your worst photos

[Mergingtraffic]

Anybody want to cough up their bad road or sign photos?  Pics where the lighting was bad, blurry, out of focus, or the element you wanted to be emphasized but wasn't etc?

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I just don't like it, I could never get a good shot of this sign.  It never really hit the sunlight.  Now it's been replaced btw.

[formulanone]

I usually just delete or ignore the bad photos, but there's a few I've posted to my site for reasons of inanity.

I-73 at I-40; for some reason, I thought I'd never encounter this interchange again, but I massively overexposed it, and then did some dodgy curve-work to get the signs right. (To top it off, I named part of the file "US412" by mistake.)



El Paso, Illinois. Blurry and Arial.

[TheHighwayMan3561]

Wow, if these are your guys's worst I want to see your best.

[vdeane]

My true worst would be some blurry thing that didn't come out fully and got deleted.  Of the stuff that I keep, it would have to be the pictures I've taken from the back seat in roadmeets.  This one is especially bad.

[corco]

http://www.corcohighways.org/highways/wy/wyroutes/?p=3183

[Thing 342]

Like most, I take out most of the garbage photos shortly upon returning. However, here are some really poor ones that I keep around:


I-85 S at the NC-SC border. Really grainy and underexposed; I didn't even bother postprocessing this one.


VA-311 N somewhere in Craig County. Again underexposed, likely due to the incoming clouds.

[kurumi]

Wrong side:


Too close:


I'm just kicking myself. How could I have screwed up so badly 

[jeffandnicole]

There ain't enough server space for all my bad photos!

[KG909]

Sierra Ave at I-10 Ca Exit 63 or 64

[ctsignguy]

Too blurry and too much sun (two PA Error shields.....US 33 and US 611)


The lamest acknowledgement of the GAR ever (sun behind sign)


The unsigned end of US 6 on Cape Cod (sun behind sign)

[busman_49]

A little blurry, but it's one of only two of these I've seen, so something was better than nothing:
P1020174 by Ryan busman_49, on Flickr

I usually delete the junk ones.

[BelpheniaProject]

These are one of my worst ones in my gallery. What happened was that I was in the back seat of the car throughout my Mississippi trip in late-September and early-October 2012.

Mississippi Highway 35 in Walnut Grove. I took it with a Samsung Droid Charge and failed to get the camera to focus:


Mississippi Highway 21, between Forest and Sebastopol in Scott County with all that drizzle on the windshield:


On Interstate 55 between Memphis and Blytheville in Arkansas with too much white-out in the picture. This is the worst of my worst of all my road pictures, all because I took them from the back seat of my car:

[bandit957]

Almost all these photos are actually good enough that I would have used them.