Today was a BIG day. My son had his braces removed!
After I picked him up from the orthodontist we made a quick stop at the store to grab some gum…the first he will have chewed in many years. We also have a dinner of Tacos – with the crunchy shells, planned for dinner this week. He is already talking about all the foods he will be able to eat again.
Of course when we got home, I had to get a photo. In preparation for this monumental event, I had taken a photo yesterday with my DSLR so as not to miss the before photo. He begrudgingly posed for another photo with his braces removed and I couldn’t wait to see the transformation. I immediately imported the photos into Historian. Just a little editing needed to brighten the photos and I was ready to share. I uploaded the two new before/after photos to my FOREVER account. Now to find the before/after photo from two years ago when he first got braces.
This could be a daunting task. I didn’t remember if I had taken the photos with my phone or camera. Fortunately, I do not keep photos on my phone…I regularly delete the duds, upload the good ones to my FOREVER account, then delete them all. So I only had two places I could look: my FOREVER account, or Historian on my laptop. I remember he had braces when he went on his grade 7 trip to Quebec, but how long before that did he have them? I couldn’t remember. Would I have to scroll through thousands of photos in my Historian or FOREVER library? I could narrow it down to photos I tagged with his name (using the facial recognition in Historian or the tags in my FOREVER library, but that would still be hundreds of photos.
Fortunately, my recent photo organizing workflow, has me upload all my ‘good’ photos to FOREVER (though it hasn’t always been that way) so that’s where I started. It turned out that I found the photos in seconds. Thankfully I had written a small blurb in the description of the photo when I had uploaded them. All I had to do was a quick search for the word “braces” from my FOREVER library and the photos popped up almost instantly. I have over 17,000 files in FOREVER and 4 photos popped up with my specific search.
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