Re: the wasted photos on your phone

Stop taking loads of photos of the same thing with your phone. Del wrote a brief note to self recently, about having too many repeated "waste" pictures on his phone. This is my reply, which hopefully helps him see his camera roll in a new light. I have come to accept that the purpose of those thousands of "waste" photos is not too be seen, shared, printed, but simply to be taken. Both Del and I are accomplished photographers, and I'm sure we can take a great single shot of whatever on our phones, if we want to. It takes a bit of planning, moving around, framing, but once the viewfinder shows the result we want, the moment can be immortalized forever with a single click of the shutter button. Instead, what we do, Del, I, and everybody else, is to use the camera as a memory collection device. I believe when we shoot something from every possible angle, or take multiple identical frames, we are creating a memory map of that moment. A single frame couldn't possibly register everything,…