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One can always tell a nature photograher who needs to be out in the field more when they look through their old un-developed images and find a nice shot.  Charlie Cramer (http://www.charlescramer.com/) told me during his Advanced Digital Printing workshop that sometimes it is best not  to develop your images soon after a shoot because you are too “emotionally attached” to them.  Also, an un-developed image may not look like what you saw in the field so you pass it over.   When you go back a few weeks later you say, “Hey, that image looks pretty good…” Well I never follow Charlie’s advice on this.  In fact, I can’t wait to buy the Epson® P-5000 photo viewer so I can look at my images before I go home from a shoot.  Regardless, the message is that it may be well worthwhile to go back through your old photos (on a rainy Sunday afternoon) to see if there is a “winner” hiding somewhere in your files. 

I took the photograph to the right in 2004 and for some reason decided not to develop it until recently.