So, as luck would have it, friend Scott and spouse Linda began chatting after Scott, Lily and I finished our walk last Thursday (or was it Tuesday). Anyway, I wasn’t listening, but there was some high-bandwidth communication going on, and both emerged with that cat-that-snatched-the-canary look. It seems that they had hatched a project.
Well suddenly, after a flurry of emails, domain registrations, a new Google Apps account (Scott and Linda are both get-it-done-now kind of people), the project has taken on a distinct ’startup’ kind of feel (and you’re talking to a veteran of 7 attempts at the Next Big Thing). Yet more email flew, prototypes appeared, well, you get the idea. I’m dreading the appearance of the first PowerPoint
Making the proverbial long story shorter, today I found myself in a car with a bag full of cameras and lenses, driving around to ‘assignments,’ many of which were self-generated. In short, I was back where I started many years ago, chasing ‘content’ (we used to call them ‘pictures’) on a tight schedule. It was great.
Mind you, we had some setbacks. I left the house with a camera with a low battery, secure in the knowledge I had a spare in the bag. Secure, that is, until the spare proved to be dead, too.
Back to the house, where we threw one dead battery into the charger, while we uploaded the few snaps we’d made before the electron gas tank had hit the Big ‘E.’ A quick battery change, and we were off to the next gig. We raised the camera, pressed the button… and… nada. This time, we’d left the SD card in the reader back home. It was like leaving the house without film. That never happened in the old days (well, almost never).
Fortunately, we had a few spare SD cards in the bag, and, after a brief, embarrassing moment, finished the shoot. On the way back home, a serendipitous photo opp presented itself. Rust and hemiplegia notwithstanding, we managed to get a picture. It felt really good. Tonight we’re going through the bag – spare batteries, backup body, SD cards, flash, tripod et al. are being carefully assembled…
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