bucket list?

[danielsterno]

i would rather photograph a bucket:

 

[back alley]

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?

i have never been much of a planner...certainly not more than short term.
i'm not sure what triggered this question...i know that i am not capable of physically doing many of the things that i did in my youth or even middle age and i really wish i had done more in my prime...but then i look back and i have done a fair bit...motorcycle trips, a few marriages, lots of driving cross country...a nefarious adventure or 2...
as to photography...i started out seriously doing mountain and prairie landscapes, ski shoots, lots of music related shooting...even weddings!
now i look at something to shoot and lose the ambition to even take the camera out of the bag...i hope this a temporary funk but i seem to get into them more and more.
i am 99% happy with my gear and have begun to realize that i don't really need much more and the gear i covet is to satisfy a need to return to my past...thus the canon f1...

 

[Roger Hicks]

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.

We must do. There's a huge number of things I'd quite like to do, but formalizing them into a "bucket list", or even assigning priorities to them, is utterly alien to me. There's also a lot of truth in what johannielscom said, though I'd not be quite as negative about it.

Cheers,

R.

 

[Addy101]

Before I went to Burma (Myanmar) there was one picture I was impressed by - and I wanted to take a similar picture. I did:

Sony A900 | Minolta 85G | f/2 | 1/250s | 100iso

This was the only time I had a bucketlist, never before or after I felt the need to take a specific picture. In fact it felt a bit weird, I wanted to take this picture before I went, didn't really look for it, but came across it.

 

[nongfuspring]

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.

I very much agree. I really dislike the idea of bucket lists, something about them implies putting the cart before the horse, or accomplishment before experience.

 

[Hogarth Ferguson]

I also refuse to start a bucket list, I do the things that I want because tomorrow is promised to no one.

Blueprints for the future are a fools errand.

 

[Roger Hicks]

I also refuse to start a bucket list, I do the things that I want because tomorrow is promised to no one.

Blueprints for the future are a fools errand.

As in, "If you want to make God laugh, tell Her your plans."

Cheers,

R.