Vemödalen...

[Xipe Totec]

From:

http://www.buzzfeed.com/danieldalton/my-pain-has-a-name#.shLVV5W7qG

[F4lconF16]

1. Meh.

Every photo has it's own unique characteristics, and the real importance is it's meaning to you. Just because those photos exist doesn't take away from the one you have--particularly since there's a very good chance you don't have any access to those photos.

Edit: not gonna lie, definitely have experienced that though

[Xipe Totec]

3. Yes, It's all about describing the emotion.

Which I oftentimes experience.

[handmade34]

2. yah...

but it's mine!

[Binkie The Clown]

4. I know that feeling.

I'll take some picture I think is terrific, until I realize I've already seen it in magazines, on postcards, and in somebody else's photobucket or flickr account. I took a wonderful picture of a local bridge, and then saw virtually the identical picture in the newspaper a month or two later. There's very few places you can stand to get a good view of the whole bridge, so everybody's picture of the bridge looks about the same.

I guess that's why I'm dissatisfied with my own photography. I fell like there ought to something more artistic involved. I'm sure everybody's oil painting or watercolor of that same bridge looks unique and distinctive to the individual artist. That's want I want out of my photos.

[Blue_In_AK]

6. A way to challenge yourself

is to take shots of the same place using different lenses, also try taking shots of the microcosm, not necessarily the "big picture."

My husband and I take our morning walk along the same portion of our coastal trail five days a week. I take the camera every day, but sometimes I take a wide-angle lens, sometimes a telephoto, sometimes I take macro rings so I can get really close to the moss and tiny stuff on the ground. It's a challenge to always find something interesting, but it's good.

[Binkie The Clown]

7. Like maybe instead of taking the ssme picture of the bridge that everyone else takes,...

focus on building an interesting image out of one single rivet in the ironwork. I get it. Maybe I'll give that a try. After all, what is art but showing people something they see every day but fail to ever actually see?

[Blue_In_AK]

8. Exactly.

There are always new details to every familiar scene - paying attention to the small things is mind-expanding. Your creative potential is limitless.

[csziggy]

5. Hah! Sometimes the "identical" picture can tell a lot about time

In our stash of slides is one I took of my husband at King's Canyon in front of a redwood in January of 1978. Recently I saw a photo of a little boy in front of a redwood and compared the two - it's the same redwood from a slightly different angle but the tree has been growing for almost forty years.

In March I brought home a couple of boxes of slides from my parents' house. Some were from their honeymoon - when I get a chance to upload I'll show you guys a selfie from 1946 that my Dad took of him kissing Mom. After they were married in February 1946 they drove from California to Florida, visiting all the standard tourists spots along the way.

One of the shots was Mom standing in front of a redwood. The same redwood that my husband stood in front of in 1978 and the little boy stood in front of sometime recently - but in the picture of Mom a side root has space below the root where the ground had worn away. In the picture of the little boy that root has filled in and there is no space.

Even though thousands of nearly identical photos have been taken of that redwood, with or without people standing in front of it, they are all different.