bucket list?

back alley said:
anyone have a photo bucket list?
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Can you elaborate?

Photos I want to take/see/own?
Places/people/things I want to photograph?
Photography equipment I want to use/see/own?

Short answer, yes. Long answer depends on answers to the above :)
 
I have very long list of photography projects that I have either started or plan on starting at some point - that's my only real photography bucket list.
 
No. The whole concept of "bucket lists" is dangerous and unpleasant, leading to perpetual dissatisfaction with one's life as it actually is. There's a wise saying: "Do not regret what you have lost, but remember with affection what you have had." The whole idea of a "bucket list" is the exact opposite of this mentality.

Of course there are things I would like to do. Some I may achieve. Others I will not. It doesn't matter very much.

Are you familiar with the concept of "hungry ghosts"? If not, see http://buddhism.about.com/od/tibetandeities/ig/Wheel-of-Life-Gallery/Hungry-Ghosts-Realm.htm

Cheers,

R.
 
Dogman said:
I'd rather just wander aimlessly and muddle through the serendipity.
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YES!

Many of the best places I have ever been, I have found by chance. I also find it useful not to try to fit in too much (= try to go to too many places). Often, it takes a while to discover the best in a place.

Cheers,

R.
 
I concur , and in 2 months my wife and I (along with 2 friends) are going to Thailand and
Cambodia for 5 weeks and we've planned on a sum total of 2 places ! The rest as they say, is which ever way the wind blows us . Yahoo for retirement .
Peter
 
Can you elaborate?

Photos I want to take/see/own?
Places/people/things I want to photograph?
Photography equipment I want to use/see/own?

yes...
 
jsrockit said:
I just use the first part of that saying... forget what you have lost. It's gone.
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No, you still have the memories. Am I likely ever to make another major motorcycle tour of India again? No. Do I prize the memory? Yes. Likewise the birthdays I have spent with my daughter. They're gone, but the memories are not. Or my first serious girlfriend, or the first time I rode a motorcycle at 100 mph, or audiences with HH Dalai Lama.... The list goes on and on and on.

Cheers,

R.
 
I'm a little confused by your response Roger. Maybe you and I see the "bucket list" as two different things. For me, my "bucket list" is just the list of things I want to do sometime in my lifetime. I've been very fortunate to have had the opportunity to do most of them. It's not some rigid thing that I militarily plod through step by step. It's just experiences I think might be interesting, and given the opportunity, I take advantage of it.
 
Dogman said:
I'd rather just wander aimlessly and muddle through the serendipity.
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That sums it up rather nicely.

There are many things I have wanted to do in my lifetime that I will never get to do, there are a few things I have wanted to do (and more continuing to appear) that I might do yet, but there are a HUGE lot of things I wanted to do that I have in my own aimless way managed to achieve.

I accept all of these things with no regrets, I've enjoyed everything I achieved and given short grief to those which passed by undone. I'll just keep on going this way until Life departs me. :)

G
 
back alley said:
anyone have a photo bucket list?
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No, not me.

The certain route towards disappointment, imho.

Option1: I don't get to fulfil it. Big disappointment.
Option2: I do get to fulfil it and the images suck. Big disappointment.
Option3: I do get to fulfil it and the images are great. And then what?

There's just no winning.
 
I don't really have a bucket list, although there things I would like to do or do again. But to me a bucket list implies a directive. I know there are some things I will never do again, or at least the same way.

Mostly I just want the opportunity to take more film photos and turn them into great prints.

I would like to travel around Korea to some of the old temples and historical sites. If they aren't too touristy.

There are places in the USA south-west I would love to visit again, like the Grand Canyon, or Yellowstone. Mesa Verde and the cliff dwellings there were awesome.

How about you Joe?
 
jsrockit said:
Ah, I was thinking of negative memories.
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Even there, I disagree. It might be different for others, but with sufficient time, even most of my negative experiences/losses/memories end up as positives. Often they become good stories, or at the least make me feel more resilient (e.g. "Sick as I feel today, it's nothing like that time I good food poisoning from a dodgy kebab..."). I'm sure it would be different if something truly terrible happened to me, but for the most part even my negative memories I want to keep as my own.
 
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