Congratulations Nutella.
I knew I was forgetting something in this challenge, and Turoskel told me what it was ... I didn't use the consignment store to sell my photos, I sold them directly from my camera instead. I started off trying to complete the world class gallery LTW, but couldn't work out what I was doing wrong with it and so changed to Renaissance Sim for Snaphappy Tribble.
I made him human and gave him photographer's eye, adventurous, artistic, and two other traits that I have now forgotten. I turned on all weather, all supernaturals, set seasons to 3 days each and also turned on celebrities. Finally, I turned off memories. I moved him onto an empty lot, and then had him meet, marry and move in with Agnes. I did that as she had a gravestone in her yard and I hoped that Erik's ghost would wander most nights. She also ha a nice expensive motor vehicle which I sold in order to buy out the consignment store to get the most expensive camera. The car would I then purchased things so that I could get various photos.
I think I was fortunate and the camera was there on the first buy out of the consignment store. Initially I went on the small photo size and went around town to get all the plants and similar small shots while my photography skill was rising. By the time I headed overseas the first time (with Agnes), we headed off to France to get the France shots needed for things. Once Agnes recovered, they headed to China. By the time we got to Egypt, I left Agnes at home and took another housemate instead (Yumi, I believe). Yumi started gardening and some other things outside.
I gave Yumi a young again potion, Snaphappy and Agnes adopted a kid (male, name of Kodak Tribble) who took care of the kid photos. They also adopted a girl (toddler - name of Polaroid Tribble) who was able to get toddler photos taken. Kodak was fast tracked to YA (got the graduation photo) and married Yumi. Yumi and Kodak adopted a toddler (Ricoh Tribble) who provided the grand child picture for Snaphappy. Oh and Kodak and Yumi became spring dance king and queen at one stage.
I also asked Dorie Hart to move in, and was able to pick up the roommate pictures with her. I had her became a Cop, I thought it would be an easy way to get the photographs dealing with the police - policeman and supercop and police car. It didn't work out that way, and so i made her a werewolf and had her do the werewolf actions. Agnes became a fairy and did fairy things. Agnes was thanked by me by becoming a fairy, learning martial arts, sparring with Dorie, holding a protest against yetis, having a mummy potion thrown at her, eating a snack as a mummy, lighting a fire and becoming doubly dead in the process. She did not, however, qualify for the 'my dead spouse' photo.
I moved Dorie out along with a pet (a dog, I believe) and adopted a horse, a puppy and a kitten. I brought all the pets together and got 'a zoo' and the kitten and puppy gave me baby animals. Yumi purchased the three horse riding books, became best friends with the horse and got to riding it. I bought the beach,, flattened out some of it, and set up show jumping things, and Yumi and Buttons did some jumping. Kodak caught a bird, bought a cage, and taught the bird to talk, while Polaroid and Ricoh spoke non-stop to their imaginary friend dolls, but to no effect.
And that was the end of my 4 weeks and 250 shots.
Some features/favourites:-
* Dragon Cave was my best single shot at over 10k
* It took me a while to realise that if I went to the house of a police officer, I would be able to get the police car, completing that photo collection.
* I tried to get the police officer and the fire officer by calling for services and then each one. I failed to get the pictures of them, somehow.
* Death wasn't being nice when I tried to get simply death.
* I threw a mummy potion at a random townie early on ... that townie walked like a mummy for the rest of the game.
* Getting doubly dead.
Some annoyances:
Some shots just wouldn't fire for me, that normally do fire, these included:
* celebrity
* imaginary friend,
* sculpture garden,
* one sick sim,
* my dead spouse, and
* dead family member.
I created a spreadsheet for it, listing all the photos according to their collection, and made notes on things I found (that didn't seem to be captured already):-
* A wedding worked for me with just the wedding arch,
* Dumpster diving needs bins, not dumpsters, and
* Photographing a fairy doing a fairy trap on a couch counted as 'Caught'.
Finally, some screen shots done up as a collage using picmonkey, including Agnes as doubly dead.
