emus rock!

so today . . . i've been working on my digital photo files--AGAIN! it is a never ending job, although i am happy to say that i am off to a good start with my 2009 photos. they are nicely sorted, and i have ruthlessly deleted the mediocre ones. of course, i have probably only taken 20 photos this year--mostly of my valentine flowers and birthday cake--but still . . .

since my 2009 photos are under control and my 2008 photos are all organized, i have moved on to 2007. it is almost done except for the pictures of the trip rollie and diandra took to australia. let me just say right here that the folder i am working on is over 4.5 gb!! that's right, GIGABYTES! these are not just rollie & diandra's photos--they are the combined photos of everyone who went on the trip. there are multiple shots of everything! and my sorting and deleting is somewhat complicated by the fact that i didn't go on the trip, so sometimes i see a photo that looks totally random, but i think that maybe it has some meaning for them.

with such a huge volume of pictures, i have had to divide them into sub-folders and deal with each one individually. then i click through all the pictures in each folder and delete the obvious ones--the ones that are out of focus, or that have unfamiliar people in them, or when there are 14 shots from the same angle of the opera house . . . then i go back and look at each picture more closely to decide what to keep and what to delete.

today i was working on the folder from their day at steve irwin's zoo. it was one of their best days, they said, and they took plenty of pictures! so as i am clicking quickly through the pictures, i come to the emus. and i started laughing! it was such a funny series of shots. in fact, the emus sort of reminded me of someone . . .














but i'm not saying who . . .

it has been fun to work with the pictures from this trip. they had such a good time together, and you can see that in their photos. it was a once in a lifetime opportunity, and i am so glad we were able to work it out so they could both go. i'm probaby going to post some more pictures from this trip in the next few weeks. with over 4 gb of photos to choose from, you know there are some really good ones . . .