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Digital Camera World
Digital Camera World
Hannah Rooke

It was when I bought my third hard drive that it dawned on me that we’re all taking way too many photos!

A group of fans taking a selfie with a smartphone while watching a match in a stadium.

I have just purchased my third 2TB hard drive, there are over 44,000 images on my Google Photos account, and I have 10 rolls of film waiting to be developed. Even as a content creator/photographer, I’m starting to think that we are all taking too many photos.

Every day, around 5.3 billion photos are taken, that’s 61,000 per second. There isn’t an event that isn’t photographed, whether it's the big ones, weddings, birthdays, holidays, etc., or the small, mundane happenings that no longer go uncaptured, funny graffiti on the back of a toilet door, what you ate for lunch, or a cute dog you pass on the street.

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