> They were rare, and special, and you'd have a few photos per YEAR to look back on. The feel of photos back then, was at least 100x stronger than now. [...] But once they became freely available that same amount of emotion is now split across many thousands of photos

I don't think I fully agree. Sure people make so many photo's that they don't have the time or the will to start looking through them all.

You can't just whip out your phone and start scrolling through thousands of photo's with friends. It would get so boring so fast.

But if you put some effort into making a nice little selection of the best photo's, that emotion is 100% still there.

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Someone 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

And there’s software to help you with that. For example, using faces, time stamps and GPS info iOS creates collections for you.

Yes, it’s crude, and you have to do the face tagging, but I think it’s a huge improvement over not having that.

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Bewelge 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

So now the value is created through curation. Before it was inherent at creation. If you never curate it might seem like it lost value in comparison.

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1shooner an hour ago | parent | next [-]

In my childhood, slide shows were very deliberately curated, in no small part because the presentation of the slides was a relatively elaborate, shared family event.

	▲	NewsaHackO an hour ago \| parent [-]
		But curation was done mainly by the creators, who were the people who were able to do the creation in the first place (professional photographers, people who could afford to buy the expensive camera, people who could afford the software for editing photos/slideshows in mass etc.). Now everyone can curate, and consumers can actually pick which curated collection is truly the best.

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Daishiman 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Curation was implicit when the cost of image creation was high and authors had to consider the photos they were taking beforehand. Now curation comes afterward.