You have a good chance of encountering bins of goods for sale when you’re traveling. They often make interesting subjects for a pocket camera photo. The photos are colorful, make interesting texture patterns, and provide something to ponder when you return home and have the time. There is more to see in the photos than you had time to contemplate on the spot.

Once you own a digital camera, you can take extra images for negligible cost. Don’t use the capability to take nearly identical pictures of the same subject. That just clogs up the editing pipeline when dispose of them later. One of the worthwhile uses of free images is capture signs and brochures that describe the subjects of your photos. Visiting the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum near Tucson, Arizona, I took this photo of an unusual plant called willow groundsel. This picture doesn’t reveal what is so unusual, but a photo of an accompanying sign keeps the memory alive.