Caching Memories
My good friend, Kris, is an avid scrapbooker as well as being a geocacher. Even though I swore up and down it wouldn’t happen to me, she’s gotten me hooked. She has since moved on to digital scrapbooking but I like working with paper, adhesive, and stickers.
You are probably asking yourself what scrapbooking and geocaching have in common, right? It might not sound like they have much in common, but they’re both really about memories.
So, the next time you’re out caching, be sure to pack a camera to record your trip. Here are seventips to make sure your pictures come out well.
- Have your subject look into the sun- the light will be behind the photographer. Yes, the subject might squint a bit looking into bright light, but you know that the entire face will be evenly lit. It just makes a better photo.
- Get close to your subject so it fills the entire frame in the camera. I prefer to do a combination of physically moving closer and the zoom.
- Take a few landscape shots that show the area around the cache. Try to photograph what the terrain is like: shoreline, water, trees, and the distant background. In Arizona, the background usually has big mountains in it!
- Get a least one photo of somebody holding up the cache, logbook, or cache contents.
- Photos with people in them are generally more interesting. Try to get at least a few shots with your group members in them. It’s always fun to look back on how fashion and hairstyles have changed.
- Ask somebody to take a group picture. Otherwise, you’ll get great memories of the trip, but no pictures of you! (I learned this the hard way on a solo vacation to London. When I got the prints downloaded, there were no pictures with ME in them. Very disappointing!) You can also bring along a tripod and use the camera’s self-timer feature.
- Do something with the pictures. Put them on your blog or website, email them to family, create a scrapbook, print and frame them. But, don’t feel you need to keep every single photo! Some are blurry, some are boring, etc. Pick out the ones that best tell the story of the adventure and share them.
Geocachers Weigh In:
- Do you usually bring a camera along on your caching trips?
- What are some of the best photos (memories or cool compositions) you’ve taken while caching?
- What was one time you wish you’d had your camera and didn’t bring it with you?
- What do you take photos of when you’re out caching?
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June 16, 2010 @ 9:12 pm
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June 19, 2010 @ 7:26 am
Yes we usually take the camera along.
We’ve taken some fun photos of the peole we are caching with. And some nice landscape shots from overlooks as well as soon good wildflower and wildlife shots.
I wish we had the camera with us the time a particular cache sent us to a rattlesnake den. (NOT ADVISED by the way.) But several rattlers were out sunning themselves and we could have had incredible shots. It was late one Nov. day and the snakes were torpid or semi-dormant so they didn’t react at all to us unless we got within 5 ft or so. (This cache has been moved !)
We often take pictures of wildflower, wildlife, landscapes, sunsets, animal tracks, interesting cache containers or locations, trees, geology, and of course the people we cache with.
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June 19, 2010 @ 12:32 pm
I’ve never ran into a rattlesnake while out and about! Was it cool or scary?
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June 21, 2010 @ 9:17 am
We always take pictures when we go geocaching. I have a pic for every one in a book. It’s really cool to look over them. The memories are priceless.
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June 21, 2010 @ 10:25 am
Marya — That is fantastic! I hate it when I look back on really cool family events and don’t have any photos.
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July 21, 2010 @ 6:45 pm
We have a tb named caching memories – it’s a geocaching scrapbook that we take to events. 🙂
http://www.geocaching.com/track/details.aspx?id=656770
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