Camera Phone Shots as a Snapshot of Life

Wednesday, July 27, 2005, at 11:23AM

By Eric Richardson

Every time I go check out the Flickr Date Taken Calendar I think all over again about how cool it is. That calendar shows a little snapshot of my life, in picture form. Sure, I'm not in any (or almost any) of the pictures, but each of those shots represents where I was in that point in time. With traditional photos it's easy for dates to become fuzzy, but with digital images and EXIF data you always know exactly when things happened. That's really cool.

Eric Richardson lives in Atlanta, Georgia, where he works on payments infrastructure for Cash App.

Past lives involved streaming audio for Southern California Public Radio, running a hyperlocal news site for Downtown Los Angeles, working on custom mapping code, and writing Perl at the Jet Propulsion Labratory.

Previously on this date...

2005
Field Trip
So I had to take a field trip today for my Geology class. I wasn't excited about it, since it meant a good long while in a bus. We left USC at 8am...
2002
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2001
more bar graphs
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2000
richardsons on the web
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