During this last week I’ve been working through photos from 2025. Far too big a job to do in one sitting, I’ve been taking it month-by-month, and am currently sat at the start of September. There are fewer than 2,000 photos to go, though not all of these are from the last few months of last year, because there are still a few hundred in that “unsorted” jumble that I’m still not completely sure of how to integrate into the chronological system.

The total number of files eliminated through this process continues to rise. Last week I said it was roughly 10%, and this week it’s up to 15%. But this is not surprising, because as I’ve already mentioned, I took a huge number of photos on my phone in 2025 and then just left them on my computer without doing any sort of curation. There’s been a lot of blurry shit to delete.

My Pixelfed profile is now at 133 posts and 51 followers. On average, I’m uploading two photos per day, and I’m making use of old photos to try and sustain that average. I have entertained the notion of trying to increase that average so that I hit 1000 posts by the end of the year, but this is such an arbitrary goal and I’m not sure what purpose it would serve.

I’ve also been turning my mind to what my next project could be, once the archives are whipped into shape. I do have a bunch of pre-digital photos, so it might be interesting to go through and scan a few of them. I think it would also be exciting if I could make use of further processing to give them a new lease of life. If you have any other suggestions, please leave a comment below!