After our adventure to Hawaii, American Samoa and Independent Samoa I decided to have a look at what we did photographically on the journey. I carted along four cameras and Ginny brought three. Some time ago I bought a Canon SX70 because I wanted to have a light telephoto to bring along. It wasn't evident to me whether or not I would use the thing. It turns out that I didn't even take it out of the backpack. Just never had a place where a telephoto would be good. My friend Gordon uses his Nikon P1000 quite a bit, but he does lots of nature photography where it has its obvious advantages.

One of the great things about Lightroom is the database system. I used it today to analyze our photography efforts during the trip. Here's how many photos we took:

Ginny: Olympus TG-6 281; Powershot G5X 697; iPhone 669; Total 1647
John: Olympus TG-6 122; Powershot G5X MkII 99; iPhone 773; Total 994
Total 2641

That is a lot of pictures, but you never know which ones you want. I want to avoid wishing I had taken some of various things. Of course you end up with some that aren't very good. That is why God invented the "remove photo" menu option in Lightroom.

One important thing I learned is that synchronizing time settings is very important. It only takes a few seconds to properly set the time in the camera and that saves you lots of time later. I use my iPhone for the time standard. Photography is a learning experience for sure

Today's photo is of the cameras I brought with me on the Samoa trip.