I've been flipping through and loading onto Facebook a bunch of photos that DH and I've taken on various vacations through the years. I look at our first group of "digital" pictures taken on our 2004 trip to Italy (DH bought the camera while I was at my language school and brought it over with him when he joined me for some traveling). They're pretty awful. All kinds of interesting corners are cut off whatever we're taking a picture of, lighting is awful, and there aren't enough pictures of either of us with whatever we're photographing. I then look at some of the pictures I took on our trip to London, and while I'm not even an amateur photographer by any stretch of the imagination, I can definitely see an improvement. I seem to be thinking more about what I'm taking a picture of, rather than just snapping away and hoping it turns out okay. I'm also making sure that I have lots of pics of one of us in there, since the memory isn't really supposed to be the building or the art or whatever, but the fact that I was there with someone.
I really regret the paucity of pictures from my 2006 trip to St John with Jeffro and CCHarmony. By then, DH and I had been to St John twice already, and I guess we just thought we had enough pictures. I really regret not having pics of all of us fooling around in the pool and on the pool deck, rambling around in the Jeep, splitting open our poached coconut, etc.
At least I've learned to just keep snapping. If I get one fantastic photo for every 5 I take I'll be happy.
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