BlueBear
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Post by BlueBear on Aug 11, 2015 14:10:58 GMT -8
Every once in awhile. Many I never look at again, unless I want to share a particular moment online, which happens here from time to time. Some of the photos I've submitted later to various venues, including calendars and such, some of which have been published. It's useful to have them readily available.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 11, 2015 14:16:35 GMT -8
Maybe rarely I go back specifically for the purpose of reliving a trip. But I can't think of anytime when I have. I do, however, occasionally go searching for a photo I remember and find myself "paging" through multiple slideshows looking for that photo. And I'm not averse to stopping and paying closer attention to a few photos.
Maybe a third to a half of the trips spent in the backcountry I don't take any photos at all. It's not unusual to spend multiple days in the backcountry without taking a single photo. But I still have around 500 days worth of photos arranged by date and location — just from the last 15 years.
Some of my best memories are of night hikes and there is simply no way to record with a camera what it is like hiking along off-trail in the so-called "dark."
I never carried a camera for about 28 years because film was expensive and I was seeking memories and words, not trophies. I still have a tendency to be that way. I rummage through my memories more often than my photos.
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desert dweller
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Post by desert dweller on Aug 11, 2015 14:32:20 GMT -8
Only the ones I've uploaded to my flickr account. Occasionally, I'll put a slide show on the big screen for background at home when I have some friends over.
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Post by Lamebeaver on Aug 11, 2015 15:10:11 GMT -8
I've occasionally taken a walk down memory lane..... 10 years ago  Heading off to college next week  |
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Woodsie
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Post by Woodsie on Aug 11, 2015 16:07:45 GMT -8
I love taking pics and sharing them! Some of you who post here and on Facebook know that already  From time-to-time I do go back and look at photos from past trips. Also, every year I make calendars for my family and a few close friends. I take a ton of pics throughout the year so I have a lot to choose from. Obviously not everyone likes to take a camera along, but some of us do. And I do take time to look at the world without a camera attached to my face  |
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Post by echo on Aug 11, 2015 16:15:35 GMT -8
I'm super visual but my family is not. My husband teaches music. So my passion for light and color he understands but doesn't share. I love having an online photo community that gets that part of me. So I scrounge through old pictures a lot, use them in books and bliss and to make paintings from, and to post by theme on the photo forum
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Post by tipiwalter on Aug 11, 2015 16:43:42 GMT -8
I started backpacking around 1957 and of course didn't have a camera to record most of my trips. I returned to serious backpacking in 1977 and still didn't have a camera to record my adventures. I eventually squared away a camera and now record all my trips with individual trip reports and the necessary fotogs etc. A couple years ago I wanted some real organization of my trips so I got on Smugmug for $40 a year and it's very helpful when I discuss backpacking on the interweb. Why? Because if I'm on a forum (like this one) and someone discusses Asolo boots or Slickrock wilderness or flawed Thermarest pads or creek crossings a certain picture comes to mind and all I have to do is find it on my Smugmug keyword feature to post it quickly in a forum. I also keep a detailed written journal of my trips which is also posted online. In fact, I can use the keyword feature right this minute to find my pen and paper in-field trail journal and post a pic---  This has really helped |
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amaruq
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Post by amaruq on Aug 11, 2015 16:43:49 GMT -8
I'm sure anyone who's noticed will see I take (and have been posting) a lot of photos.
I've a nice little, albeit older, Canon PowerShot P&S that I bring on every major outing. It weighs very little and packs a lot of camera.
I occasionally flip through my old photos for the sake of reminiscing, but mostly to find one to post to various places (on forums, with gear reviews, with TRs) or show others who ask about them.
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Post by JRinGeorgia on Aug 11, 2015 18:49:05 GMT -8
Starting with about Windows 7 and still part of Windows 10 today is the option to set your desktop to a slideshow. I sort the photos by trip the way most people do but I also copy what I feel are my best shots into a separate folder, and I set the desktop slideshow to randomly pick photos from that "highlight reel" folder and it will just rotate through them. So I have a constantly changing desktop background and I'm reliving trips all the time.
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Post by 1camper on Aug 11, 2015 19:05:39 GMT -8
Yes. It inspires more trips.
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Post by llamero on Aug 11, 2015 19:29:12 GMT -8
I take a lot of pictures of camping trips and I enjoy looking at them from time to time to remember dear friends and the acquaintances that have passed through my life.
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BigLoad
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Post by BigLoad on Aug 11, 2015 20:01:38 GMT -8
I look as my whims dictate.  |
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amaruq
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Post by amaruq on Aug 12, 2015 4:29:01 GMT -8
Starting with about Windows 7 and still part of Windows 10 today is the option to set your desktop to a slideshow. I sort the photos by trip the way most people do but I also copy what I feel are my best shots into a separate folder, and I set the desktop slideshow to randomly pick photos from that "highlight reel" folder and it will just rotate through them. So I have a constantly changing desktop background and I'm reliving trips all the time. I do this on my work computer. Between the three screens one is often just a view of the desktop. Makes for off-topic discussion starters when people stop into my cube. |
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Post by High Sierra Fan on Aug 12, 2015 10:33:55 GMT -8
Rarely for an entire set but as an incidental part of my hunting for a particular image of a plant or location or person or whatnot I will, comes up every once in a while. Sure easier with digital compared to slides even when the number per trip are so much larger for digital due to they're being "free" as opposed to the film purchase and processing costs. I mean I thought it was extraordinary when I brought a 20 roll brick (so ~ 720 frames) on a Colorado River dory trip, possibly "once in lifetime..." while I thought nothing of coming back with three cards loaded with over 1,400 images from a routine two week vacation end of this July.
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rebeccad
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Post by rebeccad on Aug 12, 2015 11:10:57 GMT -8
We do, actually. Our whole family is addicted to slide shows (we spent 3 hours "visiting" Mongolia last night...), so we not only often have multiple showings of shows right after trips, but are happy to go back and re-watch an old one. Occasionally we even haul out the real slides and projector. Also use the slide show option for screen saver fun. Then we can play "where's that?" and waste a lot of time |
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From time-to-time I do go back and look at photos from past trips. Also, every year I make calendars for my family and a few close friends. I take a ton of pics throughout the year so I have a lot to choose from.
