Photo flurry

And now, all of a sudden it seems, my phone is full of photos, there's no more memory. I am archiving and deleting. And trying to empty the bin!

Emptying the bin has to be done a few items at a time, otherwise the phone gets stuck and needs to be turned off to have a little rest and consider the error of its willful ways. Tsk, tsk. 

I'm feeling a bit willful myself - hence the fixation on sorting out albums etc - and am starting to wonder why I'm not taking the easy way out and "obeying" the instructions on the phone. Once the photos are backed up in The Cloud, they can be archived and "you'll still be able to view them at any time". But given the problems with emptying the bin, I just don't trust The System....

Meanwhile there is no spare memory on the phone, and my efforts at archiving (10% have been archived this morning) seem to have had no effect. It's "interesting" to be unable to take photographs, especially of the pots in progress. Which is why there hasn't been progress on pots this week! I've been doing other things instead....

Tour of Emery Walker House in Hammersmith (website has a virtual tour; no photos allowed in the house; I sketched while listening) - downriver is Hammersmith Bridge, where his partner in Doves Press famously disposed of the type and molds for the Jensen typeface, what a story! Dorothy Walker lived in the house till her death in the 60s, and her companion till 1999, so it has original wallpaper and many other "William Morris" furnishings, as well as a lot of ceramics the family picked up on their travels, especially to Morocco. 

Talk at Geological Society -

Visit to Intaglio Printmaker for a look at supplies, brushes, etc for Japanese woodblock printing -

 Looking at the big, bright, haloed harvest moon -

... and the clear morning sky -

 A talk on Paula Rego's drawings (at Marlborough Gallery till 27 Oct)

Contemporary prints at Sotheby's (getting the room ready for the auction next day) -

 ... and some by Rembrandt, also Picasso ceramics

To Kew Gardens ... lovely combinations of plants in the renovated Temperate House -

Now, domestic chores and trying to make some room for future photos on the phone, and organise them so things can be found. 

Possibly a hopeless task, but worth a try. The plan (ah yes, there is always a plan!) is to do it a month at a time, starting a year ago. And here are the projected steps, lest I forget...

First, delete the sloppy stuff - blurs and duplicates. Note to self: be ruthless! or at least try to be ruthless. 

Second, do "big chunks" - multiple photos from exhibitions, for example. Walks. Courses / workshops. Those go into albums and then those pix are archived immediately. After that, go into the folder and add text (use the Tt icon) - what the show was, where the walk was, etc.

It may be possible, with Edit Album in the menu, to move pix around ("Select photos and drag to reorder") so that the most relevant/interesting/best/favourite are at the start, but that refinement will have to wait till the rough stuff is done.

It takes a long time to go through the photos (my phone holds about 19,000), but there are lovely surprises, and it's a pleasure to look back to this time last year ....

September 2017
After digging out all the deep roots and discussing the
placement of paving stones, it was such a pleasure to get
plants into the ground

September 2018
Some of last year''s plants survived and some even
self-seeded; it's a work in progress...

Addendum

A quick search found on "How do I delete photos from my phone but not Google Photos?" found this -

Delete selected device copy photos from the device in the photos menu

1. Open the Google Photos app on your mobile device .

1. Select one or more photos that are on the device.

1. At the top right, tap on the "3 dots" menu icon.

1. Select Delete Device Copy.

This may be the halfway-house solution that I subconsciously yearned for. But first I want to think carefully about why photos need to stay on the phone - what further use would they get - and thus, what subjects or situations could do with deleting. All those photos of gardens and plants, are they of interest to anyone but me ... and I have them on the computer ....