I have resolved once again to carry my camera in the car with me each day. Okay. Most days.
I tried it for a while and it was a lot of trouble. Carrying my camera to work was like having a toddler in the car. If I stop at the grocery store do I take the camera in or leave it unattended? What if it gets too hot in the car or someone steals it? So I stopped.
Soon afterward I was driving to work early one morning and I saw a cougar. That is so unusual in my area that I was afraid no one would believe me. Every time I told someone their first words were, "Did you have your camera with you?" You can guess my answer since you haven't seen a photo of a cougar here.
I don't expect to ever see a cougar again as that is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. But today I was lucky enough to see the twins. You can't see their mom as she is a little deeper in the woods and to the left.
Remember to take your camera with you tomorrow.
Remember to take your camera with you tomorrow.
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I've been wanting pics of the chickens that hang out outside my office window during the day. For two weeks--two weeks--I lugged my camera with the 70-300mm lens attached, which is rather like carrying a toddler, except that it doesn't wiggle. No chickens. I could hear them, and see them through the vine-covered fence, but they never came out.
ReplyDeleteFinally, I gave up. I took the zoom off, put my (relatively) little 18-55mm back on, and for the next two weeks have had chickens. Every day. Sometimes within a yard of my office window.
Of course, I could get pictures of chickens three feet from my window with the lens I've got, but now the evil creatures are only coming out in the middle of sessions. Never in between. Never before or after work. Never on my lunch break.
Those chickens are messing with my head.
Anyway, doesn't it just figure you'd see a cougar when you didn't have your camera?
You don't think it would be appropriate to interrupt a session by screeching, "There are the chickens!" and rushing to the window with your camera?
ReplyDeleteP.S. I decided long ago that these bags http://www.epiphaniebags.com/ are the perfect solution to the "Do take the camera in the store or leave it unattended?" problem. An Epiphanie has been on my WANT! list for a while now.
ReplyDeleteThose are nice. And the best thing is that they don't look like they are holding a camera. So you are not advertising to purse snatchers, "Expensive camera inside."
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