My pet LOVE!

7.3k · August 18, 2007

I'm encouraging people (and myself!) to take more pictures and remember to post them in cache logs!

We need more pictures!

This is a spin off from my complaint in the "My pet hate" thread.

There aren't enough pictures in cache logs and trackable logs! Course, some caches get a lot, but there's sadly quite a few that get little or none at all. Even caches that you'd think should have pictures (beautiful views, something unusual), can surprise you. I'll look for a gallery and be surprised at the lack of photos.

Even simple caches deserve pictures. Obviously not everyone can or wants to take pictures of every cache they go to, but I wish that there were a higher rate of them. Lately, I've been going out of my way to make sure and take pictures, especially for these lonely caches that don't have any. I'm starting to try my best to take a picture of every tb and coin, as well.

I can't believe how many pictures I've taken and either forgotten or put off uploading them to cache logs. It can take too long or be tedious. But it's really worth it. People appreciate looking at the photos, and it's also great over the years, just as a photo journal for yourself and your family!

Discussions, thoughts, pictures....? Post them here. I searched and couldn't find just a general thread for pictures that people have taken and posted to cache logs over time. Post the name of the cache if you can.

There's different kinds that I thought of off the top of my head, even though some of them overlap. Natural things (flowers, plants, insects, animals), views, people, interesting things, unremarkable/normal things.

I'll start out with a few pictures in the unremarkable/normal category (for lack of a better name), just to show the ones that get posted to cache logs the least.

“Do not throw refuse” (My son Kboy)

"Quilomene Scenic View" (me, logging a cache in the dark...it's really a gorgeous view but you can't tell at night)

“seulB kraP ssenisuB” (all41 with the cache, near a IKEA store)

"Merry Christmas Navigatorz!!!" (taken with my cell phone)

(ok, not a cache really, but a cool mother's day multi to take me to my present)

7.3k · August 18, 2007

Alright I'll be honest. Four of those pictures are spoilers so I haven't decided whether I want to post them to the cache log or not. One other, like I said below it, was a hunt for Mother's Day. But I used them because they showed the types of caches that usually get overlooked in regards to pictures. I honestly was having a difficult time finding caches that were mundane because I haven't been to very many in my opinion. But at the same time, like I said before, even caches that you would think would have pictures on them get overlooked a lot.

7.3k · August 18, 2007

Just for cache_test_dummies:

“Mountain Marsh” (bear scat)

“Kalaloch” (kids got a little slug happy)

August 18, 2007

This picture is one of only two that got posted for an unfortunate travel bug, Mountaineer III. I picked it up from its origin and took it up a mountain. I then placed it in a cache. The next person picked it up and it has not been heard from in the last 2 1/2 years. I try to get any requested pictures for a TB and try to only head TBs closer to their goals.

7.3k · August 18, 2007

Oh, I hate that. I had that happen to me, I fortunately took a picture of it before it disapeared.

Oops...wrong pet peeve.

Cool that there's at least a bit of memory for the poor thing.

August 18, 2007

We always try to take pictures to share with the log, I admit though sometimes it takes me a while to get them uploaded and added to the log though. I love looking at pictures and sometimes feel like others my think i am weird cause I will share several.

7.3k · August 18, 2007

You're not weird. I think the most that I've uploaded to one log was about 60 pictures. I regularly put lots of pictures in logs.

But I have so many pictures that I've taken but not uploaded. I have over 1500 pictures in my gallery, and I'm guessing that I could probably almost double it if I caught myself up. I either forget that I haven't uploaded it, or I just get so overwhelmed that I put it off indefinitely. I'll never catch up to ODragon.

7.3k · August 18, 2007

“Wildfire”

“Mountain Marsh”

"Not Your Granny's Garden"

August 18, 2007

I've been trying to get better at this. And will start posting more. Hardest thing is to not post spoilers.

