On taking the wrong pictures

[ladyofastolat]

I must have at least 100 pictures of the Victorian cemetery next to my old workplace. They're all neatly organised in a folder called "cemetery," and a few years ago, I made monthly LJ posts about the flora and fauna of the place

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[leesa_perrie]

That is indeed a good moral! Hubby has wished many a time that he thought to photograph a place before it was altered, and that's when he knew it was going to alter, some places are altered sneakily when you're not looking!!

So, yes, photograph everything!

[ladyofastolat]

Of course, as soon as I noticed how much the place had changed, I should have taken a picture there and then - or, since I didn't have my camera of me, have returned with a camera the moment I finished making this post. But I didn't, and chances are, I'll forget all about it, and when I return there in 6 months time and find it's changed yet again, I will STILL have no photos of it. I will have an LJ post lamenting my failure to take pictures, but I will have no photos.

Moral: whenever you're tempted to write LJ posts lamenting your lack of photos, don't. Use that time to TAKE photos instead.

[leesa_perrie]

Ah yes, probably true!! Though I enjoyed your post lamenting your lack of photos, so maybe find time to do both?! :)

[bunn]

Oh gawd, I so resemble this post. I try to photograph everything, and so why have I just spent the last hour trying to find a single photo of the Tamar Valley in summer? Apparently ALL my Tamar Valley photos are taken in winter, spring and autumn. Every. Single. One. Damnit.

[ladyofastolat]

It's a shame burst mode (no, NOT "bust mode," as I initially wrote) doesn't result in a series of pictures of the same view, each one a month apart, rather than a series of photos separated by fractions of a second. Somebody should sort this!