Here was my photo library totals as of a few days ago. A very pleasing milestone that I just happened to notice! What are you at?

@jarrod I'm at 11,975 photos and 1,033 videos (and 1 item that I don't know what it is, for some reason 😆)

I periodically delete photos and videos though. Do you do the same? :))

@jarrod yikes!

@jarrod 26,861 photos and 1,191 videos. I do delete quite a bit of photos.

@chiawase I keep it somewhat curated, deleting screenshots, short-term memory stuff, and obviously bad shots. But I generally keep the rest since I don’t take a bunch of photos, despite what that number might imply. Lol

@mako Ahead in photos but lacking by half in videos! Do you feel that split as a photographer?

@pratik What’s your starting point? I think mine go back to 2008-ish.

@jarrod ya know.. never really thought about it. Took waaay more videos when the kids were small. Now taking tons of panoramic for the Vision Pro…

@mako Me too on the panos! They’re one of my favorite features, and since my phone can’t do spatial videos…

@jarrod A while back I imported all of my photos ever – from old cameras, dumb-phones, and some scanned film – into my iCloud Library, so I can view and search them all as one. So... 🥁... I'm at 133,386 photos and 2,199 videos. 🫣

@mejh 😳

@jarrod Wait until @maique shows you his number! 😇

I clean and tidy mine often keeping it under 10k (most photos uploaded to iCloud Files library)

@habibcham @jarrod 😅

@maique power user lol @habibcham @jarrod

@andycarolan @maique @jarrod Power user? He owns Apples iCloud servers. 😇😎

@habibcham ROFL @maique @jarrod

@habibcham @andycarolan @jarrod I don’t even own apples, let’s alone Apple’s…

I do have to pay them €10 a month, and it does add up 😔

@maique @andycarolan @jarrod I did some cleaning up after my birthday and Easter weekend snaps. This is my pathetic number. 😅

@habibcham @andycarolan @jarrod Not pathetic at all! How much do you delete?

@jarrod

This Photos library only dates back to July of 2021. My Synology has a few stored on it dating back to 2003 when I got my first digital camera. (I really miss Aperture!)

@maique @andycarolan @jarrod Definitely more than I keep, that’s for sure. I get snap happy to cover all angles. If I snap 10 shots of the same thing, I’ll probably end up keeping two.

@maique That is nuts! Do you have a blogpost on your workflow? I am assuming you use something like Lightroom? Are there any good non-Adobe alternatives? I miss Aperture... 😔

@habibcham @andycarolan @jarrod Most times I’ll delete the ones I don’t edit, and keep the edited and original versions of the ones I do. As you, I delete more than I keep.

@chadkoh Lightroom, yes 🙂 I don’t remember if I’ve written about (probably have), but it’s very simple:

Shoot (or import from camera); go through all of them and “favorite” the ones I’ll edit; load that into LR; edit most, ignore others;

Go back to camera roll, delete the ones that were not selected (not on favorites folder).

Upload edited ones to Flickr.

@maique @andycarolan @jarrod I think my brain has been wired to clean up my library since the early iPhones days with small storage memory.

More often I keep edited versions in my library and the original gets shifted to iCloud Files.

@maique 😳 😳 😳 I was not expecting an order of magnitude higher, but I shouldn’t be surprised! 😅

@chadkoh Whoa! You’ve filled it up quick! What’s your primary photography subject(s)?

@jarrod I should do a (MUCH) better job at cleaning this mess. A lot of that is not needed.

@jarrod Depends. I've also imported some of my scanned photos, so those go back to the date I was born. I got my iPhone in May 2009, so that's the true iPhone photos start date.

@jarrod I’m at 45,630 photos at 2,186 videos. I have been shooting digital since 2001. I also have about 8,000 not yet imported from my Google Photos library. That’s a project for after Easter break.

@plumey Best of luck to you

@jarrod Ha! I also have about 500 very old scans that my father made I need to index. Those will have to wait until my son is off from school and I can voluntell him to do them.

@plumey I did thousands of scans of my parents' family photos a few years back. It was an undertaking, to say the least.

@jarrod oof, we only had about 1800 total and most were done last year. The problem with the last set is the dates. No one knows exactly when they were taken so we have to send them to a bunch of people to “discuss”.

@jedda Whoa, hard-core! I hope you have them backed up somewhere?

@jarrod oh for sure. I back them up on an external hard drive before deleting. I just like to start the year with a clean slate but I still would like to keep my memories.

@jarrod Mostly family and Japan shots right now, I suppose. A sample: www.flickr.com/photos/sa...

@chadkoh Oh wow, those are gorgeous.