Photographic memories

When I was a little girl the appearance of a camera was a very rare thing.  My parents used to buy a reel of film when we went on holiday and that would result in eight photographs.  I have no photographs of birthday parties, few of picnics or days out.  The record was in my memory.

I have precious photographs of my grandparents and great grandparents and those would also have been precious to them as so few photographs were taken

These days phone cameras are everywhere.  Videos are taken of baby's first steps, of every day out, of fairly ordinary meals.  It's very useful too for remembering where we parked our cars, taking a picture of the shopping list, recording garden produce.

I was listening to a podcast recently when a proud dad said he had over a quarter of a million photos on his smartphone.  OK, within the last couple of years he had got married and become a dad.  Others involved in the podcast had up to fifteen thousand.  And I've sat and waited while someone has found a special photo hidden among thousands of others so they can tell me about their grandchildren.  

I checked my phone.  I have twelve photos on it, mostly taken in preparation for blog posts!  When I've taken a few photos I choose the ones  like best and have a session deleting.  The photos I want to keep are labelled and on my laptop. Who among my readers has the most or the fewest?  Do you label photos?