![]() ![]() If you spy a shot you'd like to have, say so - I may still have the double print somewhere. It should be, for so was the past itself. So, the record of my past is a little disorganized. ![]() My jumble of images represents a full life, not a still life. This shuffles them a little more each time. ![]() Occasionally I dig through them to freshen a memory or illustrate a story for a friend. For me, rough is good enough.īatches of recently developed snapshots will always sit in a cardboard box on my shelf, waiting to be winnowed, dated, and pressed into place. They're arranged roughly in the order they were taken. I finally realized that I've had my own "system" all along: The photos I've slap-happily slipped into albums over the years include a nice mix of family, travels, friends, special events, and household remodeling projects. There is no "right" way, much less a "best" way. "Never mind how others do it," Mark and Jan's method seem to say instead, each of us should organize our photographs - or not - by whatever method suits us. After all, we take our vacations, raise our children, and live our lives to suit ourselves, not others. I realized that they maintain their photos not for public display, but simply for their own pleasure. 49 Likes, TikTok video from Jacque Dalton (jacquegarzaa): 'My camera roll might look like a jumble of random photos, but every single one. Recently it occurred to me that Mark and Jan, unlike the other friends I've mentioned, have never actually shown me their photo albums. Yet like the others, it didn't feel quite right for me. When I first learned about their method, it struck me as manageable. For photos falling into several categories (like the one of me dancing with their cat Hector), double prints are pressed into service. They keep another for trips, another of their pets, still another of friends. My friends Mark and Jan maintain separate photo albums for her family and his. They serve as proofs of purchase for this life I've bought into. It nourishes me to review them now and then. While I applaud her liberation, I'm not willing to pay that price. MY friend Linda ducks the whole issue of photo albums by not taking pictures. I was grateful for this lovely albumette, but her organizational skills reminded me of my own photo-filing inadequacy. My sister Rosemary once commemorated our childhood years in our family home - a 100-year-old Wisconsin brick farmhouse - in a vinyl snapshot-sized theme album that sported an oval window in its padded leatherette cover.įor Christmas that year, she reproduced this masterpiece for each of her five siblings. It can feel like a forced march, but still her mastery awes me. After telling me what I've "missed," she plops down a Post-It note bearing my name - to mark our spot for next time. Then she narrates as she turns the pages across our laps. Each time she visits, she leads me to the sofa, her album tucked under her arm. Unlike Jane's album, Rita's has no room for printed narrative. Last year, Rita discovered a little motel in small-town Nebraska called "Rita's R and R." She posed under the bright yellow sign while Jim snapped her picture. She fills pages with weekend visits to her sister's home, the opening of Christmas gifts at her parents' farm, the dragonboat race her husband, Jim, did with his co-workers last summer. (If it's Tuesday, this must be Belgium.) Next to each picture she pastes a neatly typed paragraph telling where she was (Crete), what she was doing (parasailing), and how the weather was (perfect).Īnother friend, Rita, uses her photo albums to chronicle life's thinnest slices. My friend Jane, who takes exotic vacations, organizes each trip's pictures chronologically. Their confidence, combined with their various quirky approaches, has always amazed me. I admire friends and relatives who have elevated the keeping of their photos to an art, if not a science. Though otherwise competent, I've felt cowed by the task that others seem to enjoy. Long ago I attributed this aversion to not knowing the best way - the right way - to organize these images in their binders. As I write this, stacks of outtakes sit jumbled in a cardboard box. Hence, it can be slow and memory consuming when dealing with large images or large number of cuts.I've always dreaded filing snapshots in photo albums. The script breaks the photo into chunks, loads them in the memory and then places them randomly. If only horizontal number of cuts is defined, the vertical cut number is calculated automatically so that each chunk becomes closest to a square. A scrambled image file will be generated in the current directory.īut you can specify the horizontal AND/OR vertical cuts. You scramble a photo using this command: photo-scramble filename.jpg. So you have the necessary requirements?! ☺️ You probably already have it installed in your machine. A photo scrambler that can jumble up photos according to user input horizontal and vertical chunks! Requirements: ![]()
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