Moments you wish you had your camera with you but didn't!

[PJ]

I was driving down a 4 lane road yesterday and was comming up on the passanger side of a student driver. I looked over and the driving instructor had her head leaning against the window with her eyes closed. The driver Had both hands on the wheel and had a scared ****less look on his face.
I really really wish I had my camera with me for that.

What are some of the moments you all have expierenced like this?



PJ

[PacAce]

It's a good thing you didn't have your camera with you or you might also have had that "scared ****less" look on your face after coming to the realization that the car doesn't switch to auto-pilot mode when you're busy trying to take a picture of people in another car beside you. :shock:

:mrgreen: :lol:

[PJ]

Spray and Pray baby :D

your probally right tho

[RockSlut]

David Bowie playing Brisbane Entertainment Centre, our local stadium venue earlier this year. My girlfriend and I were 2nd row and 45 degree angle to DB's mike stand, approx 10m (30ft) from where he was performing.

Possibly 3 of the most enjoyable, yet painful hours I've had at a gig. We even had the camera in the bottom of my GF's handbag, but given the security guard's efficiency in confiscating cameras it stayed where it was.

[theflyingkiwi]

about a month ago I had 2 moments with in a couple of days apart. It was getting close to the end of the day and it was almost a full moon, so when it was up the sky was a deep blue while the moon stood out. Just then 757 plane flew right underneath the moon.

that would have been a cool shot, and then a few days later when driving home, the sunset was just so cool but by the time I got home and grab the camera all the lighting had changed and the moment had been lost.

Both of these moments was at work, and I don't normaly take the camera.

DOH!

[sGu]

walk passed Julia Stiles shoulder by shoulder on London Bridge one night, had my 10D in my bag, but didn't have flash with me; saw Gwyneth Paltrow while driving in Chelsea with my camera in the boot but a police car behind me with no where to park :roll:

[Kaylesh]

For me it was when i was walking home from the hairdressers and looked up in a clear blue sky to see the Concorde making its last flight to Edinburgh Airport being being retired.. Sigggggh..
Woulda made a awesome pic.. was a bright,clear blue,sunny sky.. Alas my camera was at home..
Didn't think anything interesting would happen between my flat and the hairdressers..
Kaylesh

[Canuck]

In hindsite, there are a lot of times I wish we had the technology to download images from our head to computer. This although would probably blow away ARGB, SRGB and the lot. I am thinking of many sunsets I have seen in the past. Something about the colours is just plain awesome. Also, the fall colours of the Northeast US I wish I had a camera in '96. Also, much like Kaylesh, I have many memories seeing Concorde as a child overflying the Rockaways/Atlantic Ocean below in NYC area. The shape of it has intrigued me for a long time and well I will be able to see G-BOAD hopefully for a little while in the next 4-6 weeks. The sound you couldn't miss and the route it took was wild, Canarzzi (spelling?) Ok, I'm getting OTT now. Ok, it was a one-off and it has been done since 24 Oct commercially and mid Nov when the last flight to Bristol was the true end of an era.

[ChrisN]

Last night, I saw a car on a flatbed tow truck and that truck was being towed by another tow truck. I would have loved that one, just for the irony.

[Jon]

A semi rolling down the Jersey Turnpike with a 2-car carrier behind it (not a car carrier with 2 cars on it, a carrier designed for 2 cars!). No, wait, I did have the A80, and my wife was driving :{)#

Seriously, almost as bad as not having the camera were the times I've seen wonderful, luminous cloud formations when I haven't been able to reach the camera that was with me, let alone find somewhere to stop long enough to do them justice.

[Kinger]

I would have to say my entire trip to Gettysburg, PA. I didn't even own my current equipment at the time, I had a first generation 1mp Olympus camera that didn't even have an lcd screen, but forgot it in the hotel room.

[jimtfoto]

Was on a business trip to Alberta last year (right about this time) that was supposed to involve: Flight to Edmonton, check in to hotel, eat dinner, get up next morning, meeting at 9 a.m., break for lunch, meeting at 1 p.m., end of meeting at 3 p.m., airport at 4 p.m, flight to Calgary at 5 p.m. ... etc., etc ... with such as busy schedule, I decided to leave camera at home.
However, as anyone in Ontario and northeast U.S. will remember, we got hit with the Great Blackout and all flights were cancelled.
So, stuck in Calgary with naught to do, my boss decided we'd drive to Banff for the day. Beautiful spot, but picture possibilities dimmed somewhat by haze from fires in B.C.
On the way back to Calgary, we witnessed four new forest fires in the area, each more spectacular than the next.
Painful lesson .... your camera ... don't leave home without it.
jim

[Jemmind]

In hindsite, there are a lot of times I wish we had the technology to download images from our head to computer.

