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I was down at Mupe (near Lulworth Cove) shooting last Sunday afternoon. I was there with a mate and there were at least two other toggers I didn’t know.
I was down on the beach / rocks trying to capture some images. I also had another idea for a shot down on to Mupe rocks from the coast path above on the cliffs. Unfortunately I could see one of the other toggers up on the cliff already. I decided not to go for my other idea as I suspected my shooting spot would be in his view, and most likely he would have ended up in my shot.
So I took a few shots on the beach, and feeling a bit underwhelmed with my results glanced back up the cliff to see if the togger was still there. He was - but looked like he had started putting kit away to move or go home.
The next bit happened in slow motion…
He bent over and picked up his backpack camera bag, and put it on his shoulders. I noticed the flap that holds the gear in the pack fall wide open. I went to shout at him but before I could he turned round, open backpack facing towards the cliff and 3 items fall out of the back and start down the cliff
(I remember at this point thinking oh it’ll be just filters or something not too expensive).
As the gear hit the rocks below 2 of the bits of kit didn’t do much but one piece made a LOUD bang. Although I suspected at this point I didn’t want to believe any of the kit was lenses or cameras.
The guy held his head in his hands I must say I felt extremely gutted for him. He packed up the rest of his gear and took the path down to the beach and rocks below. He wandered around for a bit looking for his gear and I made my way over to see if I could help. By then he had found 2 lens hoods, and the front element of his Canon 24-105 (enough to know the lens hadn’t survived).
Having witnessed this I felt truly gutted for the guy. He did say he was lucky that his 100-400 didn’t fall out (the lens hood did) and that he wasn’t carrying his second body!
If you’re the said togger on here I hope I haven’t embarrassed you. Not my point. Really I just want to say be careful out there.
Sometimes when the light is just right and the creativity is flowing you take shortcuts or rush a bit and kit gets damaged (I managed to drop my Big Stopper on the rocks the other day but it survived for the same reason).
I was down on the beach / rocks trying to capture some images. I also had another idea for a shot down on to Mupe rocks from the coast path above on the cliffs. Unfortunately I could see one of the other toggers up on the cliff already. I decided not to go for my other idea as I suspected my shooting spot would be in his view, and most likely he would have ended up in my shot.
So I took a few shots on the beach, and feeling a bit underwhelmed with my results glanced back up the cliff to see if the togger was still there. He was - but looked like he had started putting kit away to move or go home.
The next bit happened in slow motion…
He bent over and picked up his backpack camera bag, and put it on his shoulders. I noticed the flap that holds the gear in the pack fall wide open. I went to shout at him but before I could he turned round, open backpack facing towards the cliff and 3 items fall out of the back and start down the cliff
(I remember at this point thinking oh it’ll be just filters or something not too expensive).As the gear hit the rocks below 2 of the bits of kit didn’t do much but one piece made a LOUD bang. Although I suspected at this point I didn’t want to believe any of the kit was lenses or cameras.
The guy held his head in his hands I must say I felt extremely gutted for him. He packed up the rest of his gear and took the path down to the beach and rocks below. He wandered around for a bit looking for his gear and I made my way over to see if I could help. By then he had found 2 lens hoods, and the front element of his Canon 24-105 (enough to know the lens hadn’t survived).
Having witnessed this I felt truly gutted for the guy. He did say he was lucky that his 100-400 didn’t fall out (the lens hood did) and that he wasn’t carrying his second body!
If you’re the said togger on here I hope I haven’t embarrassed you. Not my point. Really I just want to say be careful out there.
Sometimes when the light is just right and the creativity is flowing you take shortcuts or rush a bit and kit gets damaged (I managed to drop my Big Stopper on the rocks the other day but it survived for the same reason).
