As you probably can guess, I shoot a LOT of photos. I tell people that I do photography by “brute force.” In other words, I shoot lots of frames and hope that there will be a few good ones. As a result, I have 1,000s of images stored on hard drives. And, although it is tempting sometimes, I rarely delete photographs unless they are horribly out of focus or have some other technical problem. Oftentimes, I will load all of the most recent images on my computer and fly though them looking for “that” shot. The one that I remember taking and can’t wait to see full size. This strategy means that I sometimes bypass a pretty nice image while searching for another.
Lately, I have started searching through those old files, looking for a hidden gem. This weekend was one of those times. Here are a couple of photos that I had skipped long ago. They certainly aren’t my best, but they should have a least made the “cut.”
With data storage getting less and less expensive, there is really no reason to delete files on the first pass. I am finding more and more that some of the images that I didn’t care for during the first (and brief) viewing, are not so bad. My guess is that many photographers are similar in this regard.
Fort Macon, North Carolina
Blue Heron, Chocowinity Bay, North Carolina