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Why is it that when you need your camera it is never to hand, just looked out of the window and what did I see ........24 blackbirds and 6 Field Fares amongst others, went and got my camera and what was there .............
2 Blue tits.:lol::lol:
 
I've just had a similar experience.

I saw a bloke walking past the house with a pair of skis slung over his shoulder, so I grab the camera and hurtle upstairs to get a shot from the upstairs window, checking settings as I go. I get upstairs, bring the camera to my eye to shoot and ........ black. The lens cap was still on. By the time I got the cap off he had disappeared around the corner.
 
similar experience here, except that I saw all the small birds take off at once - then a sparrowhawk landed on the fence, no wonder they took off
 
Briony said:
Why is it that when you need your camera it is never to hand, just looked out of the window and what did I see ........24 blackbirds and 6 Field Fares amongst others, went and got my camera and what was there .............
2 Blue tits.:lol::lol:
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Story of my life. Guess it is down to never being prepared enough.
 
Briony said:
Why is it that when you need your camera it is never to hand, just looked out of the window and what did I see ........24 blackbirds and 6 Field Fares amongst others, went and got my camera and what was there .............
2 Blue tits.:lol::lol:
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:lol:

time to get that point and shoot
 
I was putting some stuff in the car today, and heard some squalking. A falcon had taken a pigeon and was sat on it on the pavement on the other side of the street. Bearing in mind I live in a town, this is not a common site. I went to get the camera I keep in the car, remembering I had taken it out, so started to move to get the one in the house, and it flew off, dead pigeon and all. Gutted, I was 20 feet away and would have had some awesome shots.
 
Buzzard taking off from the verge at the roadside, with a young rabbit in its talons last autumn. I was driving, so it wouldn't really have made any difference if I had a camera with me, but all the same...........
 
jomike said:
I've just had a similar experience.

I saw a bloke walking past the house with a pair of skis slung over his shoulder, so I grab the camera and hurtle upstairs to get a shot from the upstairs window, checking settings as I go. I get upstairs, bring the camera to my eye to shoot and ........ black. The lens cap was still on. By the time I got the cap off he had disappeared around the corner.
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It's not always that way though :). On Sunday, I was off out to test my new lens (a 70-200mm) and as soon as I stepped out of the apartment and walked around the corner, what did I see but a guy hurtling towards me on a pair of telemark skis ... in the middle of a main road :eek:!!!

It took me a few seconds to get my gloves off, wrestle the camera out of it's bag and grab the shot, but I got it :thumbs: ...

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So, don't lose heart - we all get lucky sometimes ;)!
 
Nice capture Andy.

I would have been even more gutted if my guy was actually on skis, but someone walking down a snow covered street with skis on his shoulder is not something you see often in southern England.
 
OH for foresight.....:eek: as that famous frenchman said, "Chance favours the prepared mind"
 
And the famous frenchman, you ask?.............Louis Pasteur
 
jomike said:
Nice capture Andy.

I would have been even more gutted if my guy was actually on skis, but someone walking down a snow covered street with skis on his shoulder is not something you see often in southern England.
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Thanks Mike!

What I didn't tell you is that whilst I was busy admiring this capture on my camera's LCD screen and scrutinising the histogram, *a bus came zooming by the junction at the end of the street and knocked him 20 feet into the air :eek:!!!

Chance my well favour the prepared mind, but it looks pretty unfavourably on the smug :D!

* Obviously a blatant lie, with the sole purpose of making a humurous point ;).
 
What on earth was a bus doing driving on the street?
 
I wish I had my camera to hand a couple of days ago.
i was woken up at 4.30am by the sound of my wife using her digital camera to take photos out of the window. Just outside were 2 foxes play fighting in the snow!
Sadly, her compact - nice though it is - wasn't really up to the job.
 
AndyB said:
What on earth was a bus doing driving on the street?
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Well, we don't have Arriva busses over here, so it's not uncommon to see a bus going along on its planned route at the correct time :|.








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Weetobix said:
I wish I had my camera to hand a couple of days ago.
i was woken up at 4.30am by the sound of my wife using her digital camera to take photos out of the window. Just outside were 2 foxes play fighting in the snow!
Sadly, her compact - nice though it is - wasn't really up to the job.
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What, you don't put your camera to sleep in the top bedside drawer, under a little soft cloth every night, and have the drawer open so you can check it is sleeping soudnly every night? I thought it said that in the manual?
 
Sometimes, just sometimes ...

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Ran about the house trying to find a charged battery, failed and then settled for the wife's point and shooter!
 
You know, sometimes it is acceptable to just watch and remember - especially if you know you can't do the scene justice with the equipment to hand - or if you're a crap photographer...lol
 
What I find is more frustrating is when I have my camera with me but the wrong lens and by the time I've swapped, whatever it was has gone... >: (

I guess I will be pushed into buying a superzoom one day!
 
What I didn't tell you is that whilst I was busy admiring this capture on my camera's LCD screen and scrutinising the histogram, *a bus came zooming by the junction at the end of the street and knocked him 20 feet into the air !!!
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I thought you said you got the shot!!!! :lol:
 
Me and a friend saw a guy fall into a freezing cold river off some snow-covered stepping stones. both of us had cameras in hands. we'd been taking shots of a friendly robin who liked sitting on the tripods. NEITHER of us snapped it! :thinking:
 
CGeezer said:
I thought you said you got the shot!!!! :lol:
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:D Always read the small print, John ...

[Quote from original post:] * Obviously a blatant lie, with the sole purpose of making a humurous point .
 
Naboo32 said:
:D Always read the small print, John ...

[Quote from original post:] * Obviously a blatant lie, with the sole purpose of making a humurous point .
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Damn .. caught out again. did i mention i'm near blind :lol:
 
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