Portage gone wrong.   

I'd rather meet a moose in rut.  You take more selfies in the bush than anyone I know.

I can SO identify with that!  For many years on our trips I had the only camera, and after each trip I made a photo album.  Lots and lots of pictures.  And when we would share our album with family and/or friends, they would say, "Was Neil the only one on this trip?  I don't see a single photo of you, Lynda?"  Finally, I used to request that my husband take the camera and at least take one or two snaps of me, just to prove that I was actually there.  Back in those days, it wasn't practical to do a "selfie" like it is now.  The equipment just wouldn't focus at arm's length.

Sometimes we would set the camera up on a tree stump to get a photo of the two us out in the "wilderness", and put the setting on timer.  It would beep and I would run to get into the picture.  Those were the days!     (Photo is taken at campsite on Basswood Lake, 1985.)

Well, obviously, in 1985 those photos were a crop shoot, too.  As I remember, we shot about 5 of them, and once the film was developed I just kept the one I liked best.  I did a lot of that back in those days.  I would get my photos from the developer and immediately go through and throw out about 2/3 to 3/4 of them, just keeping the ones that were in focus or the best exposed ones.  Took many, many rolls of 36 exposures on the later trips after I got interested in photography, and threw out probably a few thousand prints.

Digital is so different.  I got my first digital camera in 2003.  Took a few slides on that 2003 trip, and haven't taken a photo with film since.

I just got a new Nikon waterproof camera this year.  I let the grandchildren use my old Panasonic W3000 on our Stingray Adventure in the Caribbean last December and forgot to tell them that it had a limit to 30 minutes underwater.  It was ruined.  Fortunately the card was fine, and they got some really nice stingray photos!  When I went to replace it, the new model wasn't out yet, so I went with the Nikon CoolPix instead.  I like it so far.  A nice little pocket camera and it does pretty well underwater for what we like to do.