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Photo of the Day - November 2020
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Yeah, that's why I just abandoned my dream of having nice, fast, light prime lenses for the short end and picked up a slower 12-45 recently. Even then, I still had to make a switch, and my 75-300 was in the car! ?
This afternoon when preparing to go out for a walk around the neighborhood (the lake), I swapped out the battery, as I knew the battery in the camera was getting low and figured I'd just take care of putting in a fresh one at home rather than having to do it while standing out on the boardwalk..... I had a 64 GB memory card in the camera, freshly cleared, formatted and ready to go. Normally when I go out on walks I take a small pouch with an extra battery and an extra memory card. Today I figured, "naw, I won't need that, got the fresh battery in the camera, doesn't seem to be much action out there right now, so I won't be shooting up the memory card until it's full......"
So, yeah, guess what, action did develop and 45 minutes or so or so later I'm standing out on the boardwalk firing madly away at the Hooded Mergansers, who apparently think it's spring and are engaging in what looks a lot like courtship/mating behavior, and....uh, oops....the camera burps, and then comes the dreaded message that the memory card is full! AAAAAGGGHHH!!!! The pouch with the extra memory card was....yep, still at home on the table where I'd left it. Sigh..... Lesson learned there! I never know what kind of shooting situation(s) I'm going to run into, I always need to have a spare battery and a spare memory card with me. I reluctantly waved goodbye to the Mergansers and came on home. Still looking through the images I shot, as there were, yeah, a lot of them! Continuous High/burst mode is great but one does pay a price in time later at the computer when sorting through the lot in the end....
Yep, we need to always have the right lens(es) and the backup battery and the backup memory card with us at all times, as sure as shooting, the one time we don't is the time we need one or more of those!
So, yeah, guess what, action did develop and 45 minutes or so or so later I'm standing out on the boardwalk firing madly away at the Hooded Mergansers, who apparently think it's spring and are engaging in what looks a lot like courtship/mating behavior, and....uh, oops....the camera burps, and then comes the dreaded message that the memory card is full! AAAAAGGGHHH!!!! The pouch with the extra memory card was....yep, still at home on the table where I'd left it. Sigh..... Lesson learned there! I never know what kind of shooting situation(s) I'm going to run into, I always need to have a spare battery and a spare memory card with me. I reluctantly waved goodbye to the Mergansers and came on home. Still looking through the images I shot, as there were, yeah, a lot of them! Continuous High/burst mode is great but one does pay a price in time later at the computer when sorting through the lot in the end....
Yep, we need to always have the right lens(es) and the backup battery and the backup memory card with us at all times, as sure as shooting, the one time we don't is the time we need one or more of those!
Fall from 200 feet in Livonia, Michigan
Oyster Point-200906-24.jpg by Charles Martorelli, on Flickr
Chicago,Il, Roosevelt Road and Lake Shore Drive shot from the lake front bike trail. can’t remember the exact name of the building, sorry.
Brining the Fuji Acros film simulation on this one. Love the vantage I was able to get here, pretty much level with the seaguls. Only had 55mm, would have liked a little more reach.
1/500 f4.5 ISO 200
1/500 f4.5 ISO 200
This tiny mushroom was about a centimetre across.
Supplement to my weekly photo contest/Shapes comment today. Son-in-law's cousin's farm.
Shaping Up
X100t f5.6 800 ISO200 - I don't recall these plantings being shaped this way. They may have been damaged by the recent ice storm. However I do like the new shapes.
X100t f5.6 800 ISO200 - I don't recall these plantings being shaped this way. They may have been damaged by the recent ice storm. However I do like the new shapes.
Hooded Mergansers being really frisky yesterday afternoon!
I call this one 'Wind Socked' for obvious reasons.
Panasonic FZ2000, 1/125 @ f/4.2
Cheers
Hugh
feel everything
that is beautiful
and possible in your soul,
and let yourself
become it
//
butterflies rising
with the lensbaby edge 80
that is beautiful
and possible in your soul,
and let yourself
become it
//
butterflies rising
with the lensbaby edge 80
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