Pigeon Point Lighthouse
Yesterday I witnessed a wonderful Sunset at Pigeon Point (close to home).
I was cruising around having a nice Saturday and came by the lighthouse at around sunset, so I decided to wait. I have photographed the lighthouse before, but I still need to upload those images.

So here I am, having written this article about Photo Mistakes telling people that it is one of the greatest blunders to delete images in the field when I did it myself and lost a really good one in the process.
When I am watching sunsets, I am always hoping for some seagulls to pass by. Yesterday I was passed by a seagull in close range and I already had my long lens on, so I kept tracking the bird and taking photos along its path, hoping for it to fly by in front of the sun (he actually did and I had a perfect photo of a silhouette against a huge sun disc).
Nice, but what to do with the other images of the series. Well, my compact flash wasn't nearly full, so I shouldn't have bothered.
I scrolled through the images deleting one by one and as it so happens, the hand is faster than the eye ....
Sometimes Digital Photography can be a curse as well. Generally I consider it a blessing, being able to take so many images and verify the results so easily, but the delete button is so damn easy to use.
I guess I will tape mine off for a while, until I have learned to keep my fingers off this useless button.
Seriously though, with a large compact flash and an image tank in my backpack I won't need this button. It does more harm than good will ever come from it.
So why am I always drawn again to this magical button? It's not like someone is going to review my pictures right there. I get to sort them out all by myself, and yet I cannot stand knowing that there are a bunch of "not so good" images stored on my memory card.
At least Pigeon Point Lighthouse came out pretty nice. This time I didn't bother asking the stoned caretaker to close up a little later. I found an even better spot outside.