do you remember every photograph you have taken ?

[Tin Can]

I find my memory of all things has improved greatly since my heart attack and the insertion of an OM stent.

Seems the brain needs blood flow and it's now 14 months. Rebuilding synapses takes time. I haven't felt this good or thought as well in a decade. Vertigo is gone.

Still don't take good notes.

So little time...

[Brian Sims]

... I remember clearly 100% of those I print...

I'm the same as David. I can remember all that I printed.

[Andrew O'Neill]

I voted yes, but ask me again in 20 years!

[Kirk Gittings]

Pretty much, not like sitting down and listing them but when I run across a reproduction or unearth a neg I haven't see in a couple of decades? Yes.

[Daniel Stone]

I answered "no", but I'm 27, not 49 .

Personally, I don't keep anything I don't like when I first look at it when back from the lab. If I don't like it upon first looking at it, I mark it with an "X", then file it away, and look at it 6 months later. 2 marks gets it placed quickly into the trash bin.

I've realized that I'd rather have 1-2 "winners" per year that I'm 100% confident in than 20 "99%ers" that when I look at, I'm still not fully confident in what I see.

Just my method, and it works for me. Helps keep the clutter down too

[jp]

I can tell you the time of year and usually location, but not always. The feeling/mood in the photo goes with a location (even if it's ten different beaches or woods that look the same to most people) and memory. Rarely can I tell you the year a photo was taken. Sorta of like my birthdays are starting to run together, the date of capture is doing the same thing. I do label my negative pages, and using flickr or my scans are a good (but incomplete) catalog to help find something when I'm forgetting the year.

With some digital photos, I've seen them in use and thought, "damn that looks good, I like that style", and the other person was like, "it's your photo". when I've taken photos for less creative purposes. I've also got photos of my daughters growing up and wouldn't know which daughter is in the photo unless I looked at the date; they looked quite similar at age 1-3 in some circumstances.

I've also had the ubiquitous roll of film that's been lost and found and it's a pleasurable surprise to see what was on it. If I'd remembered well enough taking it, I'd know what was on it before developing.

[John Kasaian]

I remember the days when I'm out photographing, but usually not every single exposure. Looking through a stack of negatives or prints I can recollect each one pretty good.
I do remember my mistakes however---I can't seem to forget 'em!

[Vaughn]

I polled "Maybe". I have been photographing the same stretch of creek for 30+ years. Sometimes I can remember taking a photo at a particular place, but it is getting harder to remember which camera I might have used...4x5? 5x7? 8x10? And what process I might have used to print it (if I did). What is also fun is seeing a place and have that bring memories of printing an image of that place.

[Drew Wiley]

I don't remember pictures I took last week. I don't take notes either. But if I actually look at a neg or print even forty years old, I pretty much remember the
whole nine yards about where and exactly how.

[John Jarosz]

But if I actually look at a neg or print even forty years old, I pretty much remember the
whole nine yards about where and exactly how.

Pretty much true for me as well. I am amazed how an image can trigger one's memory over the years gone by.