What's your excuse for not going out and taking photos?

[ME Super]

My excuse last night was that I was scanning some slides I'd recently got back from the lab. They'd been sitting for a couple weeks. Now that I have a decent scanner, I can do higher res scans than what I get back from the lab, at least for 35mm.

Once I have that done, I have to write codes on all the slides I took from my Colorado trip this past summer. Once that's done, I can catalog them in a quick and dirty little app I wrote. Once that's done, I can put them in order for a slide show, then once I've done that, I can assign the slides that I've cataloged in the quick & dirty little app I wrote to a specific slide show in the little app I just mentioned. Doing all this lets me have a slide assigned to multiple slide shows, and I can put together any slide show I want in a fairly short period of time by bringing it up in the app and exporting the slide show to a spreadsheet.

Why am I doing all this? I know I won't live forever. I'd like for my kids to be able to figure out what's what with regards to my photos without having to project them all or eyeball them under a loupe. If they're subjects of interest, they can pull out the slides they want to keep (I don't think there's any way they'll want to keep them all!) A copy of the application and database (both my kids have computers), or a printed catalog might help them do that.

Other excuses apply too. This time of year it's almost dark when I get off work. Other times the weather's crappy, or it's too cold (or too hot). Maybe I'll get out and shoot a bit this weekend. We're supposed to have rain and snow; sometimes good photographs can come from terrible weather!

 

[Old_Dick]

My immune system. You plan and plan, and then it says, some other day

 

[pcyco]

sitting in the office

 

[grahamp]

Smoke. And it is hardly an excuse, just now.

 

[Richard Searle]

Waiting for the next bright idea to come along.

 

[Ste_S]

I have to go to work most days. When I get home, it's either too hot to be outside in the summer, or too dark in the winter. Also, there's nothing worth photographing nearby where I live or work. The suburbs are boing and people don't like you taking photos of their property, the city streets of Oklahoma are abandoned except for homeless people (whom I'm not going to take advantage of), the architecture is bad outside of the few buildings that I've shot to death already, and the natural landscape is kind of sad. The best thing out here is farms and abandoned barns, but that'll get you shot with bullets, not film. So I mainly just photograph on vacations or weekends, and even then, it's hard to get a free weekend with all of the chores that need done.

Though that's all just excuses. I could shoot still lifes in winter, drink plenty of water in the summer, get more chores done on the weekdays after work, and you can always find something interesting to photograph anywhere, if you have the eye for it. You just need to approach it with an open mind and make the best of the situation at hand, rather than go into it with a bunch of preconceived notions.

Work gets in the way and after work at this time of year it's dark. There are lots of interesting ships and buildings that I could photograph at lunchtime but either I have photographed them so many times before that I can't really see the point (I need to try to be more original) or they are in areas where photography is prohibited. I'm even running short of photographic subjects when posted overseas for the same reasons.

Well, it now get dark at around 4pm so I can't really do anything until the weekends. Come winter (soon) it'll be too damn cold to take most photos. Nothing irritates me more than having to stand still with my fingers freezing setting up, adjusting shutter speeds, etc.

B&W pushed to 1600ISO with a fast lens is perfectly fine for shooting the city hand held at night. I've been having a blast the past month doing it.

 

[Arklatexian]

Saw this CBC story about a photographer making the most of her love for photography and people. Enjoy!

Anything that would keep me from going out and taking pictures would be a "reason", not an "excuse". I quit making"excuses" for any reason about 70 years ago. I have only had "reasons" since then. However if you need an "excuse" in this case it would be because I don't have a rolleiflex like the woman in the newspaper article. I don't think she is strong enough to hold s Hasselblsd.......Regards!