OK sometimes I even amaze my self.
Last Saturday the wife and I needed to make a trip up to Vancouver to pick up my Son and Daughter in-law and her brother from the airport. We went up a couple of hours early, so I could stop at a couple of camera stores and look at goodies for an upcoming workshop that I'm going to.
After visiting the camera store's we went out to Spanish beach which offers a great view of the city skyline and of course I had one of my camera kit's with me. So we are sitting at the beach and I am kind of kicking myself because I made conscious decision not to bring my tripod when we left the house. The skyline was beautiful, the sun was starting to set, thunder heads were building behind the city, lightning was starting. Now I am kicking my self even harder for leaving the tripod (I never leave my tripod)
, OK so now I need to try to hand hold my camera, I get my camera set up for some 4 sec exposures at f 9.5 find myself a perch, so here I am all set up and snap my first shot........... No Memory card in camera, Now I'm really kicking myself
, I look in the battery grip for my spare card that I am supposed to have............ Empty
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Damn Damn Damn...... all my the cards were in my other camera bag.
I didn't give it a second thought when I left the house.
The moral of the story..... even if you think you have what you need, take the time to double check, The tripod doesn't add any weight that the car will notice, so take it with.
So I did ended up capturing some great Images. But I am the only one that will ever see them again.