13 years

Today I have accomplished a significant feat: the consolidation of my various Picasa accounts into one; the last 13 years of my life are now documented in 224 albums with 7,574 pictures; curiously, Google doesn’t provide much in terms of statistics, I had to manually add them all up; this represents an average of almost 600 pics a year.

Geo-tagging is incomplete, as a lot of these pictures have been taken with my various digital cameras rather than my phones, so EXIF data are spotty at best: browsing through the pictures I see a number of locations:

• Basiglio
• Lardirago
• St Raphael
• most of the US west coast, all the way to Alaska
• selected US east coast cities
• various places in France, UK, Germany, Russia, Kazakhstan, Turkey, Spain, Norway, Sweden, Belgium and Holland as destinations of my business trips

but also an amazing array of situations:

• marriages
• moves, both personal and business
• houses we did buy, others we did not
• pets, including my lovely big red cat Cal and our little dog Pina, who are no longer with us
• kids growing, grownups getting (a little) older
• business events and situations
• ImageTime–>Brodeur–>Pleon–>KetchumPleon–>cc:catalfamo
• New Years and Carnival celebrations
• Christmas dinners
• summer holidays
• birthday parties

and there are also pics of some special people no longer with us (like my grandma and a couple of uncles) and some new people who arrived in the meanwhile (my daughter Aurora and my nieces Cecilia, Chiara and Livia). All of these pictures I regard as mine, as they are, but if I ever wanted to move them over to, say, Flickr it would not be that easy.

But this is part of my Digital Self rant, check it out.

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