No, not CES, or COMDEX or any of the other big electronics trade shows, but PMA - The Photo Marketing Association, it's the big trade show for all things photo related and where new products tend to get announced.  Being interested in photography I look to this show to see what's new products will be coming out this year.  For example, I see that Canon will have a new wide format ink jet in April that uses eight colours - the i9900.  I tend to favour Canon's products over other manufactures as I have good experience and a certain other well know printer manufacturer's products have never lasted more than 366 days for me.  This printer interests me because I want to be able to make prints larger than 8x10 that I can do with my current printer (a Canon i850).  I shoot with a Canon 10D and am slowly building up a large collection of photos that I consider print worthy - I don't think I've got enough wall space to print and hang all the ones I want to at home - some will probably end up in my office; at least that way I can shuffle what's at with what's at the office to have a bit of variety.

Also from the show I've seen info on some new compact digital cameras that I've been tempted with.  I had a first generation Canon Digital Elph (IXUS back in the UK) that I recently sold because I wasn't using it much.  Part of the reason it wasn't getting much use was the picture quality wasn't as good as it should have been and the resolution wasn't enough (only 2MP) now the same size camera can have a 5MP sensor with a 3X optical zoom.  That's something I'd be more likely to carry around with me.  As great a camera as the 10D is, it's a bit a large to carry around all the time.

All of my photos are stored on my Media Center system, which I often use to play a slideshow of pictures when I'm doing something else, it's like having a huge digital picture frame :)

It's amazing how much digital photography is taking off and I wonder where it's going to end.  How many megapixels are enough?  With five and six megapixel cameras entering the mainstream this year, next year is bound to increase that even more, but there must be a point where the average consumer doesn't need any more.  Does the average consumer need more than four megapixels?  How many consumers actually print their photos above 8x10 or even 4x6?

Managing this huge collection of photos that we all are starting to acquire is going to be hard.  I use a hierarchy of folders and well named files to manage my collection - using nothing more advanced than the wizard built in to XP that fires when I plug my camera in.  For example, the photos I took recently in Las Vegas are stored in a folder called "Las Vegas\200402" and each file is named "Las Vegas 200402 x.jpg" where x is a three digit number.  For larger folders such as my Seattle folder I have a subfolder for each set of photos with the date and or event, for example "20040102 - Snow in the new year" so I can see at a glance what photos are in there and when I took them - the date first helps me easily sort them.  That's great if I know when I took a certain photo, but if I don't then finding it becomes much harder.  I could easily have a thousand photos with "Seattle" in the filename, so finding that one photo I really like of Pike Place Market is a non trivial task.  For this I've been using the Picture Library component of "Microsoft Digital Image 9 Suite".  It presents a thumbnail view of my photos a bit like explorer can in XP, but I can use my mouse wheel to dynamically change the size of the thumbnails, plus it can show all the photos in a folder and all subfolders in one view sorted by date, filename and probably other ways I don't know about.  This way I can start with small thumbnails of lots of images and find ones that look similar to the photo I'm looking for, and zoom in on them to narrow down my search to the one photo I'm looking for.  Apple demo'd similar functionality in their new release of iPhoto and I suspect other companies do the same.  Eventually even this method of finding photos is going to become to hard as the quantity of photos increases, I don't know what will do when having tens of thousands of stored photos becomes the norm.