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Photography Alzheimer: When one loses photographs

By Niky Sama

8 February 2008

I like to believe that I'm not the only stupid photographer that set the camera to SQ (1280x960) instead of SHQ or HQ (3264x2448) or up because of the memory space of your camera while you are on vacation without a computer to download or you are cheap like me.

I go to Puerto Rico for months at a time and the first time I took my baby (the camera) there I just had a 1 GB memory card, although it was a really good memory card it wasn't enough.

I had three (3) shootings everyday and personal vacations photos I needed to take so I stupidly choose to change my settings to SQ. They are not lost forever but they are not good for printed work like JPG magazine and others so although they are great I can print them only up to eight (8) by ten(10) and it's not enough for galleries and magazines.

I can't make those memories again believe I try but it's not the same, you will never be in the moment again, the sky will not be the same, the model or me, nothing will be the same since the season when I return to Puerto Rico will change.

How about the pictures you took and they are completely destroyed by forces of nature or negative lost?

I had that problem too. Once I lost my small camera 1 GB memory card in the mall and went back to the place where I started but it came back without results. I don't even remember what was on the memory card but I remember I cried that day because of it. It's so frustrating because like I said when the moment is gone there's no turning back.

After you lose the memory card or the negatives you start thinking what was on it and you kind of remember but then you forget some of the pictures and you even end up losing the memory of the time you took them.

-still editing my memories

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