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Post by trappnman on Jun 10, 2008 8:33:16 GMT -6
A recent thread got me thinking- how many of you took trapline pics, beyond the odd one or two, before the internet?
Growing up, of course, cameras were quite different than they are now (and no, it wasn't in the glass plate age....). My Dad had a 35mm, and he took pics for slides. But oddly, he never took any trapping pics. Pictures were for family events, a nice buck, a big fish.
The first trapping picture he ever took, was of me and my very first beagle and my very first red fox. A little story about that. I had 8-10 land sets out, mainly for skunks and coon. Dad came with me to check the traps, and we check them all without nothing- last set was gone, wood drag. We looked for about 10 minutes, and couldn't find it. Dad told me he had no choice, but had to leave, but if I couldn't find the trap, he's help me look later that day. He left, and I did the old trick of going in circles wider and wider from the source. after about 20 minutes- I found the trap and a red! I can still remember it, remember wishing Dad was there, remember being so excited I ran home with that fox.
Still got that pic, with Dads words..."Stevies' first Red" wrote on it.... my one wish, is that Dad could have been alive to trap yotes with me...
Back to pics- saw my first trapping pics outside a magazine at my first convention, the FTA, and actually, saw them at a table set up by Possum Bob. Commented on them, and he was first that told me, take some pictures.
So I do...
Too many sometimes-
Water are hard pics to take- not counting the risk of camera. If I want pics, then, I'll wait til loris along and let her be camera girl.
But coyotes- Zag got me hooked on taking pictures of them (hey Zags- you mentioned how do I gain time without extra expense- I just need to stop taking pics!).
Its like an addiction- if I forget my camera, I ALMOST hope for a poor day... isn't that sick!
But I'm hooked- its a compulsion now to take canine pics in the trap.
I remember my sisters wanting to show me their pics- they'd have 3-4 rolls- and it would all be horse pics. They would get mad if I didn't look at them, but I'd say- they are all HORSES. I can look out the window right now- and then, (I was a brat, I know) I yell, "hey, horses- get the camera- they are so cute!!!"
So...who's hooked and whos like my dad?
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Post by foxtail on Jun 10, 2008 8:37:45 GMT -6
I take lots of pics and I can say that when I go through the pics from past years, I can usually remember that set and the circumstances.
Almost all of last years pics were lost to a crash a couple of months ago due to the fact that the pics were not backed up like I thought they were.
Fortunately my deer hunting pics were backed up though.
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Post by Stef on Jun 10, 2008 8:42:25 GMT -6
I'm hooked. If I had all the time I would like to have... I would love to hunt with a camera...enough said
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Post by redeagle on Jun 10, 2008 8:51:41 GMT -6
I took a few pics with my cell phone this past season because I didn't have a camera with me on the line. I don't normally carry a camera because it is just one more thing to pack, and I do a lot of hoofing it on foot at each stop.
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Post by lumberjack on Jun 10, 2008 9:05:41 GMT -6
I, like Bob Wendt, have shoeboxes full of photos. In my younger days I took alot but dont carry a camera anymore. Ive had too many people say-every picture your in is either with dead animals (trapping) or dead trees (back in my timber felling days). I thought about and cant account for any pictures of me with a woman, women or even with my daughter, flowers, birds, skies, scenery, etc-just dead animals and trees. I felt bad about it and quit taking pics..
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Post by tonymalone on Jun 10, 2008 9:45:46 GMT -6
never really thought to much about takeing pics. till i was exposed to internet a few years ago. guess in them days was to busy liveing for the moment. now i'm older, fatter, and slower, i think about it more. looking back, sure wish i had some pics. of stuff i did, caught and killed. got a nice camera last year, just not good at photography,and not good at reading direction books, so my cam. is set up to where, see what ya want "click" and 2 or 3 sec. later after pose is gone "flash" dangit
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Post by bobwendt on Jun 10, 2008 10:15:55 GMT -6
quit taking pictures at least trapping pics. wasn`t anything left. to photo six fox in a row, sure how many pics yuo want to see, 5 feet apart, 6 of them, 100 pics? 200 pics ok, I have them. 35 a dfay, ya all that stuf too . beavers, yup, whatever. so I just quit. sometimes a pretty sunrise or sunset or flowers. camera in the truck, just never use it anymore ,at least not for trapping pics. plenty barn pics. it embarasses me now to look back at that stuff. maybe not embarass, but the pics were for others, not me . I know I did that stuff, no need to take pics to show others. we all go thru that phase I think.
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Post by Gibb on Jun 10, 2008 10:38:23 GMT -6
I take a lot of pictures but find that with digtal camera I stopped printing then. I alway found that an album full of pictures was a great way to get people talking. I have a least three album of pictures from my old 35 mm but none from the hundreds of digtal ones. The older I get the more I cherish the old pictures. My kids may never get the same chances to harvest things that I took for granted. Cheers Jim
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Post by TurTLe on Jun 10, 2008 11:01:15 GMT -6
I actually take less pictures now, then I did before the internet. Probably has a lot to do with the fact that I trap a lot harder then I used to. Just don't have time, trying to longline, put up my own fur, and go to school full time.
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Post by 17HMR on Jun 10, 2008 11:05:03 GMT -6
I have always took some pics, but now with the digtal I take lots, I have no way to look at them at home so I go to the photo dept at wally world and use their system to get them printed. I get 2 of some and staple them on the wall in fur shed, I like to look at them anytime I getting ready for the season.
