like to create another section where they are organized, and where they are properly cropped, but space might be an issue unless I sign up for another account perhaps. Or delete some of the old folders of pictures labeled by when I scanned them. Sometimes I scan three photos at a time. Or more if they are small. And eventually I'll have to crop them. I might do that more as I go to make them more easily viewable. If that scanner I buy works, it might do it for me. But sometimes I guess auto-cropping doesn't go well. |