You really need that many photos?

[protege]

If I'm on a railroad convention, like the one last year, or any of my other hobbies...I can easily shoot 500 or more photos, especially if we're railfanning somewhere far from home, or if it's a "once in a lifetime" opportunity. For example, like being allowed to shoot photos of a classification yard off the roof of a certain railroad's administration building. Pretty cool stuff, but unfortunately, we all signed agreements that we wouldn't go around posting those online. Too bad, since you really do get a bird's eye view from up there But if I'd post those, not only would I get one of our 'inside connections' in trouble, but I could find myself in a similar fate. For now, they live on my laptop.

As for the project car, I'm sure there are well over a thousand photos of it on my Facebook page and other places. Between my dad and I, we took photos of about every step of that car's restoration. Some people might not find a shot comparing the old, battered carpet against the new stuff, but I sure did. Plus, if something was to ever happen to the car (or I should sell it), I'll be able to back up the claim that the car was restored.

[iradney]

TTO and I took over 500 pictures when we were on honeymoon. We took nearly 1000 when we visited my parents in Canadalandiadiadia. It's not completely unheard of, especially if you've gone to visit loved ones you haven't seen for a long time.

[slavetotheman]

Sucker bet time!

Who wants to bet that her surgery was scheduled for at least a week or more away?

Well yeah, how else was she going to finish 2 more orders beforehand?

[Dips]

I can see that somebody might want to finish up a project, like printing pictures, before being laid up from surgery.

[Andara Bledin]

Yeah, but when you have three rounds of 500 pics each, wouldn't it be the right thing to do to let those with smaller orders through between your rounds?

^-.-^

[mharbourgirl]

Yeah, but when you have three rounds of 500 pics each, wouldn't it be the right thing to do to let those with smaller orders through between your rounds?

^-.-^

Honey, I think you need to sit down for a minute, because I think you just got hit on the head.

Tell me, do you know where you are? Do you remember why we're all here?

I'm sure it'll come back to you soon.

[Dips]

Yeah, but when you have three rounds of 500 pics each, wouldn't it be the right thing to do to let those with smaller orders through between your rounds?

^-.-^

Sure. It would be the nice thing to do, but nobody is actually entitled to go first just because they have a smaller order than the person who got there first.

If somebody with a gallon of milk asks to go ahead of me in line while I'm buying a cart of groceries, I'll usually say yes. Heck. I normally will offer without being asked.

But sometimes that few minutes is vital to me and I have to say "no." I've been in the reverse position too. It's not fun but what am I gonna do? Bitch at the person who got there first just because *I* procrastinated long enough to put myself in a bind?

[Ree]

We took nearly 1000 when we visited my parents in Canadalandiadiadia. It's not completely unheard of

I have over 1500 pictures from my New Orleans trip.
I printed off about 200 one night.
It would have been more, but it was a money thing. LOL

[Tithera]

Sure. It would be the nice thing to do, but nobody is actually entitled to go first just because they have a smaller order than the person who got there first.

If somebody with a gallon of milk asks to go ahead of me in line while I'm buying a cart of groceries, I'll usually say yes. Heck. I normally will offer without being asked.

But sometimes that few minutes is vital to me and I have to say "no." I've been in the reverse position too. It's not fun but what am I gonna do? Bitch at the person who got there first just because *I* procrastinated long enough to put myself in a bind?

Again, I didn't procrastinate, I did not have time over the weekend to get the pictures I needed to, at all. I have to get pictures at certain times in the day (sunrise, midday, sunset). Sunrise and sunset are kind of hard for me, since I am busy inside during those times, so I had to wait until I did have time to take them, which happened to be the night before they were due. It kind of hurts to have someone say I was at fault because I procrastinated, when I didn't. If I had, then yes, I would have not asked her to let me go ahead, because it would have been a nice little reminder to myself that I had better work faster next time. Her surgery, wasn't for another month according to the lady who had been standing there for 45 minutes, because she asked the woman before hand, along with asking her why hadn't she come earlier in the day to do them or have a family member do them. She barked at her that it was none of her buisness and she just didn't feel like coming into the store until then because she was busy watching her soaps.
And no, I didn't bitch at her, I was polite to her until she was rude to me. Nor did I say I was "entitled" to go first. Had she completely refused to let me use it, I would have waited. I don't think I'm entitled to anything to be completely honest, but my mother always told me it was good to ask, just in case. The time was vital to me and obviously not to her, since she had a month to do this, along with the thinking that soaps were more important than going at a time when no one would be there. I do not, in any way, like the way you are describing me, pretty much landing me in the SC category, when I did not act like one in any way. I am sorry if that offends you, but now i feel offended by your comments.

[Dips]

I was talking about myself, not you. I don't know why you thought I was.

You just got caught in one of those unfortunate situations where you got held up due to timing and someone with a large order who was ahead of you in line.

It sucks when that happens but there's really nothing you can do about it if the person doesn't let you go first. Just like I couldn't do anything when it was me with my gallon of milk.

Sorry for the misunderstanding. I hope your project came out well.

[iradney]

Again, I didn't procrastinate, I did not have time over the weekend to get the pictures I needed to, at all. <SNIP> I do not, in any way, like the way you are describing me, pretty much landing me in the SC category, when I did not act like one in any way. I am sorry if that offends you, but now i feel offended by your comments.

Try re-reading Dip's post, Tithera. Nowhere in it does she mention you, but she does mention herself.

Things happen to all of us that result in us needing to get something important done RIGHT NOW. If someone else is busy using a piece of equipment for that task, it's not a terrible thing to ask them if you can quickly zip in for a few minutes. Of course, if they say no, then it's tough noogies. It sucks, but short of physically pushing that person off the equipment, there's not much you can do except wait.

[Tithera]

.................................................. ..........now I feel stupid. I do apologize then, Dips, that's my bad. I wasn't really in a good mood today and usually, I look at things differently when I'm in a bad mood. Wow, God I feel stupid. Again, sorry Dips, my bad. Wow.......

[Mytical]

I am one of those that has not taken 500 pictures in my life..and that is including a trip to Dragon Con. My camera can hold 1002 (with a very small memory chip)..it never has reached over 200..and most I didn't take.

[Kogarashi]

I don't usually take that many in one go. I could've come close on my honeymooon (Yellowstone Nat'l Park), except that was when I still had an Advantix camera and film was expensive for a broke college student, so I was carefully budgeting my shots. When I got my current camera for my birthday right before a trip to Hawaii, though (about three years later), I easily took over 1000 photos within the week. We actually had to dump a bunch of them from the memory card to my hubby's laptop to make room for more halfway through the trip, so it was probably close to a good 1500-2000 by the time we got home. And my camera doesn't even have an action setting (the continuous shots if you hold the shutter release down), or I'd probably be hitting that more frequently as I attempt to take photos of my kids.

But then Hubby and I also "triage" our photos, selecting for the best ones, and rarely if ever actually get them printed out. Yay for digital.

[Moirae]

Nice to see someone finally tell these annoying idiots off. I don't see why more people don't do that.