Funny Story

 So, whenever I buy a new car, I always update the sidebar to include it, which means including a picture of it linking to the post. So each time I buy a car, I have to take pictures of 47...no...48 cars. I like to keep the format typically the same; side view angle with the same shot. And what I'll typically do is light them a particular way for the session so that they all look good, are accurate representations, and have a nice overall uniform look. 

The Lola, and all the rest of the cars, are on the right sidebar. They're lit up with Lego City in the background.

I enjoy photography. It's been a hobby of mine for a number of years. I like to practice here with lighting and getting a nice shot of a nice car. I like that this slot car hobby can have so many spin-off aspects to it. I've found a way to incorporate photography, video, audio...all of it into slot cars. No, I didn't invent anything. But I love that they can all come together into one cohesive thing.

So a funny thing happened. I just got the Hippie Car [I love the name, so easy to recognize], and as I was taking pics of the cars for the sidebar, I went through the whole batch, finished up, loaded them into the computer, edited them, and started uploading. I got all the way to the bottom where the oldest cars are, and I realized I didn't have pictures for about five of them. I checked and double checked, and sure enough, I somehow missed getting pics of them. 

So I went back to the boxes and looked, and didn't see any of the missing cars. I must have misplaced them somehow. It was 5 cars, including the new Carrera Porsche, so I knew it had to be somewhere nearby. So I started looking around. My apartment is small, and there are only so many places to put things. I turned the whole place upside down looking for them. Every box, drawer, bag, sack or stack of anything was gone through. 

I keep my cars in stackable plastic sandwich boxes. Each one neatly holds three cars, and the boxes lock together in a stack. Makes it very convenient. Unfortunately not all of my boxes are like that. I also have a different set of boxes, stackable, yet not lockable. They're larger and could hold easily ten cars stacked on each other. Two of the boxes have two layers of cars in each of them. 

So after pretty much giving up, I check the boxes one more time, and wouldn't you know it, I found the cars buried on the bottom row of one of the large boxes. 

So that does it. I'm going to have to get rid of those boxes and move to the others. I'll have to shop around for them, but I should be able to find them without much trouble. They're popular at discount stores. I like the lockable ones better because they're much more fit for holding the cars. The big boxes feel like everything's loose inside. 

Tried to find a pic of my storage boxes, but I guess I haven't taken many shots of them. That plastic stack in the middle of the shot from the old, blurry Canon 500D days is them.

I can't have cars disappearing like that, even if technically there were always there to begin with, just hidden under a cover in a box. Plus, I want the tighter, more convenient stacking of the locking boxes. 

So now I have to reshoot the cars for the sidebar. Setup takes about 15 minutes and the shoot takes about an hour. 45 minutes to edit, another 45 to upload them to the sidebar. If you look on the right right now you can see which ones I missed. Oh, and to answer a question: no, I don't have a particular order the cars go in, nor do I have any form of checklist I follow [except the sidebar].