Going way, way back and then forward again to today are these two images linked by being shot in the same Garden 23 years apart. And why can I say that? Because I had the foresight to populate the metadata fields of Title and Description for this first image.
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| Iris siberica at Hemingford in 2003 |
It was taken at the end of May, the 29th as it happens, permanently etched into my D100 camera's EXIF metadata. That location was exactly the same as that I visited today with my partner of 16 years and my now 92 year old Mother. As a seasoned gardener and garden visitor, it is highly likely we had gone together on that May day, but she had no recall and mine was faint.
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| Hemingford Manor Today |
Nonetheless, I
knew I had been to Hemingford Grey in Cambridgeshire and had taken photos there of Irises and although, in winter, Hemingford Manor garden looked very different, they still had beds flanking the main paths with the names of varieties and despite the chilly winter weather there were still some small sword-like leaves, typical of Irises. Bingo! All it took was a cursory search in my Lightroom Mobile App and I soon found several quite passable Iris images, including the one above.
Conclusion
If you do one thing when you import images into whatever software you employ to catalogue and edit images, make sure you populate the Sub-location field and as many others as you reasonably can. It will pay dividends. I haven't done that consistently, so I am paying the price of long-term drudgery backfilling that data whenever I have a spare moment. 😏
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