It’s hard to imagine that a little over a year ago I got my Canon 20D digital SLR camera. I updated my spreadsheet where I track the total files downloaded from the camera and guess what… since May 2nd of last year I have taken 42,597 photos with it! I know that sounds a little… okay a lot obsessive especially when you divide that number by the total days and it comes out to 112 images per day.

Now in my defense I will say that it is rather easy to rack up a lot of photos per day when shooting sports in burst mode. What would be depressing would be to come up with the number of “keepers” that I got out of te 42,000+ photos I took. Fortunately, it would be a rather difficult exercise to determine that because if I had I am sure it would be quite low. Read the rest of this entry »