{"id":17041,"date":"2018-03-05T11:02:33","date_gmt":"2018-03-05T19:02:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/?p=17041"},"modified":"2018-03-05T11:55:51","modified_gmt":"2018-03-05T19:55:51","slug":"photos-and-albums","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2018\/03\/05\/photos-and-albums\/","title":{"rendered":"Photos and albums"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>Last night, I was on my way to bed at a somewhat-reasonable-for-me hour when I noticed that the <a href=\"https:\/\/photos.google.com\/\">Google Photos<\/a> app had generated a \u201cbest of 2017\u201d album and was offering to turn it into a printed photo book for me.<\/p>\r\n<p>Intrigued, I took a look and found that it had also generated several other smaller albums for me, none of which I thought did a very good job of matching the criteria it had chosen. (\u201cBest of Fall 2017\u201d and such.) But when I looked at the best-of-the-whole-year collection, I thought it had done a pretty good job of collecting about 50 good photos of people and places I wanted to remember from 2017.<\/p>\r\n<p>It did include a few that I didn\u2019t like, though, and left out a few that I remembered and wanted to include, so I started looking through all of my photos from 2017 to see which ones I would include in a best-of-2017 collection. By the time I finished with that, I had 100 photos in the list (the maximum that Google Photos allows in an album), but it was nearly an hour past the latest time I usually go to bed.<\/p>\r\n<p>Woke up this morning after only about five hours\u2019 sleep (not enough for me), but wasn\u2019t sleepy, so I did some culling from that collection. Ended up with a set of about 80 that I\u2019m pretty happy with, both as photos and as a sort of overview of my year. Except:<\/p>\r\n<ul>\r\n  <li>Apparently I usually don\u2019t take photos of people except when I\u2019m traveling. So I don\u2019t have any photos from 2017 of local people\u2014not even Kam. :( [Edited later to add: I guess I do take photos of local people at parties and other group events. And it turns out I have one of Kam in a group photo from when we went to see <cite>Hamilton<\/cite>. But I don\u2019t have many just ordinary day-to-day photos of local people.]<\/li>\r\n  <li>I also mostly only have photos of people I actually saw, so there are lots of far-flung friends who I interacted with at least occasionally by phone or online, but who I don\u2019t have photos of.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<p>So \u2026 it\u2019s a good overview of 2017, except in the ways in which it\u2019s not. But I think I\u2019ll order the printed album anyway, to see how I like it.<\/p>\r\n<p>Side note: While I was poking around in Google Photos, I got curious about its finding-things-without-needing-manual-labeling feature, and I did a search for [birds]. On the one hand, it found not only photos of real egrets and mallards and seagulls and chickens and such, but also photos of my stuffed-animal birds: penguin, owl, ostrich, raven, etc. On the other hand, it also misidentified several other photos as birds: a dog; a child in a winter coat with a fake-fur-trimmed hood; and one of my stuffed-animal llamas. (A followup search for [llamas] brought up another stuffed-animal llama, several alpacas, some camels, a dog,\r\nand a cassowary.)<\/p>\r\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photos","category-software"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17041"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17041\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17045,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17041\/revisions\/17045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}