Few are Chosen

They say one of the disadvantages of digital photography is that many photographs are taken but only a few are chosen to become prints !! This means that in years to come we will not have copies of photographs because they will die with our computers. When I got my first digital camera A Nikon 950 it came with a 16mb memory card. Last week Patricia bought me 3 memory cards each with four Gigabytes of memory !! Will this improve my photography or mean I will print more pictures, probably not. It does mean I can take more pictures. When I used a Mamiya film Camera I only got ten pictures on a role of film I was much more disciplined about what I took. It was costing too much every time I pressed the shutter, therefore I was careful when I pressed it, making sure everything was just right, afraid to waste film. Now I can take over 200 pictures on each card, and there are no processing costs so I can and have become less disciplined often I can look at whole memory cards and wonder just what was I thinking at the time! It always amazes me that no matter how many photographs I take on a day out when I review the pictures there will always be a favourite one or maybe two. So I work on these one or two and the rest are left unseen and forgotten in the computer vault! Well this evening as I had not got out with the camera I had to visit the vault. I am glad I did because I found this photograph in a file called “ Cong May 09”. Well its actually nine photographs stitched together to form a Panorama. I am pleased with it and wonder why I did not process it at the time I took it.