I now have 17,525 photos on Flickr, but by the time you read this that number will likely have changed. That’s because I’ve gotten serious about catching up with my photo backlog lately.

I was about a year and a half behind for quite some while, but I’ve knuckled down and I’m making progress, at the rate of about one month per week.

On this pace, I expect to catch up to the present by September of this year.

As I continue this effort, I continuously ask myself why. That is, why do I bother?...