Do you remember?

Do you remember when pictures were actual pictures?  When they weren't digital?  It was an easier time then.  You only took twelve to thirty-six at a time and they had to be "good" or it was a waste of film.  Now you can shoot willy-nilly and take as many pictures of your cat or your baby as you want to.  What does that give you?  A thousand OK pictures of your cat and ten good ones.  Can you find those good ones after you've uploaded them onto your computer?  Not easily.  Can't you just delete the bad ones while they are still on your camera?  Sure, if you want to go through each of the thousand pictures and press "delete" and "confirm" for each bad one.  Besides, why delete them?  Aren't they perfectly good pictures?  It's a crisis.  

Don't get me wrong, I really like digital pictures.  You can edit them to make them look better and, I'll admit, taking a thousand pictures will give you a better chance of getting a good one.  I'm just disgruntled because I've been reading "Everything is Miscellaneous" by David Weinberger.  His solution to too much information is more information.  It's pretty genius.  If you want to organize the thousands of photos in your album, you have to add metadata (information about information) to them.  Add descriptive terms to your photos so you can search them easier.  That way, if I'm looking for that picture of the Chicago skyline that I took when my boyfriend and I went there last April I can type in "Chicago" or "Chicago" and "April 2008" and there it is.  Easy.  At least, it seems easy until I realize I have to add two to five words to all of my thousand pictures.  

I want my film camera back.