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Are your memories as good as your photos?
Mark's thread got me thinking - how do our memories weigh up against our photos?
I'm beginning to think mine are a blur, compared to photos - because when I look at old photographs they seem to bring back things much more vividly - for a moment it feels like I've gone back in time. A bit like a jolt.
How about you?
I'm beginning to think mine are a blur, compared to photos - because when I look at old photographs they seem to bring back things much more vividly - for a moment it feels like I've gone back in time. A bit like a jolt.
How about you?
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My memory is generally hopeless anyway, but my memories of some moments are more vivid than my photos! 
then there are other moments that I am really glad to have photos of, because it's wonderful to have them brought back to me in technicolour <3
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then there are other moments that I am really glad to have photos of, because it's wonderful to have them brought back to me in technicolour <3xx
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Your memory can often conjure up mental picture of which you have no photos of. Photos act as an aide memoire for times forgotten.
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I've a few photographs taken on nights out that I have absolutely no recollection of at all 
Joking aside - I think it depends. Some pictures I have are like add ons to clear memories. Other pictures bring back memories that had pretty much faded.
I guess it depends how memorable the event was or why I'd taken the photographs.
Joking aside - I think it depends. Some pictures I have are like add ons to clear memories. Other pictures bring back memories that had pretty much faded.
I guess it depends how memorable the event was or why I'd taken the photographs.
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Photos certainly seem to bring back details of that moment in time.
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How strange
I've just turned the page in the August edition of 'The Great Outdoors' (TGO) magazine to find a page entitled - 'Photographic Memories' by Chris Townsend.
I wish I could provide a link but he talks of how a set of great landscape shots can be emotive, exciting and inspiring but often it's the mundane images that can be the most memorable. Often he has such photos that won't be so good technically and he may never show them to anybody but they are still a record of a moment precious to him.
I guess I can relate to what he's saying. I might go away for a day or two taking pictures and i'll come back with a load of landscapes shots and then a few silly snaps of us messing about. When I think back to the trip years later - it's the messing about I remember most fondly and I wish I had spent more time taking those.
I've just turned the page in the August edition of 'The Great Outdoors' (TGO) magazine to find a page entitled - 'Photographic Memories' by Chris Townsend.
I wish I could provide a link but he talks of how a set of great landscape shots can be emotive, exciting and inspiring but often it's the mundane images that can be the most memorable. Often he has such photos that won't be so good technically and he may never show them to anybody but they are still a record of a moment precious to him.
I guess I can relate to what he's saying. I might go away for a day or two taking pictures and i'll come back with a load of landscapes shots and then a few silly snaps of us messing about. When I think back to the trip years later - it's the messing about I remember most fondly and I wish I had spent more time taking those.
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Originally Posted by Phil
How strange
I've just turned the page in the August edition of 'The Great Outdoors' (TGO) magazine to find a page entitled - 'Photographic Memories' by Chris Townsend.
I wish I could provide a link but he talks of how a set of great landscape shots can be emotive, exciting and inspiring but often it's the mundane images that can be the most memorable. Often he has such photos that won't be so good technically and he may never show them to anybody but they are still a record of a moment precious to him.
I guess I can relate to what he's saying. I might go away for a day or two taking pictures and i'll come back with a load of landscapes shots and then a few silly snaps of us messing about. When I think back to the trip years later - it's the messing about I remember most fondly and I wish I had spent more time taking those.
I've just turned the page in the August edition of 'The Great Outdoors' (TGO) magazine to find a page entitled - 'Photographic Memories' by Chris Townsend.
I wish I could provide a link but he talks of how a set of great landscape shots can be emotive, exciting and inspiring but often it's the mundane images that can be the most memorable. Often he has such photos that won't be so good technically and he may never show them to anybody but they are still a record of a moment precious to him.
I guess I can relate to what he's saying. I might go away for a day or two taking pictures and i'll come back with a load of landscapes shots and then a few silly snaps of us messing about. When I think back to the trip years later - it's the messing about I remember most fondly and I wish I had spent more time taking those.
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