07/29/07 – 08/11/07

Abby and I have gone on separate vacations, and we both agreed to edit each other’s stuff while the other one was away. Abby got through most of mine, and I have just now completed going through, editing, and cataloging all of her folders. Whew hoo! I feel it is a big accomplishment. I have seen every single Arrow Rock photo taken in the past year that is known to exist except for Rita’s Easter stuff. Glass of champagne anyone? Ok, perhaps too soon to celebrate. I have also reorganized the hard drive, and have been spending time creating a system of folders that combine’s everyone’s selects into relevant categories: either people (like the Hodges) or events (like the Burning of the Greens) or other important AR fundamentals (like the Country Store). This way everything on a particular story, person, event, etc. is all in one place. This is the first real organizational step. It will show us just how much we have to include in the book, and looking at photos this way will help Abby and I determine whether we keep people’s stories whole, or insert other pictures into them when needed (I vote for breaking up a story only if it’s grossly lacking.) We can also create sections like Boardwalk Banter or AR moments, or whatever, by pulling from everyone’s takes. This is going to take a long while to do, I think. It would have been wise to do this as we were going along, but unfortunately we didn’t think or agree upon it until afterwards. I almost feel like we’re retracing our steps, by going back into everyone’s folders that we just selected through. It would have been much easier to combine these two steps into one process. Or better yet, if we had used a program like iView, we could create catalogues of pictures using keywords without copying pictures and adding to the space consumed on the hard drive. Of course I didn’t even think of that until now. Another note for the next book maker I guess! The silver lining is that it makes us review the photos a second time…guess that can’t hurt…only our time management skills, anyway!

So far I have sorted:

Andrew Church
Kyle Coburn
Alex Cooney
Kit Doyle
Shane Epping
Ashley Futrell
Sky Gilbar
Ashley Henry