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**CLOSED** JANUARY 25: Photo I Almost Didn't Take/Keep

I think you can read my journaling, but if not here it is:
Oh my gosh, I have a total confession to make, I don’t get rid of photos, I literally keep them all. I admire people, like my girls, who will take a whole bunch of pics & then only keep 2 or 3 of them. I’m always like - ‘NO.... please send me all the pics before you purge them!!’ I don’t know what it is, I think I feel like it’s little pieces of life getting thrown away & I just can’t bring myself to do it. I’m a picture hoarder!

I love this challenge each MOC has something similar, I remember my first MOC had one & everyone just loved the picture I chose. This time I picked a few photos my sister took on our epic trip across Canada this past summer. I mean this girl would NOT stop taking photos out the window while I was driving, and she has a POS ancient iphone that sucks at pics, but she took so many photos & we’ve had so many hysterical laughs about the quality (or lack thereof) that honestly it was completely worth it & I wouldn’t change a thing! All these photos have actually turned out to be wonderful, fantastic memories. I’m so grateful to all the crappy photos my sister took this summer (and she took ALOT), it was one of the best road trips I’ve ever taken and the memories are priceless!! Trans-Canada-Continental-Trip OML 2025
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#25 - Bad Photos
 
Here's my layout for today's challenge. We take annual Christmas photos at our local botanical conservatory each year. Unfortunately this year the camera setting for auto focus was not on as it normally is, so most of our photos were not quite in focus, though the light and the flowers were beautiful. We went back a couple of days later to retake some of the photos but the light wasn't as good that day. I worked on the first day's photos some with my photo software, trying to sharpen the focus a bit, but they're still not the normal sharp focus we usually have in our photos. I didn't want to delete them as they are beautiful photos otherwise. It's nice to have a page where I can use the photos anyway. I think I will include a few more of them in our annual family scrapbook as well. (For those with sharp eyes, you may also notice an extraneous water bottle someone had left under the bench in the bottom photo.)

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25 Photo I Almost Didn't Take/Keep

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1/25/2026 Photo I Almost Didn't Take/Keep - MOC 13 Day 25
 
Like many others have noted I too have a lot of photos to choose from in this category. I chose this one because of my lack of technique taking selfies . Poor daughter barely made it into the frame. But it reminds me of what a wonderful help she was and all the work she did to help get the house ready to sell.
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Never thought I'd display this pic with my sweet daughter just barely getting her head in the...
 
I was thrilled to see this beautiful Northern Flicker at our feeder, and, of course, I only had my phone with me. But I took a few pictures anyway, and this was one of the better ones. It was an overcast day, and I snapped it through a screened window. I didn't 'delete' this photo because it does remind me of the time I enjoyed watching him pick away at the seeds, and him nervously keeping watch for our big, beautiful Magpies.
Almost a delete.

Almost a delete.

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I actually use poor photos all the time. It captures the moment. I've gotten good at disguising them. I tend to blend them into the background with a grainy mask and make them black and white. Or run a soft blur action on them but make the eyes crisp.

I realized I could focus the picture on my smile and show the joy of her! These photos and most of the photos from her birth/hospital are either out of focus, poor lighting or I look horrible- puffy, red eyes, bruised throat, super dirty hair, etc... I can't print her first year album because I don't have the first week of her life done. I have so much guilt/anger from that time. I'm so mad I don't have a "picture perfect" picture from her birth. And while I know and am very thankful that I lived and didn't die. The surgery to save me after she was taken by emergency c-section was difficult. It took 4 days for her to recognize my voice- the swelling and bruising from the tube- even worse in photos. oops, sorry for the vent.
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January 25: Photo I Almost Didn't Use
 
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Half of the photos were screenshots from a video of the moment, because I wanted some to scrap! They may not be the best, but they help to capture the emotion she was feeling.
 
I almost deleted this photo because the light coming in the window made everything blurry and hard to see.
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MOC 13 | Jan 25 - Photo I Almost Didn't Keep
 
Such a fun challenge Krista! Like a lot of the others I have loads of photos that I have kept that are not perfect. But then we have a challenge like this and we remember why we keep them. Because life isn't perfect, it's messy and blurry and has a "weird prisms across photos" kind of chaos .... and that makes it perfectly imperfect.
Here is my page - let me know if you need the journaling any bigger
MOC13 - Jan 25 - Photo I Almost Didn't Take/Keep

MOC13 - Jan 25 - Photo I Almost Didn't Take/Keep

 
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