For this week’s challenge, I invite you to take you on a walk around the zoo with me as I go in search of a photo. I take a lot of photos and I’m grateful for digital photography. It’s easy to go ahead and take a photo, try another angle, another setting perhaps. Think for a minute, try something else. The beauty of digital is that you can throw away all the duds. My laptop trash bin often has a lot in it. Here is a little gallery of our walk:
You can roll over any of the photos to see why they will not be making it into a blog post other than this one where I show you all my oops moments. For those of you who visit regularly, you will recognize that cheetah. He was in last week’s post looking like this:

ISO 800 f/5.6 1/250 0ev 200mm
To get that one photo, I took one hundred and twenty two photos, for me that is almost nothing.
I have a few that I will keep. I’ll edit those, make sure they are tagged, and save them to a separate hard drive too. The rest, well those are headed for the bulging trash bin.
Thanks for taking a walk with me. I always like chatting about photography. Feel free to comment below, either about what I have done here or about your own creative process.
Cheers!
My trash pile is my collection of photos. I do throw some of the worst ones away, but I struggle to throw anything away. Thank goodness for terabytes of storage. I may be headed there some day. 🙂 Beautiful lion shot – the others are fun! 🙂
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Yes, this was a fun post to write.
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Gorgeous cheetah photo, Amy. 🙂
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Thank you!
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LOL on your captions Amy, very brave to share your oops’s ! Now empty that trash bin and enjoy your favorite “keepers” !!
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Just click to delete 🙂
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Lovely shots of the animals at the zoo. Over a hundred photos on a day out. Not too bad. I take around the same number of photos too, sometimes even more, always trying out different angles. If it’s a place that I won’t come back for a while, then I’d be inclined to take even more.
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That’s true, it does depend on where I am and if I plan to come back. I also think it depends on what I am hoping to get out of the day.
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oh gosh, 122 photos ! the result is worth it !
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Thanks, I think it was worth it too 🙂
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Amy … That cheetah is very majestic. Those other animals, darn them, why can’t they just sit still? I also took a number of photos that have since been discarded.
I still have a steep learning curve. My most recent oops moment happened when we visited Valley of Fire in Nevada (about 50 miles outside of Las Vegas. All the photos had a blue tint – I had the camera on incandescent lighting for indoors rather than for the bright sunny outdoors.) 😉
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I think we all have those moments!
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My bin overflows often Amy 😉
Lots of great subjects here to re visit over and over though . A challenge with animals and birds, but when you find one as in your gorgeous lounging cheetah on downloading them – it’s a good feeling I know 🙂
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It is a good feeling. I love how you can revisit again and again.
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nice shot. perfect composition.
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Thanks!
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Oh the humor was a treat – and I like learning from your blog – and what a great take on oops!!! And now imagining how bulging the trash bin is – and does a Digital trash bin ever get too full? Hm u know does it have a size limit before mandatory empty!??
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I actually don’t know the answer to that question. I always empty it before it gets that full I guess!
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Well if I could guess – I bet it can hold a whole bunch ! Hope u have a nice holiday Amy!
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Let’s just say, I don’t want to tempt fate and have the whole thing explode on me or something!
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Bahhhh! I hear ya! ⚡️⚡️
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Merry Christmas…your photos are always a visual delight.
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Thanks!
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Happy New Year. All the best for 2016.
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Thanks, all the best to you as well, Happy New Year!
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THESE PHOTOS ARE INSANE !!!! They are amazing to look at !!!
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I am amazed, I love your artistic sens in taking pictures
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