Wednesday 17 March 2010: sooner or later

Whilst expecting a particular outcome can be a dangerous thing in situations where unbiased investigations should be being conducted it's reasonably harmless to keenly anticipate a fairly specific event or result with a high degree of certainty when observing something which would only a tangential impact of low import. This week's multiple pleasing thought-so/knew-it/told-you moments are quite sufficient to offset the mild annoyance at finding that the potential replacement trainers I found last week (which fitted exceedingly well at the end of the day after a long walk) suddenly seemed much smaller (on a shortish walk at lunchtime) when I popped for a final pre-purchase check. More choosing shall have to take place.

I can't quite recall the moment when the newness wore off my camera but it was probably upon noticing the way that the strap had abraded the rubbery padding-stuff next to the strap lugs after a year or so. It had never had any knocks or scrapes to add dents or scratches, but after three years of extremely careful ownership it was dropped for the first time shortly before taking this. Fortunately the bollard it was sitting on was only four feet high and it appears to have escaped completely unscathed, landing on the lens which has suffered nothing more than a denting to the filter thread as I'd taken the filter off to prevent reflections in this shot. It's been possible to slowly and carefully screw the filter back in but it'll be slightly more time-consuming to take it off in the future when photographing things involving point sources in low light. Knacks the resale value too, though I'm currently quite happy with my kit.

NIKON D80 : f/11.0 : 15" : 50mm : ISO 100

Tags

scotland edinburgh dalkeith road royal commonwealth pool commonwealth pool commie pool bus stop light evening night green board boards red seat

Comments

1. Nice blip. Very Wingpigesque.

   ~ MAiT

2. Lucky drop...you too could have expereinced insurance hell.
   
   I love the lines here.

   ~ acronymphomania

3. Just saw your collection of yellow cones on your folio. Very nice and this is oddly nice and bleak in equal measure.

   ~ Instography

4. I've had a couple of drops in fact had a full hand height drop of my 17-55 lens the other weekend. It is frightening when it happens but I've only managed cosmetic damage.

   ~ TractorFactoryPhotos

5. Nice sense of desolation in this one.

   ~ blipper

6. You seem to have cornered the market when it comes to the colour green. Any time I see it, I think wingpig.
   
   (Shouldn't that be 'More choosing will have to take place'?

   ~ David77

7. Nup. Must, not might.

   ~ wingpig

8. But yours is might and mines is must.

   ~ David77

9. Nup. Mine declarative, yours intentional. Historically, anyway; modern-wise, they blur.

   ~ wingpig

10. Well, I'm the teacher and I say will!

    ~ David77

11. Thought you'd be less keen on will after three years of being advised that nothing shall happen unless a god wills it.

    ~ wingpig

12. I must congratulate you on a splendid image.

    ~ hiraeth

13. What are David and Wingpig talking about?

    ~ Scobes

You haven't been invited to comment on this journal. Why not start your own journal and join the community? It's free, only takes a minute and you'll be able to comment on everyone's journals. Click here to get started.