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 doesn’t matter. When my previous pets passed away I was grateful to have so many pictures to remember them by!
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. it’s nice to be able to go to it whenever I’m feeling sentimental about him and see all of the moments we’ve shared together so far (and it’s shared with my family so they can see every update as they’re added)!
apparently Ive amassed over two thousand photos of him since I got this phone a year ago (ignore him fading and looking like a memory). my boyfriend says they all look the same but I love him and I can never have too many pictures of him tbh, Ill just put some on my computer when I need to
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 somebody—be it a relative or one of my best friends—was 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 💌
