Just dragged myself out to take a shot of an isolated cottage I spotted the other day.
I figured the sun would set nicely behind it and make a great picture. Nice undulating field leading invitingly up to it.
Was amazed to find a parking space really close. Thought it would be a hike.
Set the camera up with my 55-250mm on tripod. No Card in Camera!! Remember leaving it on desk. FAIL!
I was going on a dive one weekend earlier this year out of San Diego and my buddy and I start descending. I started turning on my strobes, taking off my dome port cover, positioning the arms and readying the camera for the dive.
As we got to the bottom, an adult sea lion comes whizzing toward us and starts swimming spirals around us. I’m scrambling to finally turn my camera on when it sits perfectly on the sand, back arched and head forward, picture perfect like a performing sea lion at Sea World. It is easily within arm’s reach, it’s in the perfect spot.
I raise my camera up and…black screen. “No way!” I thought. “I know the battery is charged, and the leak detector says the housing isn’t flooded.” And then it hits me. I turn the camera around and through the dome port I see:
“OLYMPUS”
It happens to the best of us dude!