What is this? 'Unphotographable' is a catalog of exceptional mistakes. Photos never taken that weren't meant to be forgotten. Opportunities missed. Simple failures. Occasions when I wished I'd taken the picture, or not forgotten the camera, or had been brave enough to click the shutter. Michael David Murphy >> TASK: Over the course of one week write 3 'Unphotographable' paragraphs. These should be from a moment when you don't have a camera with you, or for some reason just can't take a photograph. Perhaps you will see 'something' whilst sat on the bus, walking down the street, from a window in your house... these moments can happen literally anywhere.
>> OUTCOME: Each of the 3 paragraphs should be around 200 to 400-ish words. Give each paragraph a short, descriptive title.
>> There is also an excellent book - 'The Photographs Not Taken'
http://www.thephotographsnottaken.com/
"The Photographs Not Taken is a collection of essays by photographers about the times they didn’t use their camera. I have asked the photographers to abandon the conventional tools needed to make a photograph, and, instead, make one using words to describe the memories and experiences that didn’t go through the camera lens. Here, the process of making a photograph has been reversed. Instead of looking out into the world through a camera lens, these essays allow us to look directly into the photographer’s mind and eye and focus on where the photographs come from in their barest and most primitive form. These mental negatives depict the unedited world and the moments of life that do not exist in a single frame." -Will Steacy
...is a book about photography in which there is not a single photograph. It's a collection of essays by 62 photographers about the ones that got away: the images -- burned to memory and conscience -- that, for one reason or another, the photographer could not make. Photographs Not Taken, edited by Will Steacy, features the testimonies of 60 photographers who recount the moments that slipped from their photographic grip, either because they couldn't take the picture, or wouldn't.