Travelogue observations - 10th September 2019 - My Crap Holiday Snaps

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[grahame]

My Crap Holiday Snaps ... by which I mean my Crap (Holiday Snaps) and not my (Crap Holiday) Snaps.  It's the snaps that are crap and not the holiday!

Digital technology has brought the cost per picture down ... and us amateurs love to take them now not dozens but hundreds and thousands at a time.  Few - very few get printed or used further and it's so easy to experiment and end up with a high proportion of - err - duds.  Here are some duddish examples.

Please vote in a poll ... for as few as many as you like, which you feel are the crappiest pictures!   Just a bit of fun - but giving you transport fans something of a behind the facade view of what we've been up to so far on our travels.

1. Just one of a pack of photographers


2. Notice in the way.


3. Nothing to sea here


4. Confusing mixture?


5. Oops - didn't mean to click the shutter button


6. Darned cars in the foreground!


7. Clutter and people in way. And hard to photograph a black dog


8. Secret picture - too secret, need to lift the camera


9. Fingers, thumbs and moray effects


10. Clean up the clutter before you photograph a room


11. Beware irritating reflections


12. Oops - I meant to take a scene and took a selfie - use of wrong camera in phone

[JayMac]

I chose 3,5,9 for composition fails. And 12 because I didn't really want to see up your nose!

[GBM]

3 to me is very evocative.
Also reminds me of a collision in the Dover Straits some 50 years ago (before [Dover Straits] Channel Navigation Information System came into being).
We were hit midships by another ship in fog.  No injuries or loss of life thankfully, but gave us 2 weeks at Shellhaven (Thames) then Bremerhaven for 5 weeks drydock repair.  A lovely way to start seagoing life!

[MVR S&T]

Any general pictures of food have no value in my mind. any pics of interiors of cabins, hotel rooms, shops, signal boxes and pubs even now are rare.

[Richard Fairhurst]

Never mind "Clean up the clutter" on 10, grahame, you should clean up your Mac desktop on 9! 

[grahame]

Thank you for your votes.

Worst pictures ... a tie between these two:



and in equal third, these two:



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