April 2022
365 days / 1684 days
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
COVID ephemera
Milk Beach
Lockdown sunsets
First dawn (after travel limits lifted)
Christmas storms
More: storms, last light
Golden last afternoon
Autumn leaves, 2025
Autumn leaves and goose, Auburn Botanic Gardens
Autumn in Orange 2025
366 days / 1775 days
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.
March/April COVID-19 lockdown
Autumn, Japanese maple edition
Autumn, there are in fact other varieties of tree edition
Autumn, Auburn Botanic Gardens edition
Autumn, morning walk after rain edition
Winter rains
Blue Mountains getaway
Bay Run at night
Spring rains
Boxing Day storm
Raindrops
Morning walk in autumn
Auburn Botanic Gardens
May 2020
This album comes via a quick detour to update Wikipedia so that I understood how school reopenings worked in New South Wales in 2020, specifically:
From 11 May [2020], students returned to school one day a week with a plan for a phased return over several weeks. From 25 May, the phased return was replaced with full-time schooling.
Wikipedia: COVID-19 pandemic in New South Wales (2020)
I had decided in advance that when school went back — it was remote for seven weeks, and two weeks of Easter holidays — that my spouse and I would then immediately take a week off work. Thus, the week of 25 May, we went somewhere each day in Sydney to explore, of which the most photogenic was Auburn Botanic Gardens in late autumn colours.
