A few weekends ago, we headed to Swan Valley for lunch and decided to swing by Yahava KoffeeWorks after lunch. It was pretty busy with tourists and locals alike. If you’re a coffee and tea enthusiast, it’s a cool shop to check out. They sell all things coffee and tea related, from beans through to coffee quotes on magnets.
We were there to buy a coffee plunger and some ground coffee beans. As there were so many options to choose from, what better way to decide than do a coffee tasting. They used an Aeropress to make our coffees. The 3 hot cups of coffee was a lovely way to warm up a cold and rainy winter day. All the images here were taken with the Fujifilm X-T10 and the 35mm f1.4 lens.
All this coffee talk and photo editing has prompted me to contemplate on my current photography pain points.
- A massive backlog of photos from my travels (I know… first world problem) that I still need to process and edit.
- A better photo back up solution as I rapidly run out of storage capacity on my laptop.
- Curating my favourite images and updating my portfolio of images on my website to reflect my current photographic style and interests.
I have around +13000 photos in my Lightroom catalogue that are yet to be reviewed, processed and edited. I mostly shoot JPEG & raw so that technically brings it down to +6500 unique photos. They are mostly photos from my travels in the last 2 to 3 years. It includes New Zealand (almost there!), Singapore, Thailand, Japan, Tasmania, Hungary, Bulgaria and Bali. I feel very fortunate to have those travel experiences and moments over the years so I’m certainly not complaining. Between full time work and other commitments outside of work, I haven’t found a lot of free chunks of time to go through my photos.
More recently in the last month, I have done a number of photowalks and casual shoots that I haven’t had a chance to upload from my memory card onto the laptop because of pain point number 2. I spent a bit of time in August researching external drive options. I have settled for a 4TB harddrive to store photos that I’ve already completed the edit. This frees up laptop space which has an SSD to store the current photos I’m editing.
My final pain point. My current portfolio of images on my website were curated over 3 years ago when I first started this website. Quite possibly around or before the time I jumped shift from Canon to Fujifilm camera system. While there are still a few images I like from that era of my photography, I think I have very much evolved in my style and interests in photography. So it no longer really represents what and how I’m currently shooting. I feel a bit overwhelmed thinking about going through my massive photo catalogue to pick out 20 to 40 images. I think the retrospective review and curation process is a very important part of photography. It will hopefully show me my progression through photography and give me more clarity around my style of photography and post-processing look I like.
As with many things in life, photography is a work in progress and a journey, but a fun one at that. Photography to me is a fun side hobby so I will take the time and space required to work through my pain points. Thanks for stopping by today.
J.
Hi Janice
It turns out that we have more in common that just Fuji X cameras. I am also a coffee-head. I use to visit with the local baristas more often before I learned how to make excellent pour-overs at home but I’m a sucker for hot espresso drinks.
That’s awesome! I’ve only more recently started drinking pour overs at home. It’s quite a treat to do that at home