August 18, 2007

Well, I decided to post here my favorite pictures from caches & TBs I'd remember to upload pictures to before our HD crashed and we lost 90% of our pictures. My husband is a Hobbyist Photographer and takes pictures all the time. Kinda works out. I get to find a cache and he gets to take pictures. Anywho I will add the name and a few are pictures others have uploaded to my TBs.

Uploaded for my TB "If Only For the View".

looks like the TB is MIA now the last cache it was in got muggled...

Uploaded for My TB "Pilgrim's Progress"

more to come...

Edited August 18, 2007 by wandat24

August 18, 2007

These three were taken for my TB "In Memory of Jay:

*Jay made it to "Mingo" *

More to come later... Hubby just got home I'll have to do the rest later.

1.8k · August 18, 2007

I'm one of the guilty ones. I usually cache alone, often in the wee hours of the morning, and don't get many photos of those. Then too, I worry that some of my photos may be spoilers.

But I promise that I will try to change some in the future.

Will add photo to this post later.

2.3k · August 18, 2007

Here are a few of ours.

Panama City's 1st Micro

Silent Wings

Oaks by the Bay

Turkey Flight Trail

Graveyard Goodies

Between a Rock and a Hard Place

We've been guilty of not carrying the camera as much lately. Camera phone pictures just aren't the same. You can't see the neat steam vents in the background.

Favorite RBR Overlook

August 18, 2007

Okay this one Jerry took at the location of "Legend of Greenbush"

Sorry it's so big...

This one I took for a TB: "Banner's Bug"

It came out WAY better then I thought it would. I was holding the TB *as seen* in my left hand and taking the pic with my right hand. I like "Point and Shoot" cameras :unsure:

One for "Don't Bet the Farm" TB:

This place was pretty neat. We took out right after Jerry got off work (at 11pm) and was headed to Minnesota. This Casino is located pretty much in the middle of NOWHERE,USA... Or it seams... It was in the middle of the night... We may just not been able to see anything else for the fact it was dark, we could see the lights about 20 miles away.

That's all I have for now.

Edited August 18, 2007 by wandat24

August 18, 2007

I got in and found the cache, now how do I get out?

2.5k · August 18, 2007

Here are some I took along the Oregon and Washington coast from caches (or close to them).

This was taken just as I arrived at the cache site on the Washington coast.

These next two were along the Oregon coast.

This one I took while waiting for muggles to clear out at Pistol River Cache along the Oregon coast.

3k · August 18, 2007

There aren't enough pictures in cache logs and trackable logs!

You're right!

Ok, I'm going to make an effort to take and post more pictures. I used to do this on a regular basis, but I guess I got lazy. The pictures aren't only good for the cache owners and trackable owners, their good for me - I enjoy going back to my old logs and looking at the pictures.

3k · August 18, 2007

Just for cache_test_dummies:

Aww, Ambrosia - you posted pictures of bear scat and slugs just for me! How sweet! :unsure:

Thank you. The slug picture is especially nice.

2k · August 19, 2007

I definately encourage pics in logs unless they spoiler a creative hide. Other than that.......go crazy! Plus, I like seeing pics of geocachers that I've seen in a lot of the physical logs. When I see their pics I'm like "wow! thats so and so. I figured they younger" or something along those lines.

August 19, 2007

Wow, seeing these pictures really make me wish I had gotten into geocaching back when my husband was stationed at Ft. Lewis, WA! Prime caching areas :unsure:

I try to remember to take pictures, but am pretty bad about remembering to upload the pictures to the computer before I log my finds.

Armstrong Trails, Sept '06 (it was SO hot and humid)

Bryan-Richmond Hill Trail (the cricket was HUGE)

August 19, 2007

These are from Cachin' and Crabbin' this past February. My kids really enjoyed this one!

A few days later, I went out to Tybee Island to get some pics of the Tybee lighthouse for the GA Geocoin and got some caches while I was out there.

7.3k · August 19, 2007

Wow, very nice pictures everybody.