It'd sure be cool if we could just look at something and say, SNAP and take a picture, instantly transmit it to a hard drive something.
If that were possible, I would record my dreams. If I could remember my dreams well enough, I'd be a freakin millionaire! I could write books, make movies, oh it would be sweet! My dreams are so awesome. Better than real life.
Sorry this was a little off topic
:oops:

Julie

[Canuck]

In hindsite, there are a lot of times I wish we had the technology to download images from our head to computer.

It'd sure be cool if we could just look at something and say, SNAP and take a picture, instantly transmit it to a hard drive something.
If that were possible, I would record my dreams. If I could remember my dreams well enough, I'd be a freakin millionaire! I could write books, make movies, oh it would be sweet! My dreams are so awesome. Better than real life.
Sorry this was a little off topic
:oops:

Julie

Yes this would be cool, but I think that the human body takes in between 3-6 TB of info every second from the 5 senses. This is bearing in mind you are wide awake, and not is a dark room, and normal day to day life. I forget where I heard that tidbit.

[KartGirlsMom]

I was coming back from taking coffe to my husband in the fields (we have a farm) and there was a flock of 10-12 turkeys! I've seen one or two before, but never a flock like that. By the time I got back with my camera they were no where to be seen.

[gsmx2]

Many years ago I saw two nuns hitch hiking on an on ramp onto the San Diego Freeway in Long Beach. Still can see that photo in my head.

Last year we were going to see Dave Mason at a small club. Decided NOT to take my camera. Wound up sitting in the FRONT ROW and moving out of the way as people with P&S's took pictures.

[msvirick]

There are so many moments in my life I wish I had a camera on me.
I think I am going to add a baby sister to my Canon 10D with a smaller 4 or 5 megapixel camera I can carry on my pocket, for these occasions I am not carring my 10D and all those lenses.

[Persian-Rice]

Last summer, I had some lady driving in front of me on a highway off ramp suddenly stop with her 7 series bimmer, do a 3 point turn and continue to drive the opposite way on the off-ramp back toward the highway and into oncoming traffic and attempt to do a u-turn back on to the highway..................She never noticed me almost rear ending her and didnt even seem like she had much of any experssion on her face, almost like everything was just normal........

Luckily she didnt hit anyone doing 130kmph. Some people don't deserve to drive. If you are in the Toronto area. I live in Richmond Hill, which should explain it...........

After letting things settle in, I freaken called the cops on the dumbass.........I'm not one to get into others business, but that is an exception.
I love that story, cheers.

[velvetjones]

All the time! Driving, I will see really good light on a subject, or a awesome sunset...and I never have my camera. Then again, I can be ready to shoot pictures and the lighting (outside) is terrible. I would love to just haul it where ever I go but that is too much of a liability.

[Andy_T]

Every monday ...

I have to get up very early to go to the train station to get my train ... the light at 6:00 a.m. is just so wonderful that I would love to get out of the subway to get some pictures ... but then I would miss my train :cry:

So I remind myself to go earlier, next week ... and always forget.

Best regards,
Andy

[SWPhotoImaging]

How about yesterday morning, when I walked into the bedroom, to find the dog in the middle of the bed, surrounded by feathers from the down comforter, feathers swirling around him in the air as he snapped at them, with the cat sitting on the nightstand watching.

He saw me and ran for his life (smart dog).

Still, would have been a keeper of a pic.

[PJ]

OK so I had another moment without camera. although even if i did have it I would not have been able to get the shot. Anyway I was at work and 3 birds flew into the big window at the same time. I laughed my ass off. Oh, and they birds didn't kill themselves either.

Could have made for a nice shot. Perhaps I'll try and bait them with a feeder on the inside of the building and stalk them with my cam tomorrow.
:twisted: :twisted: :twisted:

[PJ]

Hrm there seems to be a trend of me not having my camera recently when something major is going on.

Tonight here in Cincinnati there was a 5 alarm fire mayber 20 min away from where I work. I even thought about bringing my camera in to work tonight but didn't feel like lugging the whole backpack around. Some of you might see it on TV. I think it made National news. On the tele there were all kind of awesome possible silhouette shots. Perhaps this will finally teach me to take the damned thing everywhere I GO.
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