These photos will be familiar too a few of you, Wendy! (see bottom) I wanted to take almost the same photo, but obviously at a different time of the year. Unfortunately, there was so much debris caught up along the edge that I couldn’t get to the exact location where I took it before and I wasn’t going to get my feet wet this time.
The original photo was taken in February and was reasonably easy to get too, yesterday I was reminded of my time in the Belize jungle; even Poppy had trouble getting there. As I was hacking my way through and rescuing Poppy from beneath an old fallen tree, the sky was a beautiful deep blue with nice fluffy white clouds and my heart was racing with anticipation at the thought of getting the shot I wanted.
Sods law would have it, that as soon I set up a dirty great big black cloud would cover the sun. Half an hour I had to wait before I had the light I wanted. In that time I must have changed the composition of the photo about a hundred times. If I could have taken the photo straight off it would probably have been perfect; “maybe I should try it at a lower perspective” or “maybe slightly to the right or at a wider angle”. This happens to me all the time when I have to wait and probably cocks the shot up as a result.
But the thing is, even at times when things have been right and I can take the shot, I feel I have to take a hundred more photos at different angles and dangles to get the photo I want. Which, when I upload them on too the computer, 9 times out of 10 the best photo was the first shot I took. The result: I now have a 3 month old 250gb hard drive that is 3/4’s full. I have also discovered that I have a phobia; Deletesphotobia – the fear of deleting my photos from my computer.
I don’t know why I have this problem, maybe some Shrink will trace it back to my Mother, but I find I get to the point of the process where Windows asks “Do you really want to delete this file” only to find that my fore finger solidifies over the left mouse button. It doesn’t make much sense, I mean, I can always go back and take the photo again and as I said before, the first photo was the one I will use, so why? WHY? WHY?don’t I just delete them!
I guess I feel I’m deleting a memory or that there may be hope for the photo; a couple of filters in Photoshop, cut it there or just give it a water colour effect and say that was my intention when I took the photo. Maybe, I doubt my judgement of what is a good photo, that the world wide audience would really like the shot I am about to send too the pixel graveyard called the Recycle Bin. Whatever the reason, I need to do something quick, before I splash-out another 100 Euros on a new hard drive.
Anyway, as usual I thought I could do this shot better, I’ll go back with my wellies on and go further out in the river; I’ll do it tomorrow (today, Sunday). It came therefore, as I bit of a shock this morning to find the whole world was white; it had snowed. Here’s the proof:
click on image for full size
I have never known snow this early in the year. OK! we’re 200 MTS above sea level, but it’s still October, there’s still apples on the trees for gods sake! Yesterday I was by the river in a t’ shirt today I’m walking the dog in my ski jacket; crazy. The long and the tall of it though is: I can’t retake this photo again, well not today, and it’s not because of the light, it’s because I’m going to sit by the fire with a hot cuppa coco and watch the MOTOGP. Have a nice Sunday, I will!
The original: The Calm Before…. as hanging somewhere in Wendy’s (wenspics) house
This is the Colour Version of the above B&W Click on image for full size
The Calm before…. Revisited
These photos will be familiar too a few of you, Wendy! (see bottom) I wanted to take almost the same photo, but obviously at a different time of the year. Unfortunately, there was so much debris caught up along the edge that I couldn’t get to the exact location where I took it before and I wasn’t going to get my feet wet this time.
The original photo was taken in February and was reasonably easy to get too, yesterday I was reminded of my time in the Belize jungle; even Poppy had trouble getting there. As I was hacking my way through and rescuing Poppy from beneath an old fallen tree, the sky was a beautiful deep blue with nice fluffy white clouds and my heart was racing with anticipation at the thought of getting the shot I wanted.
Sods law would have it, that as soon I set up a dirty great big black cloud would cover the sun. Half an hour I had to wait before I had the light I wanted. In that time I must have changed the composition of the photo about a hundred times. If I could have taken the photo straight off it would probably have been perfect; “maybe I should try it at a lower perspective” or “maybe slightly to the right or at a wider angle”. This happens to me all the time when I have to wait and probably cocks the shot up as a result.
But the thing is, even at times when things have been right and I can take the shot, I feel I have to take a hundred more photos at different angles and dangles to get the photo I want. Which, when I upload them on too the computer, 9 times out of 10 the best photo was the first shot I took. The result: I now have a 3 month old 250gb hard drive that is 3/4’s full. I have also discovered that I have a phobia; Deletesphotobia – the fear of deleting my photos from my computer.
I don’t know why I have this problem, maybe some Shrink will trace it back to my Mother, but I find I get to the point of the process where Windows asks “Do you really want to delete this file” only to find that my fore finger solidifies over the left mouse button. It doesn’t make much sense, I mean, I can always go back and take the photo again and as I said before, the first photo was the one I will use, so why? WHY? WHY?don’t I just delete them!
I guess I feel I’m deleting a memory or that there may be hope for the photo; a couple of filters in Photoshop, cut it there or just give it a water colour effect and say that was my intention when I took the photo. Maybe, I doubt my judgement of what is a good photo, that the world wide audience would really like the shot I am about to send too the pixel graveyard called the Recycle Bin. Whatever the reason, I need to do something quick, before I splash-out another 100 Euros on a new hard drive.
Anyway, as usual I thought I could do this shot better, I’ll go back with my wellies on and go further out in the river; I’ll do it tomorrow (today, Sunday). It came therefore, as I bit of a shock this morning to find the whole world was white; it had snowed. Here’s the proof:
click on image for full size
I have never known snow this early in the year. OK! we’re 200 MTS above sea level, but it’s still October, there’s still apples on the trees for gods sake! Yesterday I was by the river in a t’ shirt today I’m walking the dog in my ski jacket; crazy. The long and the tall of it though is: I can’t retake this photo again, well not today, and it’s not because of the light, it’s because I’m going to sit by the fire with a hot cuppa coco and watch the MOTOGP. Have a nice Sunday, I will!
The original: The Calm Before…. as hanging somewhere in Wendy’s (wenspics) house
This is the Colour Version of the above B&W Click on image for full size
~ by ducatirider on October 21, 2007.
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