One of those days

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Lawrence

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I went out the other day with camera and tripod in hand for 4 hours - that's a lot for me.

Destination Hamilton Gardens - which as you can see is a great photo opportunity location.

It was a hot and very bright day and I had clearly left my photography eyes behind. I could not, for the life of me, either see or compose one decent image. Every one landed up in the trash.

Has this ever happened to anyone else or is my newly recreated hobby over before it even started?

Will my next post be in the "Camera For Sale" section? :apologetic:
 
Horoscope Fish

Horoscope Fish

Senior Member
Lawrence said:
Has this ever happened to anyone else or is my newly recreated hobby over before it even started?
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It absolutely has happened to me, and more than once. I've been in some very photogenic locales and, like you, for whatever reason the whole Spirit of Photography takes flight and I can't find a pull off a decent shot to save my life. Fortunately, I'm not a professional and when this happens I can just chalk it up and move on.


Lawrence said:
Will my next post be in the "Camera For Sale" section?
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Well that's up to you but it sounds to me like you were just having a crappy day. Put it behind you and don't worry about it. If you can't do that then you may need to consider another hobby because I'm pretty sure this happens to most photographers (creative types) from time to time. Those who *can't* get past it are probably not long for the hobby. Those that realize it's a passing thing crack open a book on Henri Cartier-Besson for a day or two, then go back out the next day and nail the shot at the same location.

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Michael J.

Michael J.

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Lawrence said:
Has this ever happened to anyone else
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To me - I went to Bangkok. My daughter joined a dance competition. I took lots of photos of that event. After the dance performance I went along the street of Bangkok and was amazed by those great subjects. Took photo until the 16 GB card was running out of space.

At home on my PC "Every" photo ended up in the trash. They were so awful without any life, details or a story.

At that day I told myself taking my heart into the place as well as my soul not only the eyes. My daughter said that it doesn't matter that we don't have got any photo of that event cos she felt she was not doing well too.

But nowadays she dances with her heart.

I think both of us, my daughter and I. learned our lesson that only to do something because it have/should be done is not enough to get the satisfaction what we wanted to achieve.
 
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Lawrence

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siamthai1 said:
To me - I went to Bangkok. My daughter joined a dance competition. I took lots of photos of that event. After the dance performance I went along the street of Bangkok and was amazed by those great subjects. Took photo until the 16 GB card was running out of space.

At home on my PC "Every" photo ended up in the trash. They were so awful without any life, details or a story.

At that day I told myself taking my heart into the place as well as my soul not only the eyes. My daughter said that it doesn't matter that we don't have got any photo of that event cos she felt she was not doing well too.

But nowadays she dances with her heart.

I think both of us, my daughter and I. learned our lesson that only to do something because it have/should be done is not enough to get the satisfaction what we wanted to achieve.
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​Sorry this happened to you but in a way glad too. I really felt the whole day that I just wasn't into it. I think I may go back one day and redo it. At least it was a lovely day.
 
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Krs_2007

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I think it happens to all of us, it does happen to me too and my photos show it.

Good story Micheal, we should all see the world through the eyes of a child.
 
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mikew_RIP

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Yesterday new venue,140 images crap weather ended up with two in my thread which i shouldn't really have posted, one in the almost thread,it happens still had a nice walk round though.
 
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