The thought that the number of my photos can be my artistic curse came to me while preparing my portfolio for my website.
I was working on updating my portfolio gallery practically since I got an injury in my right calf (it happened on the 15th of January, 2026, and I wrote this text on the 26th of January, 2026). Yesterday, while working on the “Living in Poland” set of pictures in my portfolio gallery, I realized, not for the first time in my life, that I have a true embarrassment of riches with my photos. I know that the hardest work will be while working on the other category of my gallery, the “Minimalism” one. Why? It is because I am using this category not only for the minimalistic pictures, but also for other ones, which I do not categorize into other categories (e.g., above-mentioned “Living in Poland,” “Geometry,” “Abstraction,” etc.). That’s why I know I will have to review hundreds, or rather thousands, of pictures that I added to my website.
I know I won’t do it within one or two evenings.
Perhaps I will only start today for the “Minimalism” category, but I will finish it during the next few months. That’s how I noticed, again, that the number of my photos is my artistic curse. While writing this text, I started to check how many photos with the “Minimalism” description I added to my website. There are over 5100 pictures. Also, while writing this post, I started to rename some pictures to new categories, e.g., “Human,” “Moto,” “Garbage,” or “Hand.” I do not want to say I have a mess in my online pictures, but I simply see the curse of the number of my photos is that I can arrange them practically into countless combinations (considering I have in Lightroom ten thousand photos). I do not know who or how someday will combine my pictures into an ultimate collage. Perhaps no one, and that’s OK.
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