Post your best 'I wish I had my camera!' moment

Phate

Phate

Phate

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Right,

We've all had plenty. so share your moment of annoyance!

I was going to see a friend of mine and as I was joining the A12 it was about 6pm at a guess....and the sky looked....UNREAL. It was a transition of night to day so the sky went from a starry black to a sunlit yellow...

so the transition of colours was...

orange
yellow
green
light blue
dark blue
black with stars.

Across the entire sky, it was simply....amazing....
 
Harsh mate, so close!

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On the way to work last week up the M3, was about 8.15am and the sun shining. There was no clouds in the sky but it was slightly misty. As I looked to my right I noticed the sun blazing, the baby blue sky with mist and a huge red hot air balloon in the foreground.

I usually take my camera to work but on this day I didn't. It would have been fantastic!!!

Shame. better luck next time eh?
 
blastman said:
Shame. better luck next time eh?
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Ah thats harsh dude!

I've started carrying my camera around with me in the car...but unfortunately I've been working at a school this week so I've avoided it :p

Don't think they'd appreciate me turning up with a 40D :o
 
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I've started carrying my camera around with me in the car...but unfortunately I've been working at a school this week so I've avoided it :p
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I can imagine :)

I've been leaving my little Olympus compact in the car, as I've missed so many great sunsets when driving etc.

Of course the one time I went back to my parents house for the weekend I forgot my 40D, and naturally the first day to have a perfect frost and still air, the Olympus battery had to be dead
 
Phate said:
I've started carrying my camera around with me in the car...but unfortunately I've been working at a school this week so I've avoided it :p

Don't think they'd appreciate me turning up with a 40D :o
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No I don't reaken they be happy with a matie in a car at the back of the car park with a 400mm lens sticking out the window !!! ;)

Isn't there some sort of register for people who do that.......
 
Last Spring at around 3pm one afternoon a storm was brewing. The sky was split in half. Bright blue sky then sudden transition to the darkest clouds imaginable, it was quite surreal.
 
Have to say I missed a cracker of a sunrise whilst driving to work at 5am, wanted to capture it as me and sunrises rarely see eachother anyway :)
 
hmm....I might mount my camera in my car and get it take a pic every minute and go for a drive....could end up with some cool stuff :D
 
Mines in my bag with me at all times......haven't come across anything randomly worth shooting though. :(

But when I do I'll be ready! :D

.....unless the battery has died... :P
 
Le_Petit_Lapin said:
Mines in my bag with me at all times......haven't come across anything randomly worth shooting though. :(

But when I do I'll be ready! :D

.....unless the battery has died... :P
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I have my camera in my bag - but I've missed so many shots. One great example was when I was walking about and I saw this pot hole at a distance and thought, I should get my camera out and wait for someone to trip and shoot when they're in mid-air.

Just as I finish my monologue, a women in heels tripped with her coffee flying forwards (but didn't fall on the ground). Would have been a picture moment. Her expression staring back at the pot hole was priceless.
 
erm, every time i don't take my camera the best skateboard session goes down in the local skatepark. and i have missed my camera a few times when random pro skateboards come to town :(
 
theres been many times im driving down a motorway/A road like the A12 or M11 and thought, id love to stop RIGHT HERE and take a picture.

But i think it would **** some people off lol

Phate said:
hmm....I might mount my camera in my car and get it take a pic every minute and go for a drive....could end up with some cool stuff :D
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ive always wanted to do something like that. record my random drives
 
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Phate said:
I just set off to do some IR shots of the nearby fields. I thought with the sunset coming in and a light mist...it'd look pretty awesome.

So I walk down and setup, I'm just getting the focus right and screwing the filter on and I hear a quad bike stop behind me....here we go...


Old man: What are you doing here?!
Me: *looks at camera on tripod*
Old man: Well?! Come on! out with it!!!
Me: I'm taking pictures
Old man: But that's MY field
Me: errrm.....right....what difference does that make, I'm a photographer, therefore I take pictures
Old man: Not of my field your not

So I turn to ignore him as all I needed to do was press the shutter button to then continue my arguement, So I set it for a 30 second exposure, and *click* it starts taking the picture

Old man: you should have more respect for your elders!!!!
Ok, so I snapped...

Me: To be fair, you don't have any signs up saying you don't want any pictures taken, I'm taking a picture of the bloody sunset for starters, which isn't owned by anyone! And what harm is it doing, I'm not actually on your field, I'm behind the gate, I'm doing nothing wrong. Unless you can prove I am breaking the law I'm not moving a muscle until I'm finished!

*click* - ahh awesome. The picture is done :D

Old man: Where do you live?
Me: Why, are you going to come and take pictures?
Old man: nope, I'm reporting you to the police for a public disturbance
Me: Riiight...sure, I'm done here anyway.

So I pack away my stuff with the old man standing there looking smug. And I said "I'll be back here tonight, to get some shots of the moonlit field, yes I mean your field as well"

Old man: What time?!
Me: Whenever I feel like it, like I said. I'm breaking no laws.

The guy looked stunned and couldn't think of a reply, so feeling good about myself I proudly march away.

I just got into the flat, turn on the camera and hit the play button















"INSERT CF CARD"

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;)
 
Well.

I was in Indonesia not this summer but the one before. The whole thing was incredible and I got some good shots, but there were a couple of things that grated.

We were going to the beach for a swim and to bathe our various wounds. To get to the beach, you had to go over a bridge, but one of the villages over towards the beach had recently nicked all of the wood from it due to some random dispute :

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So there were only girders to walk across and there was around a 60ft drop below into some rapids. I'd done it twice (there and back) before, and figured that I didn't really want to do it with my camera this time, so I left it at home. On the way, we saw a Bat Hawk (quite a stunning bird http://images.google.co.uk/images?q=bat hawk&hl=en) perched in a tree about 10m from the path that just looked at us as we all walked past and never moved once. That was annoying, as I would have loved a photo of it. When we got to the beach, there was an Osprey circling on the thermals just above the palm trees, so again about 10m away. Could have shot the damn thing with a 10mm lol and I had nothing. That was doubly annoying, though it was a nice swim.
 
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