LW1358 - Working Our Lightroom Catalog

LensWork Online member Kevin writes, "You've frequently used the phrase 'working your Lightroom catalog.' What do you mean by that? How do you 'work' your catalog?" Essentially, I think that working our Lightroom catalog is probing our unconscious creative self for the messages contained in our photographs, listening for clues that are right in front of us but that may not yet be fully comprehended. Look for similarities, patterns, trends, differences. I think of images as data points. Data points can be reviewed looking for clusters that combine to create a whole that is greater than the sum of the data point. I look at groups of images by keywords, meta by month, collections or the Quick Collection, by colored folders. Sometimes an idea leads me to images, sometimes a group of images or a single image leads to an idea