I've never had that good visual memory. Certainly not to the extent you had. Occasionally I can tag a memory for a short time but there are very few things I can keep long term. I've got a mental map though of pretty much every house I've lived in after the age of about 5.

I wonder if there are mental exercises for this sort of thing? Hard as it must be to consider given that it wasn't something you had to work at before.

But I agree with you on the 'yay digital cameras' bit.