[brudgers]

Why maintain every image you create? If the photo doesn't make the cut, why categorize and file and try to organize it, instead of deleting it or tossing it in a virtual shoebox?

To a first approximation, nobody really cares about the contents of any photograph. In the age of digital photography, cellphones and online communications, photographs are a commodity.

People don't really care about most of the photographs they take because they take so many. This is nothing new. In the age of film, professional photographers would blow through rolls of film just to get one good image. There's a reason movie making inspired the term "wound up on the cutting room floor".

Photography as an art requires making aesthetic judgements. Valuing some things and discarding others. Only a few pictures are worth saving.

Same holds true for email.