R.I.P 10D
(and a merry bloody Christmas to you too!)
C Street, Ventura, California
December 25th, 2008
My camera died today. It was sad. It was going on 5 years old, ancient for a digital camera. I knew it was coming but it was still a bummer. It should not have been a surprise but it was. It went quietly doing what it loves, taking piss-poor out-of-focus under-exposed photo-graphs.
It had a good life, that 10D. It hiked the AT from Vermont through Maine, along with Virginia & parts of Tennessee; crossed 21 states; shot in three countries; went on literally hundreds of climbs from coastal Maine to Joshua Tree; surfed Baja & Big Sur; shot a Presidential inauguration and Michael Jackson's trial; snuck it in to shoot the National Finals Rodeo in Las Vegas and snuck it in to shoot USC Football; was pawned to pay rent; outlasted 8 different lenses; witnessed didgeradoos in J-Tree and shooting stars in the Grand Canyon; shot a wedding in Sedona and an engagement in San Diego; captured many drunken nights by the fire and never complained; it shot the homeless trying to keep warm and black tie red carpet celebs trying to be cool; made it to Panamint City four times without even the tinyest complaint; it lived out of the car without a cush home to rehabilitate in for 8+ months; shot star trails and Mexican hay bails; got banged up and dropped and tussled and scratched and dinged and oops'ed many a times but kept on ticking; and then one Christmas day on the beach it simply stopped. It just shut off never to turn on again. Bummer dude...
(and a merry bloody Christmas to you too!)
C Street, Ventura, California
December 25th, 2008
My camera died today. It was sad. It was going on 5 years old, ancient for a digital camera. I knew it was coming but it was still a bummer. It should not have been a surprise but it was. It went quietly doing what it loves, taking piss-poor out-of-focus under-exposed photo-graphs.
It had a good life, that 10D. It hiked the AT from Vermont through Maine, along with Virginia & parts of Tennessee; crossed 21 states; shot in three countries; went on literally hundreds of climbs from coastal Maine to Joshua Tree; surfed Baja & Big Sur; shot a Presidential inauguration and Michael Jackson's trial; snuck it in to shoot the National Finals Rodeo in Las Vegas and snuck it in to shoot USC Football; was pawned to pay rent; outlasted 8 different lenses; witnessed didgeradoos in J-Tree and shooting stars in the Grand Canyon; shot a wedding in Sedona and an engagement in San Diego; captured many drunken nights by the fire and never complained; it shot the homeless trying to keep warm and black tie red carpet celebs trying to be cool; made it to Panamint City four times without even the tinyest complaint; it lived out of the car without a cush home to rehabilitate in for 8+ months; shot star trails and Mexican hay bails; got banged up and dropped and tussled and scratched and dinged and oops'ed many a times but kept on ticking; and then one Christmas day on the beach it simply stopped. It just shut off never to turn on again. Bummer dude...
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4 comments:
good way to go
Just think it was one lotto ticket away. What is the proper way to dispose of a camera?
it had a good life mister
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