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I am, in general, a bit disappointed with my photos of this trip. Initially I was thinking that I didn't even take some that I should have. I composed, etc, some of the ones I took badly. And also there were technical issues with exposure and color balance with many. Oh well.
So it was unwelcome salt in my wounds to discover that somehow at least one block of photos that I did take! I know I took them!...
I was using two "cameras"... a good "proper" camera and my smartphone.
For the proper camera, the date/time stamp on photo 385 says it was taken November 3rd, 18:31, Delhi time. The next photo on the memory card was 386, taken November 6th 13:27 Delhi time... Waaa!!!....
The photos of two and a half days LOST.
Ah well. At least I have some photos taken on my smartphone during that interval.
I know that I lost photos in that interval. I suspect that there are some other gaps- I'm sure I took a photo of the man who sold me the little padlock...during our night-time stroll in the Jaipur market, I think. I'm near certain that is not in either set of photos that I do have. And as time goes by, I am noticing other gaps. Sigh.
There were several photos I was particularly sad to lose... but I'd "lost" the most important of them of them already, explained below, which softened the blow losing that would have been.
We visited the Jama Masjid, the huge mosque in Old Delhi.
The vast courtyard is surrounded by "walls" which consist of beautiful pillars interspersed with open arches. And usually the open space is "closed" by a delicate metal grill of diagonal slats. The grill is probably 10 or 12 feet high. (The photo isn't mine, by the way.)
I saw two very scrawny street kids... 10 and 8?... scrambling up one of these grills. No one was at all bothered, and they were having fun.
(The life of a street kid isn't "fun"... I get that. But some of them manage to have a lot of fun along the way, even so.)
It was a fantastic picture... the "stick insect" anatomy of the kids, and the delicate metal grill work, the massive stone pillars, the obvious delight they were having all came together in a wonderful image.
And somehow my camera settings were wrong when I photographed the kids climbing on the grill. By the time I realized, they'd come down again; the the moment had passed.
The photo was so amazing, I might have broken my usual rule of not showing people photos which aren't at least adequate in technical terms.
But somehow I lost (see above) even the blurry version of the moment.
Oh well.
I know that I saw the blurry images of the kids on the back of one or the other of my cameras. ("Proper" camera and smartphone's.) So at one point they were in that device's storage. And they are NOT in what I've harvested.
Since the initial devastating discovery, a few other examples have turned up of times I know I took a picture... a picture I cannot now find.
There was the photo of the man who sold me the padlock. I'm pretty sure that was in our night-time walkabout as a group in the heart of Jaipur. (Probably 6 Nov 23, about 17:40 (local). (That from date/timestamp on a smartphone photo.)
Another instance was the photos taken at the Blue Pottery workshop. I have some, but I know there were more... annoyingly including the one identifying WHICH workshop we visited. And the samples of their products. This would have been around 20231108-1113.
I can't believe that I took NO pictures with my "proper" camera from November 3rd, 18:31 Delhi time to November 6th 13:27.. so that camera... or memory cards in general, will worry me forevermore.
There is a small chance that I accidentally deleted blocks of images when trying to delete a single image which wasn't worth keeping.
Quite often, when I think I've taken a photo with my smartphone, it turns out that I haven't. But I am well aware of this, and I hope I always check, when a photo is important.
At the start of the trip, I had a tablet computer with me. And a thumb-drive. The tablet died. I haven't tried the thumb-drive yet. Maybe in a fit of madness or by mistake, in a session of trying to copy things from their primary storage location I accidentally moved them. This MIGHT explain the big gap in the photos on my proper camera, the gap in the early days of the trip. (But I doubt it. If I used "move", to create the backup, it would be something I've never done intentionally.)
And of course, there is a chance... a small chance, in some cases... that the missing pictures aren't missing at all. It may be that I've simply overlooked them when searching.
Fingers crossed.
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