Pic collectors

[snowfan]

For those of you that save your favorite pics, how often do you look back over your collection?

I found that I don’t go back all that much.

[Redhotriannon]

I have found I always like to look at new pictures and videos to get my self aroused. I will remember favorites but like you i don't go back and really look at them. Just fond memories.

[Christo]

I used to travel a lot for work and WiFi wasn't always available (or free, or reasonably priced). So I created a folder of my favorite Charms sets to, ah, inspire me if I got a little horny. I had to keep these photos on some manner of external storage, because I didn't want to be storing porn on my work computer. Back in the day I had to use floppy disks, which, remember those? Good lord. Then I upgraded to a DVD, and then a flash drive, and then an external hard drive. I went from having maybe 20 sets to 200 to the complete sets of my 20 favorite Charms to, well, basically my entire collection. Moore's Law has been great for perverts like myself.

I do go back and admire models I especially like, and I still have a folder with my "Hall of Fame" sets. I do think I'm something of a collector of Charms--some guys collect stamps, I collect photos of hot, sexy amateur models. I had a computer crash in like 2002 that cost me a ton of photos, and I frantically tried to recreate as many of those models' sets as I could. But, alas, some appear to be lost forever.

There was one model I absolutely loved named Luscious Lauren, she was a redheaded MILF with a stupendous bod. She had her site from around 2000-2005, I'd reckon, and she was one of the models I lost in the big crash. I found a few photos in a random folder, she still has some pics on the SC Happenings page, and she did a lot of girl-girl sets with Charms who still have sites and I was able to save all of those. But, I'll never be able to restore that piece of my collection. Sigh!

[DDDVIOAUS]

AHH Cristo, I feel your pain. Many years ago, I too had a severe computer crash, and lost many a charm photo I had collected. From as far back as 2000 as well. Lost forever. I also now write for a living, and lost a lot of my works. Two years ago, I suffered a major malfunction with this computer, and took it to a tech. He got it up and working and was able to save my files. He suggest the "cloud" to save things but also offered the idea of another way. So now I have a back up computer, that isn't connected to the interest(I could if I chose so), and every so often I transfer from this one to that one. Got it discounted, and it isn't much but I got the storage upgraded to 1T, and now don't have to worry. For the past three years, I have been running my own charms photo contest, and have found that charms I weren't attracted to when I started, I am now, and vice versa. I base it on, not how a charm looks so much, as the clarity and quality of the photo, the posing, the setting, the background, how a charm smiles( odd how some seem to thing a grimace or an open mouth constitutes a smile). I also look for originality, that is always key, and it amazes me how much thought and effort some charms put into setting up a photo shoot. In 2017, I would have to say I saved over 3500 photos of over 400 models and whittled in down to 500, with Just Me, and Alaya, winning. Last year again I saved close to 5000, and over the last week of December got that down to 400. Violetta had by far the most that I saved. I don't see the charms as naked women any longer, this has allowed me to see them, as beautiful works of art( that they themselves create), as goddesses of beauty, femininity, spirituality , and grace.

[Christo]

I have an embarrassingly large amount of Charms photos collected on various hard drives. I have them stored on my main computer, on two separate hard drives, and my absolute can't-bear-to-lose Charms in a Box.com account. I was snowed in one weekend a year or so ago and spent a pleasant couple of days getting all my Charms collected in one huge folder on my laptop, and then transferring it to a hard drive. Then I plugged that hard drive into an old laptop and used that to send the whole thing up to the cloud. Took a ridiculous amount of time. I'm probably a bit touched in the head.

Alaya and Just Me? Oh my, yes please. Been a member of both and have folders bulging at the seams with photos of them both. Though I don't think I've been a member of either of them for awhile. I really like Alaya with the blonde hair, loved her as a redhead but I am a gentleman and, well, you know how we feel about blondes. And Just Me is one of the most beautiful women who's ever appeared on Southern Charms, I just think she's just stunning. And has one of the loveliest smiles you will ever see.

One of the best changes SC made was allowing Charms to keep their sites up and running even if they no longer post. There are scores of classic Charms out there who don't post anymore but are still discoverable by new fans. I'm sure they aren't getting tons of new signups, but for longtime fans (and insane collectors like myself) it's nice that they're still available.

I posted in the Top 10 Charms threat seven (SEVEN?? IS THAT POSSIBLE??) years ago, and four are still posting. Of the other six, three still have their sites available. There are many reasons why a Charm might want their photos taken down, but if they're just done with posting new sets its nice that they can keep their sites up and running for fans new and old to find.