Say, What Chu Looking At?

So this has been making the rounds, but it strikes way too close to home for me to not mention.  See, London photographers have been facing increased scrutiny due to the ongoing fears of terrorism. 

Lets face it, this is happening not just in London but everywhere.

Its gone as far as a new ad campaign by the London Metropolitan Police asking people to identify and report “odd” looking photographers.

… ODD photographers?  Do I even need to get into the insanity of this? 

I take photos of odd places.  I enjoy taking photos of abandoned places, or behind the scenes photos.  I sometimes take notes of where I’m shooting for later discussion and contemplation.

*sigh*  I suspect I won’t be long for this world.  I’ll be taking a photo on one of my walkabouts and I’ll be shot in the head for suspicious activity.  -_-;

Photo is  courtesy of BBC News.   Original post/reference courtesy of this article.

So I’ve managed to fill a 350 gig drive full of designs and mostly raw photos.  COMPLETELY FILLED.

I desperately need to do some file management before something awful happens.  That 350 gigs contains every single digital photo I’ve taken since I started shooting in 2000.  I need viable mass storage options.  The space usage is growing exponentially, every JPEG takes 5 megs, RAW files are even larger.

I need mass storage.  Blu-ray consumer drives, please come out of your infancy quickly.  Please?   *sigh*

And I need to find a better way to build my photo libraries.. Ugh..  When I look at my data dump directories I have hundreds of folders that are labeled only by date.   Data Archival Expert I am NOT.  -_-;;