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" Do any of you guys and girls ever suffer the disappointment of having visited a location - taken many images and then thinking on viewing them later on the computer that you really didn't capture what you saw. "

One of the fundamental things to understand about photography is that you can never quite capture what you see... Once you made that switch in your head, it's much easier to get over that disappointment. If you only want to capture what you see, a photograph will never be more than the next best thing... but not the real thing. On a sidenote: I can't see any great reward or satisfaction in just capturing what you see...

Maybe the keyword is 'SEE'... Try to capture what you feel, what you sense, what you hear or smell, instead of what you see. Sensitivity for the subject is of great importance (not to be confused with 'mood'). A person will be more sensitive to a given subject and less sensitive to another subject... but that sensitivity is something that can be trained. Capture the image from within you, let your senses dictate how it should look like, find the essence of what you want to show... and the image can be as you 'saw' or envisioned it... with an added value, even better than the real thing.

We do not see things as they are. ǝɹɐ ǝʍ sɐ sƃuıɥʇ ǝǝs ǝʍ