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Why I save all my photos

Shelley

I save (almost) all of my photos I take.  Why?  Because…I never know when they’ll help a story unfold.

Even the blurry ones have a story behind them.  How about you?  What do you think?

Do you, as an aspiring writer, find real challenges come in when asked to write from word prompts you didn’t pick yourself, or that you wouldn’t have chosen from a selection of photos?

We have to ask ourselves, “Can I put any passion into someone else’s ideas or can I only write stories on my own?”

I dunno – can I?  Can you?  Maybe there’s something here to discover?

Better yet, since I did bring it up, how about if I ask you to use my first-round discarded, less than perfect, photos to entice you to tell me a story for me since I don’t have the time to write…because I have to get to work early – (and you have nothing better to do…I’m assuming so, because you read the post this far already!)  

So here you go, accept the challenge – pick one photo (or all if you’re like me and can’t choose) and caption it or write a mini-story in the comments.  I can’t wait to get back from work to read all of your creativity…

Don’t let me down…Santa’s Elf is watching for good behavior and kindness – or –

Example:  “Man, please cheer her up, I feel sorry for Shelley that she couldn’t write for herself today…you wanna play along, yes, I know you do”!

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Exhibit A (Hint…There’s a package under the tree on the left that’s just tugging at your heart to share a story…)

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Exhibit B (Come on now…there’s plenty of options – betcha wanna know how old all of that sheet music is)

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Exhibit C

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Exhibit D

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Exhibit E 

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Exhibit F

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Thanks for playing along!  Feel free to write a better title for the post, or a story for the feature photo too!

Post Inspiration:  Linda G. Hill’s #1LinerWed – #WritersLife

PS – I adore your creativity – don’t be shy, share away!  

 

 

Published by Shelley

Letting my quirk out one post at a time.

28 thoughts on “Why I save all my photos”

  1. All fun pictures. The one with the dog pulls me. (I’m mostly a dog person, but cats are okay.) This one is saying, “When the most adorable queen of the house is napping, you must hold me and not move except to adore me.”

  2. Shelley, I would love to play along, but I can’t figure out how to paste a photo into this comment section! I had one all ready to go! 🙁

  4. OK, I’ll play with my quirky side. Exhibit A – “My feet. All she got of me was my feet. Oh sure, the cats always get a full picture. I am sitting here in this rocker waiting on getting my beauty to be taken and all she gets is my feet.
    Exhibit B – It’s not even 6am yet. And my eyes are not even focusing. Need more coffee.
    Exhibit E – The new family, The girls are grown and on their own so now we are down to three but the love is still strong.
    Last but not least Exhibit F – Mama hooman is at it again with the Christmas lights. She has them draped all though the banner posts for the stairs. Enough already. Hmmm, think its time to go take a nap.

    Have a great week.

    1. I LOVE your quirky side, Anita – I’m sending you all my pictures from now on ;-)! Thank you for playing along! Hope you have a great week too!!

  7. Exhibit F,
    I’ve sat here all day, frozen to the spot, afraid to twitch a whisker, waiting for my hooman to arrive on the scene and save me from that huge scary glow worm!

  8. I have many photos of critters missing a body and all that is there is a snout, or a tail, or a blurry brown streak. Same with the birds … a friend suggested I use the “sports setting” on the camera – it has not helped. You have to be quick like a bunny all the time.

    1. Yes, animals in motion are hard to catch on film. I try with Copper all the time outside, and sometimes I get a good shot. I admire sports photographers – but, remember, we only see their finals, not all of the blurry out-takes!

      1. Yes that is true too Shelley. Animals move so quickly and yesterday I was trying to get a picture of a cardinal. I saw him going from the tree to the ground to snag a peanut from the squirrels. I was afraid to blink as I wanted that shot. I got it, closer would have been better. I had some really close shots in the Spring, but with animals, you have to take what you get unless you use an extremely long lens. I follow a wildlife photographer, and his pictures of eagles, shore birds, seals and bears are just amazing. He has a long lens and shoots from a boat and they are just amazing shots.

        1. I have a long lens on my bucket list – I’m just afraid that it would be too heavy to keep steady! But, I’d love to be able to get great shots like wildlife photographers.

          1. I follow some photographers who do mostly birds and use a long lens, but Wayne of Tofino Photographer has given me some pointers and suggested getting a monopod to make yourself steadier … my long lens is not that long, just 75-300 but I had the feeling that if I was on unsteady ground and using that lens I had to support it or feel like I couldn’t focus well as the lens seemed heavier than the camera body. The Canon Rebel T6 has an extremely light body after being used to the 35 mm lens. Think of using a monopad to steady your camera/long lens if Santa brings you one. 🙂

  11. In our house, Exhibit-A would be “the presents are stacked like stairs leading to the blue shiny ornament that is about to meet the dustbin.”

    PS, I am still not getting notifications. I don’t know why WordPress is being so contrary. I’ll be back later to catch up.

    1. LOL – Thanks for sharing a most excellent title for the photo! I’m having trouble with WP too, grr! Thanks for stopping by, always a joy to hear from you!

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