As the previous blog post suggests, I started birding. I started this mostly to fight depression and anxiety and the negative thoughts and feelings that I was having. But when I post my images, I wanted the images to have tags. So I got off on various tangents. One was to write a script to tag the images. I didn't know how I wanted the process to work. I didn't know how I wanted Lightroom, SmugMug, and this blog to work. Along the way, I got off on another tagent (not finished) of going through all of my images since 2001 and finding the birds and properly identifying them. Then I wanted to add them to my "Life List" on ebird. While doing this, I got off on another tangent (also not completed) of going through all my images from a 2007 trip to Antarctica that I took. And, you guessed it, this got me off on yet another third tagent to find and enter reasonably accurate GPS coordinates for all of the roughly 4000 images.
There was a ship's GPS log passed around at one point but I don't have it; I never did. And so far everyone I've contacted doesn't have it either. But I found a really accurate blog post and I have used it to get accurate GPS locations through the trip. Side note: I think I have gone through life only half aware of reality. This blog post has way more detail than I ever knew about and he was just an equal participant like me.
So, the Antarctice images have been GPS tagged and reverse tagged (going from GPS to country, state, city, etc). And I have found about 25 differnt birds that I saw and photographed during the trip. I will make a blog post about these in a day or two. For now, here are the birds I found in December of 2025 tagged like I wanted them. Please share your thoughts on the tagging, life, and Pluto (the dog).
