what would your final photo be? video here...

I watched, it is a good question. But I can't think/decide on what my last one would be. Then again I'm sure there will be a last one.
 
Yes, a most interesting video. Vastly different from the usual hyper-hypster-hyped badly produced productions that site is renowned (= notorious?) for.

Watching it brought up greatly different thoughts in myself and my partner. In my case, I am still photographing, not every day but regularly, and I have a large collection of camera gear and many tens of thousands of images nobody will likely want or claim after I 'shuffle' off. What to do with all this has been in my mind for some years.

A few image collections I have 'curated' at home can go to educational institutions and (maybe) the Australian Archives IF this agency can ever get its cumbersome bureaucracy together to deal with the backlog of given items they already have, so far uncatalogued, including 500 historically interesting Kodachromes I gave them in 2010, to date unacknowledged. So yes, I'm pessimistic.

As usual I have drifted away from the original topic. Assuming when my final days come I will have had time to do some planning, I would probably do the following -

Find someone to give my cameras and lenses to. With conditions, but then I will be fishing in the dark here, as after I'm gone, whoever gets my gear can do as they want with it. So yes, ha ha ha.

Ditto with my image collections. A dumpster may 'inherit' the bulk of these, my travel shots from 1970 to date. Beyond this, I have said enough already and I will spare you all more comments.

Other than to say...

We have no children and we are both cat lovers. This year I've been plodding in the gloom a bit to deal with several thousand images of my/our cats from 1976 to now. These mean nothing to anyone other than me/us, and even then I'm now finding it rather a chore to recall my time with the several felines I had in Sydney pre-1985, our 20+ years in Melbourne and our few years in Tasmania. The best solution I have for this lot of images is to cull brutally, scan the best and dispose of all except those I want to print and put into a memories album. I accept that this book along with the surviving imagery, will eventually go into a dumpster and end up as landfill. Which annoys me, but then real-world living is often annoying.

Enough said of my, I realise, rather morbid thoughts.

All said, what my final photo will be, is as yet undecided. I will wake up and get out of bed (if I can) on the day, and depending on my physical condition, how I am feeling and whether or not I'm at home and ambulatory or hooked up to medical equipment, will determine what photos I take. So like so much else in my life, it will depend.

Bu if my life history goes on repeating itself - most likely of the cats.

PS -

Think too much and you can miss shots.

Do not think and shoot: a good idea, I agree !

By far the best responses here. Of many. I could not agree more. (Apologies to all for this double negative sentence!!)
 
As my time relentlessly approaches, I have not given much thought to my last photo. I have however been working on my last joke. It goes something like this. ´Why did the chicken cross the road?...´ And with that I will bow out.
 
Ideally, I will be very old, tired, weak, laying propped up in the shade against a tree in the African savanna. Big cats will surround me - cats and I love each other - and they will come close to comfort me, not attack. My final photo will be a group photo of the cats near me.

When Polaroid film was becoming scarce and very expensive, and Impossible hadn’t existed yet, I made what I thought were my last photos with my SX-70 and my Image 1200 (Spectra). Impossible/Polaroid brought use of these cameras back to life - though now Impossible/Polaroid seems no longer to make the Spectra sized film. Also, pack film is gone and I have only 18 packs in B&W and color - so one day I’ll have to make my last photos with my pack film cameras.

It’s funny I can still buy Double 8mm film for the ciné camera I bought in 1964 as a kid.

Not long ago I was wondering what the very last photo was that each great photographer made.
 
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The angel of death, if I have the strength and enough time. I’m not sure it will wait when I say “how ‘bout one more with the flash?”
 
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