June 8, 2015: US 67/State Street heading toward I-74 in Bettendorf. The view ahead will change as part of the I-74 bridge construction project. It’s hard to tell how many standalone I-74 shields with the state name will remain after that, but it’s safe to say there will be fewer.
You don’t want/get to see 27,000 because it was in the midst of my move to Cedar Rapids last year (and to be honest, I still haven’t unpacked much). From the middle of last year forward, these library totals don’t include nearly 500 photos taken on the farm immediately after the tornado.
In fact, from now on, the count is going to get both more and less accurate. It will be more accurate because the pictures actually related to my travels and the state of Iowa will make up a greater percentage of my additions; less accurate, because photos of other activities (such as sporting events and presidential candidates) will be excluded from the total. While I still use the same main camera, a base photo with the new camera is twice as big file-size-wise, which means a fourfold increase once it’s duplicated in the iPhoto library.