Yes, it is a daunting task! There are many, many thousands of images to go through. I don’t necessarily carefully inspect each one, but I do scan of every folder containing the year’s photos and often spot some that are interesting enough to warrant spending some extra time on them.

At the same time, I do another “annual review” of all of the shots that I think are pretty decent – including all of those posted at my blog. I create a task for myself of trying to determine which ones I feel are my “best of” the current year in a variety of categories. This typically leads to a post or series of posts pointing back to these images and perhaps describing them a bit.

Fortunately for me, my job provides me with a few weeks off during the holiday period. On top of that, my wife’s job usually makes her more busy at this time of the year.