Wrote a blog post about my time at the Western Colleges Consortium. I realised how few photographs I have of my time there. Did find this one of the filing cabinets in 2004 with the big format printer on top.
Oh, that’s a fax machine next to the cabinets.
I didn’t really capture what I did back then in photographs. I didn’t really do as much photography back then as I do now. Part of the reason is I am taking more photographs now, but the second reason was back in 2004, a mobile phone was for making phone calls and sending texts. You didn’t really take photographs with a phone; you used a camera. I did have a camera in 2004, actually I used two, a Canon digital SLR and a small Sony Cybershot. Both actually took good photographs (well not in low light).
Checking the EXIF data of the filing cabinet photograph I realised that this was the first time I took a photograph with my then new Sony Cybershot. That explains the weird shot. Or so I thought, it appears I have a number of Sony Cybershot photographs with a DSC00001 file name. Suspect that the numbering was reset when you either deleted the photographs from the Memory Stick or used a different stick.
In comparison in 2004 I have 1062 photographs in my Mac photos app. In 2024 I took 4517 photographs. This year I have taken less, but in 2024 I did a photo a day which usually mean me taking a lot more photographs.
Of course, before digital, using film in the 1990s and (very) early 2000s, I would probably take three or four rolls of film, with 36 photographs on each roll.