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Post by Stef on Jun 10, 2008 11:17:14 GMT -6
Time...LoL
My camera is always under my coat around my neck... When I've a catch, the time I'm out of the truck or the ATV etc... the camera is out.. Take 1-2 shots and I'm on my way for the remake.
i don't take picture of all the things I do catch but why not losing 10 minutes per day taking pictures?
just take pictures of the live ones..LoL
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Post by youngandtalented on Jun 10, 2008 11:31:12 GMT -6
i usually don't carry a camera with me on the line but whenever i do get something there is almost always a picture taken when i get home, usually with my younger brothers holding a big beaver (or trying to) or my dad a I after we get something that don't usually get just due to teh moment sort of thing. i love going to my grandparents house because my grandfather used to trap, along with my uncle and they have tons of pictures from back in the day, of traping, hunting and fishing, and i surely know i love seeing them.
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Post by garman on Jun 10, 2008 11:41:12 GMT -6
I like taking pictures, someday they can be handed down and/or looked at. I just love our digital camera, and love to see others pics especially those of days past.
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Post by bill1306 (Phil) on Jun 10, 2008 11:48:42 GMT -6
I used to take more pictures than I do now. Now I don't take enough pictures and when the gas prices get so high that none of us can afford to trap, I know that I will enjoy looking at the pictures more. I only wish that I would have taken a picture of a gas pump when it read 19.9 cents/gal. lol A good picture does bring back a lot of memory's of the line. I do like taking cat pictures and pictures of strange things like three skunks in a live trap, quilled rats or the old hard shell possum. Now there isn't the excuses not to take pictures with the digital cameras, no film or developing expense and if it doesn't turn out right, just delete.
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Post by Wright Brothers on Jun 10, 2008 11:50:36 GMT -6
I never owned a camera until the digital. Shared some of what I thought were the better pics, and some to show how too stuff. Got accused of being an anti, had someone come up to me and name one of my permisions that had been stolen from, and a couple other things that don't sit well. Then image station closed, and that about did it for me. I still take some but don't have the faintest idea how to print them. In hind sight, 35 mm woulda been better I think.
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Post by Zagman on Jun 10, 2008 12:11:51 GMT -6
I used to take just classic caught-coyote pics. Then, with the internet and ALL the various subjects that come up over the course of the year, I started SEEING things on the line that I thought would show well and/or support thoughts theories that I had or to dispell some that others had.
Started with toe catches, paw catches, double paw catches etc.
Right or wrong, justly or not, taking and sharing pictures does tend to give one credibility. I know, I know.....just an opinion.
Me, for instance. I am a part time internet trapper who has not trapped one 100th of what a lot of other guys have......yet, due to the internet and some nice pics, I have become known outside of my own backyard as a "good" (relative term) coyote trapper.
Right or wrong, I think a lot of reason for that "credibility" has been my ability to SHOW pics of most things of which I speak.
Double paw pics? Got em. Toe catches...got em. Peg legged coyote pics. Got em. Misses in the snow. Lots of them! Elbow catches. Doubles. Triples. Big days. Slow days. Zero days. Barn pics.... gay dog pics. Just the other day, pics of coyotes in traps with tracks of others all around them chewing on them....the list goes on and on.
Need a super duper zoom lense to show the miniscule little hairs I find in some traps and simply cannot identify.....perhaps you guys could help.
Get my drift? So, to the question, while I have always taken pictures, the type I know take are quite different.
This past year, probably took far less pictures than normal. One thing I cut out was pics in the dark, UNLESS it was an unusual animal or something. They just dont come out that great.
Zagman
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Post by Billy Y on Jun 10, 2008 12:18:41 GMT -6
Well I wish that I had taken more pics this last season than I did. Especially now that my son is along alot for the ride. When I trapped as a kid the thought never crossed my mind to take a pic - not that I even owned a camera.
I keep forgetting to take a pic or most the time even to bring the camera. I'm trying hard though to make it more a habit. Pics are most valuable years later - when you can reminise and remember stuff that you wouldn't have rememberd otherwise without that visual cue. You jaded, more experienced guys should take trapping pics for the same reason that you take pics of friends and family. When you are too old to run a line you can look at those pics and remember.
The internet played a big part of getting me into trapping again, not to mention providing a venue for sharing pics. When I first found trapperman I was actually looking for a trapper's supply on line that I could order traps from to deal with some skunks I had bothering my hives. I started reading that forum obsessively and before I knew it I had the fur bug again.
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Post by CoonDuke on Jun 10, 2008 12:50:18 GMT -6
I take a lot less night-checking pics as well. Half the time I cannot even tell the location from the pic. I just have enough pictures of a red fox standing in a hay field surrounded by darkness...LOL.
Last season I was blessed with the best weather for photography on my "vacation week."
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Post by trappnman on Jun 10, 2008 14:55:00 GMT -6
wright brothers- go to photobucket- or shutterfly- I find shutterfly easier to work with when choosing and ordering pics, and photobucket better for internet stuff- little more work to order a quantity of pics I thought. just ordered mine (if you want to count my coyotes come look at em at FTA) at a cost of $.15 cents at shutterfly, a couple of pennies more at photobucket.
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Post by Stanley on Jun 10, 2008 15:06:31 GMT -6
I've always took a bunch of pic's. 35mm ,take to the store, wait a few days. Growing up , we took pic's, but took forever and a day to get them developed. Now with the digital camera's & videocams. Plus home pc's, pic taking is at a whole new level. Take a few pic's, down load, then up-load to photobucket. Your ready to post. If I want a picture on photo paper. I take my SD card or CD, to Walmart and do it there. I don't go hunting, trapping ,fishing or vacations without the camera. It's top on the list, and extra batteries.
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