I've got a storage problem. I've been taking photos a long time. I bought my first camera in college. I used film. So I had negatives and prints. A shoebox would work for small prints and negatives. I have some old yellow Kodak photo paper boxes that hold a lot of 8x10 photos.

When I began to shoot slides, I put them in clear plastic pages in 3 ring binders. I have dozens of binders, with thousands of slides. I got my first digital camera in 2003 and had a new problem: where and how to store digital images. And the problem has compounded itself as the size of the image has grown. I've also been advised to keep multiple copies of the digital images. I have more than 60,000 digital images, and now that I'm retired the number increases at more than 1,000 per month. Part of this is fun.

But in some ways, it feels like the process of storage and backup will swallow one up. But it's weird in that all of the photos I've taken for the last ten years will fit on a portable hard drive smaller than a book, much smaller than a shoebox. But that many slides fills nearly 10 feet of shelf space, and that many prints and negatives fills box after box after box. And despite what I read this week, I recall nearly every photo, if not all.

That's a lot of memories.