Write a book: tick

Yesterday I finished the book I have been slowly writing for the last year or so and now I just have to wait a couple of weeks until the (very) few printed copies that I have ordered are delivered. This is a book strictly for my family, however I want to share a couple of insights.

First off, memories, like love, die if you don´t take care of them. Nothing lasts forever.

Did everything really take place as we remember it? What makes it into such a book? And for the same token, what does not make it into such a book?

Which are the landmarks of our existence? Extraordinary events? Routine ones which are quickly forgotten although they make up for the bulk of our time? Or maybe just the people who surround us?

Well, I don´t have the answers. On the other hand, I do now have a book with 350 pages full of things that came to my mind which I thought were worth writing down for my children. And the feeling I could have written more and with more details. So maybe all I got round to do is writing the first part of a bigger book, maybe one to be completed in fifteen or twenty years if I am still around.

And Happy New Year!

Photos in 2022

Deciding which photos are "best" is always a difficult task. On the other hand, checking which ones got more likes in IG is dead easy. I post a mix of new and old photos, and from the ones taken in 2022, these are the photos with most likes (around 15 likes each, give or take).

The trick is that the amount of likes is more or less proportional to the number of people which your photos are shown to, which in turn depends on the hashtags you use. If, like me, you don´t use hashtags often, very few people will see your photos. For B&W photos I have a set of three hashtags which I use regularly, #streetphotography, #blackandwhite and #blackandwhitephotography, and not surprisingly these are the photos which get most likes. More hashtags, more likes, but also more time required each day and since I only spent a couple of minutes each morning to post a photo, I just cannot be bothered with the whole game.