Like my father before me I take pictures of everything. My entire childhood is meticulously documented in videos and photos and stored on an external hard drive. When my pets have died in the past I would have to search through all of my pictures and manually add the 2,000-3,000 photos I had of each of them to an album. I started a Google Photos album of Benny the day I got him. itās nice to be able to go to it whenever Iām feeling sentimental about him and see all of the moments weāve shared together so far (and itās shared with my family so they can see every update as theyāre added)!
I have about as many photos of my cat Bunny too. But I make frequent use of search in the iPhone photos app and Google photos so it doesnāt matter. When my previous pets passed away I was grateful to have so many pictures to remember them by!
My dad is the same way so my childhood is like extensively and obsessively documented in photos, tens of thousands of them. I started taking his cameras and using them to take pictures of everything and anything that caught my eye or that I thought was interesting whether that was places, plants, animals, people, or random objects. I donāt really have a camera that I use now (i do have a shitty point and shoot languishing in a case somewhere) and i should probably get back on that as a hobby but I always make sure to get iPhone models with a zoom lens when itās time to upgrade and I continue that habit of just snapping photos of everything that piques my interest and theyāre automatically backed up to my Google Photos library!
My dad teases me about how when I was a little kid, my favorite thing to do when I was on the landline phone with somebodyābe it a relative or one of my best friendsāwas to breathlessly describe the things that were in my bedroom so that they could have a mental picture of everything I loved and chose to surround myself with, and where I sat at that moment in time. Perfectly Imperfect reminds me of that so thanks for always listening and for sharing with me too š