Thanks for the thoughts about log pictures. I'm glad that this thread can help encourage people to take more pictures.

I would bet there's quite a few people who take the pictures but don't load them. All those poor, missing pictures.

:unsure:

Um, I gotta go load some pictures. See ya later.

August 19, 2007

Oh, I hate that. I had that happen to me, I fortunately took a picture of it before it disapeared.

Oops...wrong pet peeve.

Cool that there's at least a bit of memory for the poor thing.

Of course I am weirder than most give me credit for

I want to thank you for making get up off my hindend and uploading some long pictures lol.

7.3k · August 19, 2007

Glad to be of service.

1.1k · August 19, 2007

I agree the need for more pictures needs to happen. So that inspired this picture that I took of some of my best friends from college out on a cache trip in the mountains.

2.5k · August 19, 2007

Wow, very nice pictures everybody.

Thanks for the thoughts about log pictures. I'm glad that this thread can help encourage people to take more pictures.

I would bet there's quite a few people who take the pictures but don't load them. All those poor, missing pictures.

Um, I gotta go load some pictures. See ya later.

I have to admit that, of the four pics I posted here, only one of them was posted to the cache log. The problem was, I took so many pictures along the coast that I forgot which cache they belonged to. I have to take better notes on my pictures.

August 19, 2007

I only have 23 finds to my name but every single one has photos :cool: It's something I make a point of doing.

GCYQRY (The Lost Condiment)

GCRGEZ (Warton Crag)

GCHTA8 (Arnside Tower)

(Pictures are all links to full size versions)

I figure that because I can't really contribute by placing caches right now (emigrating fairly soon), then interesting logs & some photos are the least I can do in a bid to give something back.

August 19, 2007

I love taking pictures, but I keep them off the cache pages. I put them in my personal travel bug log and up in my online photo galleries. Here's my photos if anyone wants to see:

Geocaching - Volume II

Geocaching - Volume I

Travel Bugs - Volume I

Photos do include spoilers.

August 19, 2007

I love taking pictures, but I keep them off the cache pages. I put them in my personal travel bug log and up in my online photo galleries. Here's my photos if anyone wants to see:

Geocaching - Volume II

Geocaching - Volume I

Travel Bugs - Volume I

Photos do include spoilers.

:cool: Now I have something to do between cleaning tomorrow. Thank You! :cool:

38.2k · August 19, 2007

Here are a few from yesterday's event in northern NJ

August 20, 2007

7.3k · August 20, 2007

There aren't enough pictures in cache logs and trackable logs!

You're right!

Ok, I'm going to make an effort to take and post more pictures. I used to do this on a regular basis, but I guess I got lazy. The pictures aren't only good for the cache owners and trackable owners, their good for me - I enjoy going back to my old logs and looking at the pictures.

Exactly! :cool:

Just for cache_test_dummies:

Aww, Ambrosia - you posted pictures of bear scat and slugs just for me! How sweet!

Thank you. The slug picture is especially nice.

That's how much I :cool: you. :cool:

1.4k · August 20, 2007

Great Pic, Skillet!!

Thanks Ambrosia for starting this thread.

From some of my cache pages.

From Pizza and 4x4 event by RocketMan last June. 250+/-pictures from this event.

Find the turkey grouse (thanks gorillagal) in the picture.

We were on our way to this cache when we spotted this.

I'm a firm believer in pictures with cache logs and on the cache pages. I have plans to do plenty more.

Edited August 20, 2007 by zoltig

9.2k · August 20, 2007

I've got my fair share of photos uploaded with my logs, but a lot of them never leave my hard drive. I don't like uploading spoilers, and I haven't built a personal website or uploaded photos to one of the online services (flickr, photobucket, etc.). So, they just sit.

One thing I'm doing lately is documenting so-called "lame" hides that take me to interesting places, or where interesting things occur. Here is an example -- a lamp post cache that isn't in a parking lot, but rather in a field of wildflowers. Since it's a spoiler I won't say where the photo was taken.

