Lost In The Desert

This image does not fit into the scheme of images I plan to post on blipfoto, but I'm using it to illustrate a point. With billions of cellphone images being taken every year and posted on the Internet, what unique is left to photograph?

Take a close look at this image taken September 20, 2007. It was shot right where it lay and not touched or moved before or afterward, so anyone else who might happen along could get that same shot. What are the chances of that happening? In this case probably less than 10^-20 unless someone was following close behind in my footsteps through the shifting sands of Death Valley. What are the chances of finding a partially exposed, folded up photograph of an interesting lady that likely fell from the pocket or hand of someone walking along that very same ridge of shifting sand-dune in Death Valley that I was walking on?

This is likely the only photograph I've taken in the Great Southwestern United States that doesn't duplicate millions of great photographs.already published on the Internet. And this is why I'm more interested in composing and photographing interesting subjects that most "photographers" don't see, snap, and post to the Internet. Hopefully viewers of some of my snaps will be able to pause a bit longer than a microsecond or two and think, "hey, this looks interesting."