{"id":4077,"date":"2013-04-27T12:52:00","date_gmt":"2013-04-27T17:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/?p=4077"},"modified":"2021-08-25T09:25:48","modified_gmt":"2021-08-25T14:25:48","slug":"keep-a-photo-trip-log","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/?p=4077","title":{"rendered":"Keep a Photo Trip Log"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_4078\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/110511-trip-log-April-25-5D-2pg-5D-9893-w8.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4078\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4078\" title=\"Trip Log April 25, 2011\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/110511-trip-log-April-25-5D-2pg-5D-9893-w8.jpg\" alt=\"Photo Trip Log\" width=\"800\" height=\"629\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4078\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo Trip Log<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A photo trip log is a good way to refresh your memory. It comes in very handy when you want to find a photo location again if your photos aren&#8217;t GPS tagged, and a photo log is very useful when a photo editor wants the details on one of your photos. This photo is of two pages out of a total of four pages of notes I made on April 25, 2011.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>I keep travel and photo notes in a spiral notebook when I travel in order to refresh my memory later on. I keep track of distances and travel times and good places to eat and stay (and a few places NOT to eat or stay the next time I am in the area).<\/p>\n<p>I make notes about pictures taken, the subjects (and where and when) so I can cross check the dates and times embedded in the photo&#8217;s metadata with the dates and times in the trip log. At the end of a long, busy trip it is hard to keep the days straight, much less the times and locations of photos that don&#8217;t have any classic identifying landmarks. My photo log keeps me from asking: &#8220;Hmmmm, was this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/?p=4082\">photo of petrified dunes<\/a> taken at Arches, Capitol Reef, or Zion?&#8221; (Zion.) And &#8220;Which turn off do I take if I want to find this location again?&#8221; (Go one mile past the east entrance, stop just past the bridge and go right.)<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes I keep track of the temperatures, and I include whatever else I might want to refer back to. For example, I chatted with photographers Gary and Tim at Inspiration Point (and took a picture of them). Tim talked about an inspiring time at the summer intensive photography program at Rocky Mountain School of Photography (RMSP). I grabbed my trip log and made some notes. When I got home I looked up the school and the prices, said &#8220;Oh my!&#8221;, and bought a few good photography books instead. Incidentally, one of the classes Tim took was was taught by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.robertglennketchum.com\/\">Robert Glenn Ketchum<\/a> who is a terrific landscape photographer.<\/p>\n<p>At the end of the trip I take pictures of all the pages in the trip log and put them with the photos from the trip. That way the photo log doesn&#8217;t get lost from the photos.<\/p>\n<p>As you can see from the bottom of the right hand page, I play the &#8220;license plate game&#8221; each year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A photo trip log is a good way to refresh your memory. 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