the dailypic 4700 yr13 317 Road Work

I spent a few hours today downloading, cataloging, and organizing the photos from the trip. I did not work on them much while on the road. Downloaded just enough to feed this page each night, and that was it. So I got to look at them briefly. Lots to go through, 13 days, 4 cameras if I count the phone, about 5K images taken. Seems about right, too many, to be honest, but when I figure in the panoramics (20 photos to make one) or the bracketing of exposures (3-5 multiple versions of images), the number will go down quickly. The goal for me would be a 20 I am proud of, a great set of 40-50, with a third-level set to tell the story in the range of 150, but I will see.

I still have not shared the complete set of Iceland photos from June 2021. The best ones are out there, but I know I have more. Travel photos are hard for me. I always leave more images behind than I take, so when it comes time to share, I still think of the ones not taken. Mitch Hedberg is my favorite comedian, and he had a joke about joke writing – “I write jokes for a living, I sit at my hotel at night, I think of something that’s funny, then I go get a pen, and I write it down. Or if the pen is too far away, I have to convince myself that what I thought of ain’t funny.” I relate my photography to that all the time. Ask my wife about the photo opportunities I had to pass up due to time, direction, plan, dogs, etc., and convince myself what I thought I saw “ain’t good.” Then I go through the photos and spend time looking at the panning of trucks on the highway I took early one morning at a rest stop. I have gorgeous landscape scenes and wildlife photos, and this is what I spent time on today (not a lot, but still). To be honest, I did find the trucks and trains just as interesting as the nature.

They will trickle out as time allows. I also am due for a new photo show, maybe another travel photography exhibit. Thinking about it will help me get the best of the best ready not only for this trip but the others that came before that still need to be finished.

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