what's that thing where you forget stuff?

funny how the simplest thing can make a post and that question, asked by miss caitlin, was a great example. i think she was looking for the word amnesia. thanks for your comments and one day i'll tell you a forgetting story of my own.......

some time back i posted a picture of a tree visible from our backyard and i wondered about taking a series. it didn't turn out as well as i hoped but i'll post them just the same. the tree is gone now so it's a teeny slice of history. at the time i only wanted to shoot the tree but now it's gone i think how a broader perspective might have been nice. not because there is anything inherently fascinating about the backyard but because we could have looked at it and said "oh, look at that, i forgot that tree used to be there"

i read something about that once, someone was saying that with digital photography we tend to edit the life out of our photos in search of a perfect shot and that it makes for some technically good looking pictures but that after the passage of time it is the odd random things that sneak into photos (and have now been edited out) that gives them interest.