After I take my photos, I get home, take my boots off and trek up the stairs to my room. I take my camera out of my back pack and plop the bag down on my bed. My mind then goes to excitement as my computer boots up. I always sort my photos neatly in dated folders on my computer if I ever need to find them for future use. Then comes the best part, its like a game of wheres waldo, looking through every single photo at all of the details. All the things that you might have missed in the moment but captured it to last forever. A think I like to do is look at crowds and find people that in that split second moment I took the picture , are also making eye contact with the camera. Now forever and ever they will be immortalized as the random person that noticed my presence in that moment. I find those the funniest, candid photos where someone in the crowd notices the camera pointing in their direction. One of my favorite ones are of the current Chief of Police of Washingtonville, but back before he was Chief. He was working traffic at a car accident , and right as he was exiting a vehicle his eyes locked contact with my camera right as I saw snapping a photo. The look on his face says "Are you kidding me" Who would have thought that years later I would grow closer with the department through my photos, and he would be promoted to Chief.
So the moral of the story is, admire your photos, look at all the stories hidden within your photos. Don't just snap and forget.
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