Pixels are free man, take that shot!

Ever shoot a roll of film?

You had to pick your shots, didn't you?

You only had certain number of exposures on that roll. You HAD to wait....for....just...the...right...shot....

If you shot film and have made the transition to digital, it's damn hard to get out of that mindset. I STILL do it. Try as I might, I find myself picking my shots and only taking the shot once.

And how the hell about that huge screen on the back of the camera? You can instantly check the quality of your shot the second after you took it! The best thing since sliced bread. Couldn't do that with film. Oh yeah sure, checking each shot does run down your battery faster, but that's why you have several batteries in your camera bag all charged up, ready to go right? (Hint, hint....go get some more batteries.)

Now you're using pixels, which are free (Remember how much it cost to get film processed? Naw, neither do I.) and that's why you have several memory cards. (Hint...hint....write that on your shopping list, right under batteries, no it's cool, I'll wait.......got it? Sweet, let's continue, shall we?)

When you are on that vacation of a life time or at that one event that will never happen again, use those cards and check your shots!

The picture for tonight was shot in Salisbury Cathedral in England. It is a shot of the reflection on a fountain, whose water is as smooth as glass. It was amazing.

Annnnd....this is the only one that sort of turned out. I blew the highlight out on this one. The others were out of focus or had other issues.

Did I check the shots to see if I was getting what I wanted?

Nope. Damnit. I was walking around with about 20 gigs of cards and around 150 gigs of memory in a card dump device. No excuses there.

I don't advocate the "Spray and pray" style of photography (though I do hear that's a wonderful way to fire a machine gun) instead, take frequent pictures, check them often and have plenty of batteries and memory cards on hand. Don't kick yourself later like I did (the bruises are still healing.)