Photograph tally
As you all know, we took along a digital camera (Sony Mavica FD91) on the Odyssey, recording many things we encountered as we meandered across 15 countries. A few of you have expressed interest in seeing the pictures since we got back, but until now, we really did not know what to do about it, since they are :
(a) so numerous
(b) digital images, not prints
I have finally sorted them out now, after literally hours of slaving over a hot computer and the tally of images would appear to be 2,418 - an average of 9.6 photos per day. My pre-Odyssey estimated average of 8 photos per day based on previous travels was a little inaccurate in the long-run, as it turned out. It appears that having a digital camera makes me 25% more snap-happy.
For those of you who love to see the statistics, here’s a brief rundown of the number of images in each country, in order of our travels.
- Brazil - 108
- USA - 1,459
- Mexico - 3
- Canada - 67
- Spain - 154
- Italy - 62
- England - 187
- Scotland - 26
- Wales - 14
- France - 81
- Hong Kong - 65
- Thailand - 122
- Singapore - 21
- Australia - 47
Naturally, there are some things to take into account here. One is that some places have very few photos due to safety concerns. I really did not feel like pulling my camera out on the streets of Mexico when we went there for the afternoon. On the other hand, the beauty of Rottnest Island, offshore from Perth, Australia was able to be captured because there is no street crime there.
Another factor is the sort of activity we were doing. In Singapore, for example, the main thing we did was to go to a night safari. This was not suited to photography at all, since flash photography scares the animals, and digital cameras do not cope well with poor light. The other major thing we did was to go to the Battle Box - a place where you are forbidden to take pictures so they can sell postcards with the images on them. Reasons like that caused a decrease in photography.
For those of you still interested in seeing photos that never made it to the website as we updated, and have not yet been intimidated by these figures, we’ll see what we can do.