Save ALL Of Your Images
Monday, June 27, 2011 at 9:01AM
You never know what you may have inadvertently captured. It's so easy to take lots and lots and lots of photographs. So many that often we delete what we consider "junk" so we're only left with the best images.
On more than one occasion, I've gone through old pictures that I once thought of as "junk" and found clues that piece together a story. Whether it be the location of where a photo was taken to who was present to helping identify objects from an old closed restaurant...photos I normally would have discarded turned out to be very useful.
You never know what you may have inadvertently captured. We all may have heard the story of Dirck Halstead who caught a picture of Bill Clinton & Monica Lewinski at a White House function in 1996. Halstead was shooting with film while most other photographers around him were shooting digital. They all undoubtedly deleted the same photo to save space on their memory cards, but Halstead's image was preserved because he used film and it ended upon the cover of Time.
Digital photography let's us take countless images. Be very careful of what you call "junk" and delete forever.