The Axe-Wielding Photographer

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I have an unusual view on trip and event pictures.  I think they're boring.  Wedding albums?  Boring.  Sight-seeing booklets?  Boring.  If you weren't there, it's probably boring.

So I like to chop my photo collections down to half a dozen shots or so of things that might actually engage the people I'm likely to show them to.  Which is what I'm doing right now, with all my pics of this Alaska trip.

Picture of a fieweed-filled meadow below an imposing rock face?  Not impressive on anything less than IMAX.  Axed.
3,345 pictures of mountains across water?  Ditto.  Axed.
Sunny meadow with a blurry, white blob in it?  Can't see the wolf.  Axed.
Successive pictures of the tiny fish I caught?  Redundant.  Axed.

Hey, I even wrote a poem about it.

This Photograph's a Joke
JFP

This photograph's a joke.
That one nobody got,
forgotten like smoke.

This photograph's a fake.
Only five inches of memory,
just for sharing's sake.

This photograph, untrue,
represents a secret image
though hidden in plain view.

This photograph's a lie.
It doesn't show why
that scene made me sigh.

Its purpose just goes up in smoke.
A picture is an inside joke.