Digital BW, The Print

Mark Hahn wrote:
> Dang!  By my estimate that's about 6000 photos! 

Your calculation is about right. 

For our two weeks of holiday this year to Italy (mostly 
Tuscany and a couple of days in Venice), I perhaps shot 
a total of about 6000 frames. 

And I perhaps chucked about  1/3 of those before even 
backing  the rest of them up to CD.  So I came home with 
about  4000 frames. 

And in reviewing those, I perhaps regarded about 1200 
as "keepers" (i.e. worth making 4x6 prints and putting into
keepsake albums). 

And then of that, there was about 120 images which I was 
happy with (or happy enough with). 

About half of those (about 60) from that trip are here:

http://www.pbase.com/cjmorgan/italy_2003&page=all


And then of that, perhaps a final 15 of those will eventually get 
enlarged and wind up being framed and on the livingroom 
wall. 

So it takes a bit of time to distill it down. But yeah, you're
estimating is about right -- over those two weeks in Tuscany
& Venice, that camera went off about 6000 times.

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> Hope you were  traveling alone... 'cuz it's hard to imagine that 
> you were actually able to do anyting else...

It was myself and my wife. And some of it we did by car and
some if it we did by train. And more walking in two weeks than
I perhaps do in the whole rest of the year combined. LOL.

But we found time in there to see a couple of museums, and
a few churchs, and a day at a beach, and an afternoon taking
a tour in some caves, and trying a number of different restaurants
here and there, etc. etc.

But for me at least, I find I become much more mentally 
involved in any holiday I take if I have my camera with me --
I just find myself paying much more attention to what's most
immediately in front of me... if for no other reason than the
fact that this is the stuff which I'm going to be using to
construct or compose my pictures. So the more I shoot,
the more attentive I am on holidays. And perhaps that's
a good thing so that all the expense it took to get and
be there is well being utilized.

But that's me and what I personally find most enjoyable
from travel and holiday time -- I enjoy it most when I
get to make images.

CJ


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