Photography retrospectives

January 6, 2025September 29, 2026

366 days / 1775 days

This entry is part 1 of 3 in the series Photography retrospectives

I started uploading photos taken in 2020 to Flickr on February 27, 2020, including these:

Later in 2020 it became A Thing to count every day as part of March 2020 (ie, today is the 1773rd of March, 2020), In that spirit, today is the 1775th, and also the last, day of 2020 in terms of my photo processing.

Fittingly, today’s final upload features these “2020 SUCKS” cupcakes my kids decorated on December 31:

2020 retrospective

Fires

More (and, December 2019)

Rain

By the time I was uploading my mediocre videos of heavy rain from January and February of 2020 (this one was uploaded in January 2024), it was becoming a little hard to remember why I was so excited about it.

Video

365 days / 1684 days

This entry is part 2 of 3 in the series Photography retrospectives

I started uploading photos taken in 2021 to Flickr on January 13, 2021, including these:

Today is the 1684th day of 2021’s photo processing, the last publicly accessible upload I made from 2021 was:

I might not seem to be accelerating that much (2020’s photos took 1775 days) but I have mostly complete uploads from 2024 and entirely complete for 2025, so I only have 2022, 2023, and part of 2024 to catch up.

The literally thousands of photos I took in a two week period in Europe in 2022 will be a journey though.

2021 retrospective

Culburra

This photo is something of a favourite of the algorithms that display my photo history to me, and I’ve stared at it so much in the last four and half years that I honestly have no idea now whether or not I like it:

More: Penguins Head, Tilbury Cove, Warrain Beach, more Warrain Beach. (Just this sequence, about a week in real time, took me two months to upload.)

Newcastle

More: Hang gliders, clifftop views

Auburn Botanic Gardens

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Last light off Sydney City, from Milk Beach

More: storms, last light

Golden last afternoon

September 29, 2026September 29, 2026

365 days / 628 days

This entry is part 3 of 3 in the series Photography retrospectives

I started uploading photos taken in 2025 to Flickr on January 9, 2025, with this:

Today is the 628th day of 2025’s photo processing, the last publicly accessible upload I made from 2025 was:

I am still working on 2022, 2023, and 2024…

2025 retrospective

Japan

I wasn’t super happy, overall, with the photographs I took in Japan, but let it not be said that I didn’t make my family stand around in the cold for hours on my son’s 15th birthday to see a fraction of Mt Fuji: