NovaBird Camera Thrives, and Other Camera Stuff...
For those of you new to this blog, we very frequently use the remote, motion-triggered NovaBird camera. And, after roughly 10,000 photos, the camera seemed to give up the ghost. But after some tinkering, hope springs eternal, and the rig managed to fire off 15 very respectable shots today out of a total of 483... Not bad at all - normal in fact. Consider the one of the Downy Woodpecker below...
Click here to see the full-size version of the above image.
But that begs another issue - that of picture storage organization. (If you own a digital camera, you're probably facing the same problem.) What are we going to do with hundreds if not thousands (or even tens of thousands) of images? In the past, we outlined a simple folder structure/file-naming taxonomy both locally, and on our eBirdseed.com photo library... But the "bird name_photo type_camera settings_date.jpg" format simply isn't cutting the mustard. If for no other reason, we're using different cameras with different capabilities and different applications... What to do? (You professional photographers out there please input via the "Comment" button... (I'm "winging it" on this one...)) Ok... How about if we use the old newspaper credo of "who, what, when, where, why, and how"? That is...
- Who took the photo
- Of what bird
- And when was the picture taken
- Along with where the snapshot was captured
- Finally, we need to know why or how the image was recorded (that is, what camera was used)
So, using that system, a typical file name might be: CCA_robin in oak tree_7 11 08_bells neck resev_harwich_eos_better_ver 1.jpg. (This all feels terribly awkward, but I can't find a better system... After all... The computer I'm working on has 3,426 pics stored in 160 folders, and this is just one of three computers in our current network.)
'Til we can come up with a better system of organizing photographs... Discombobulated by the feeders,
CapeCodAlan
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