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OP back again. It is a quiet night, yesterday the first snow fell and I have time again to think about myself. Some photographers destroyed their own work because they were unsatisfied with it (e.g. there is a video on Youtube showing how the Dutch photographer Erwin Olaf tears one of his prints into pieces). I also did this when I once burnt all my self-developed black-and-white negatives from the past 20 years. With digital, I do not have to destroy or delete, but I can simply move the files to external hard drives where I never access them again and nobody else will be able to because the drive is encrypted. This is less painful than deleting. I would have thought that some other guy here feels as I do and I am surprised that this does not seem to be the case. It is something different than taking 1000 street photos and showing only 1% of it because in street photography it is normal that the yield is so small. I however do not even share the good ones. I was pleased to read from an autistic person that my assumption could actually be correct; this gives me more than a medical diagnosis. Accordingly, reading from others here who treat their pictures similarly than I do, would give me more than a photog confirming that my photos are good. I know that they are good, and therefore there is no need to fish for compliments. It would not be the same to use a film camera (of which I even have three left) and not to insert a film because this would only be the simulation of taking a photograph. Instead, I really do photograph and therefore I can be happy about a real existing result.
