Of course we don't ... at least not in any of our own pictures. Maybe in someone else's ... OK ... look for the gremlin in this image. I used a tripod, 120 film, medium format camera, 150mm lens, polarizing filter and bracketed by plus/minus 1.5 EV. The lab used normal developing, provided a contact sheet of thumbnails and scanned each image to an 18MBy TIFF. I used Photoshop 7.0 to resize this to 768 wide and a thumbnail 144 wide. Comments please. MGD

I can't find it.....

I am, therefore I create.......
--- michelleamarante.com

A crumpled paper cup... a tree fungus...

crumpled paper cup Yep ... that's it. And I swear that it wasn't there when I released the shutter!!! > tree fungus At the lower left edge? Even it it's natural, it should not have been cut off that way. I'll look at it on my way to breakfast. MGD

none too nice of the gremlin to leave trash in your shot :(

Well there is the cup in the lower rh corner... But what is that I see lurking in the lower left corner? Another paper cup maybe?

@Cynlee - > none too nice of the gremlin to leave trash in your shot :( Yes The way I was using the word, the trash was the gremlin. ... I attended a nature photography workshop in 1986 given by Vici Zaremba + Steve Diehl. If anything unexpected appeared in an image, Steve called it a gremlin. His example was a near the ground shot with a little extra ... a small golden oval with the word "Passed". MGD

@Nilla - > lower left corner? Another paper cup maybe? Yes. On my way to breakfast, I double checked the setting and found lots of things that I ignored on the previous visit -- things that I don't want to see or show in my pictures -- not even touch to eliminate as I don't want to get black ooook on my camera. I'll use gardening gloves or work gloves in addition to garbage bag. MGD

This afternoon, I returned to the area I used for the image in this thread -- it's also where my first two no-postwork challenge entries were shot. I took out about 15 to 20 pounds of trash. The area used to be a girl scout camp ... but that does not explain the old, crushed, faded, Budweiser cans. ... Or the four old, broken, white, plastic lawn chairs. Please don't get me wrong ... this was not all that bad, just that a careful cleanup took out lots of nasty in the areas that I will use later for emulsion comparisons. Tedz documented a bigger mess. MGD P.S. ... I learned that looking for trash is quite similar to looking for gremlins before releasing the shutter. You also have to walk out and then backtrack to see it all.

Kind of makes you wonder whatever happened to the old saying "Leave nothing but your footprints"? How hard is it to take your trash with you? Just wanted to tell you MGD that all hope is not lost, my boys pick up trash for community service hours with the Boy Scouts. In a recent "Trash Bash" the troop collected over 3,000 pounds of trash in out little town here. :(

@Nilla - > my boys pick up trash for community service hours That is good service ... thanks. MGD