Technology is helpful if you use it.

Would you agree? Is that true for you?


We recently spent two days in South Georgia reviewing a market and taking photographs of land sales all over a county. In the interest of getting the 'best' pictures, we used a nice digital camera.


Arriving back at the office in Chattanooga, we began the task of matching the photos to the sale information. I opened iPhoto and got to work, but alas, there was no map showing the picture's location. I mentally reviewed my potential errors and found to my surprise, I had been using my iPhone or iPad to take photos at the end of the previous project for clean up because it was easier (the camera you have is the one you use) and those devices (iPhone/iPad) both take great pictures. They also have 'geolocational' feature which means they 'tag' every photograph with its location within about 10 meters.
Alas, the "better" photos were NOT better because they were missing what for me has become a key ingredient in my picture taking, geolocational tagging.


Guess I will be giving my 'camera' to my daughter Katherine. For me from now on, I plan to exclusively use my iPhone and iPad for work photographs.


(and plan for my next trip to Italy so I'll have a map on iPhoto that looks like this one . . .)