August 20, 2007

I almost always have my camera with me when caching. The only time I don't is when I forget it. As a biologist, I end up taking lots of pictures of wildlife and wildflowers. Lately, insects have been my favorite subject. I do post pictures to caches, but I admit, it's only been on a fraction of the caches I've found. As far as tb's go, I usually only post a picture when they're requested by the owner. Here's a few of my favorite cache or tb photos:

Zoltig- It's a bit fuzzy, but that last picture of yours looks more like a grouse than a turkey to me.

August 20, 2007

My biggest problem is forgetting the camera 2 times out of three!

Still, when a trip is planned properly the photos are a must. This cache, was done midwinter's day:

1.4k · August 20, 2007

Zoltig- It's a bit fuzzy, but that last picture of yours looks more like a grouse than a turkey to me.

gorillagal I think your right! Good catch!! :unsure:

When we first saw them, that was our gut reaction and never stopped to rethink it.

We saw several in different areas. I wonder how many we didn't see but they saw us. :unsure:

August 20, 2007

Wow, there are some great photos here. One of my favorite things is to go to people's profiles and look through their photo galleries. I wish people could flag their account as "I like to take photos" and have it show up next to their username (with a camera icon or something). Ambrosia and briansnat have quite a few! Anyway, thanks for sharing these.

August 20, 2007

I love to take pics along my geocaching adventures. Wish folk would take more of TBs along theirs, too.

One of my recent favorites...

August 21, 2007

GCV12P

August 21, 2007

I wish people could flag their account as "I like to take photos" and have it show up next to their username (with a camera icon or something).

What a great idea! You should suggest it in the Website Forums.

August 21, 2007

I take my camera with me every time and try to post when I get decent shots. I've had lens issues lately though. I think that my favorite lens is pooping out on me.

I have to wonder, too, if the local cachers are going to get sick of seeing pictures of my kids. It's a good thing I have 4 of them, for some variety.

I love, love, love seeing other's pictures on logs!

Here are some pics:

from today, on the bank of the Chesapeake BayGC3056

taken on a different day, but same area

Mouse Hunter TB TBKANJ

Lime Kiln GCGX8W (funny logs if you have time to read)

Snake skins GCYMA6

Sunflower GC12HBY

Edited August 21, 2007 by elephantmama

August 21, 2007

Dudley Grunt, which bridge is that? It's a gorgeous picture!

August 21, 2007

needed a new book mark...

2.3k · August 22, 2007

Whew! With a thread title like 'My pet LOVE' this coulda went in a whole 'nother direction... :laughing:

Glad to see it didn't. :laughing:

Nice pics everyone.

August 22, 2007

Just to see if I can make it work sharing some that aren't upload at logs as they may be spoilers....

August 22, 2007

I've been trying to make an effort to plost more pitcures to cache logs myself. Especially as most cache logs have tended toward simple found it notes more than anything. I've been especially into doing the same for TBs. They're supposed to gather stories along the way, right? But most I've moved usually have little more than a series of brief notes about finding.dropping them and little else.

August 22, 2007

Sometimes you just see amazing things while logging a DNF. Like the day we had to move the cachemobile to allow an airplane by on the road.

Or, the cache site is just so amazing, you have to take a pic and post it to entice visitors to the area.

3k · September 4, 2007

So I headed out for some geocaching today specifically with this topic in mind. Got to the first cache, reached for the camera to take some pictures, and the batteries that I thought I had charged were dead.

Too bad, because later on I found a cache near a really interesting quarry. I would have loved to take some pictures. Next time, I'll try to be more prepared when heading out.

September 4, 2007

Great pics everyone. I always love to see everyone else's pics. I try to take a shot when I see a good one. Here's a few recent favs:

My boy right after my 100th find today - River Rocks

Long Path Trailhead

GWB

Water Lilly

Miko the Geodog

My pet LOVE!

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