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Went for an afternoon coffee break photo-walk, now I'm thinking of the pictures I didn't take that would frame the story. [emoji849][emoji35]
I wish I'd taken more thirty or forty years ago when I look back through my old negs and prints.
On a simmilar note to lost relatives.. i see people post really poor..and i mean really poor pics of there pets after they die.. pets they treat as part of the family and not one decent picture....
I just posted a pic of our recently deceased Cat, it wasn't the most amazing image but it showed her placid nature - pics of pets do not have to be technically sound either - either way I have hundreds of her, just happened to choose that one. An image of a deceased pet doesn't have to be a work of art to you, it's about what it means to the owners
Yes, any old picture brings back memories.
People are something else, and I wish I had more photos of my father. That's a little different from what I was originally thinking though.
I wish I had understood the workings of my camera when I was younger to take more thoughtful pictures, it’s only now I’m older have I spent the time to learn how to use my camera do I enjoy taking pics.
thanks, I guess my regret is all those places I've been and I didn't capture a "moment".It's never to late to start learning, and great that you've done so now.
But in the film days of the 70s, 80s or 90s, if you used 1 roll/day you were a "power-user" already ... ---
I'd probably manage a roll a week in the 80s.
Back in the seventies and eighties, most rolls of film had a Christmas tree in the first and last few frames, and a beach in the middle twenty-five or so...
Often been out with the family and wish I had spent more time taking photographs, but it is family time and not right for me to spend ages trying to take the photo I want.
Indeed.Hi, when looking at old travel pics from 20 or even 30 years ago, I find that pics that were looked upon as mere everyday snapshots at the time, become more interesting over the years. Many reasons for this, I suppose. Our environment changes, and so do our personalities ...
Indeed.
I'm in the middle of scanning my negatives from the late 1970s and early 1980s. My intention was to scan the 'best pictures', but there are so many more which show places and people no longer around or drastically changed which are far more interesting for what they depict rather than how they depict it.
That's one reason I think it's important to photograph the mundane all the time. And to make the pictures in a form which will survive rather than die with the smartphone.