Paranomic Panoramic Ponderings

This is what happens when we have too many photos taken, too little time to rename them, and a lousy memory.

While having a digicam makes things much more convenient where all things now are just point and shoot and there's none of that worrying about having enough film or the horrors of exposed negatives, now even a simple trip can result in hundreds of photographs. Hmmm, the days where a trip would be recorded in one or two film rolls of 36 shots are hard to remember.

Anyway, to be honest it isn't as if we went trigger happy and took hundreds of photos a day. Like for our Barcelona trip, admittedly the first day saw -opens picture folder on Day 1, Ctrl-A, reads Properties- 184 photos, but it soon dwindled to about 20 photos a day after that. Even those taken in the half hour we had in Amsterdam numbered only 28.

Then again we were busy looking for space cakes in that short time we had there.

So. Plenty of photos, and rather short-term memory. Which is normally fine because in the first week upon returning and organizing the photos, we can remember enough details to rename them the way we like, which is:

yymmdd - Location - Description

Take, for example, this one. It goes 081003 - Amsterdam Centraal - View 06. Well if we were more hardworking we'll go look up the particular street (which we have no idea considering we randomly walked down alleys at that point) and instead of 'View 06' we'd call it 'Erotic Shop'. Screw it, we're getting a tad lazy after renaming loads of photos.

Goes to show why we sometimes blog about it too. That way if we can't remember the details from the pictures, the blog's there to help refresh the memory. Okay, so we'll have to blog about Amsterdam too.

We wonder, if we had a better memory would we have just left photos named 'img001', 'img002' etc?

Right - so now that we're done renaming all our Barcelona pics, we've also manage to stitch up some pics we took for panorama shots. Click on 'em to enlarge.

Grand Copthorne Waterfront, Sporeland. Very nice room setup. However, we've only ever slept on one-third of the entire bed. We dislike the fact that due to the heat and our copious sweating, we had to drape our laundry on the chairs, thus the room's aesthetics suffer.

Barcelona Marina views. We really. Really wonder how people can work with such magnificent views of the sea towards the south, and a view of the city to the north.

The quick drop-by into Amsterdam. It's been 5 years already. Sigh. No idea where's this called, just that we popped out of Amsterdam Centraal, crossed this bridge and decided to take a few photos first. Part of the IJ?

The bedroom in Resort Hotel. Nice cosy place. More interestingly, initially when we entered the room we shut the curtains so that we could take photos of the room. Then we found the room to be cosier with the lights on instead of bright daylight. So we left the curtains shut.