... another lesson

We are never to old to learn, though there are some of us who do not subscribe to that, and I find it interesting whenever I have to update my thinking and modus operandi. Update here is different to the continuous update one does as a matter of living a full and richly enable LIFE with a focus on GOD and his greatness. I will not digress from photography today and so will not mention the 'split personality' most of us sane people exhibit, nor about the 'possession' and 'psychic' or 'psychologically' infected and afflicted who perpetrate criminality in our country, that is for my spaces.live.com blog later. GOD is good all the time, and to the day 4 weeks after the burglary I have my replacement camera batteries and I am good to go again.

All photographers have spare camera batteries. One does not go out to shoot without a spare battery pack because Murphy will coop you, and just when you set up on that once in a lifetime perfect shot and press the shutter button .. BAM!!! nothing ... the battery is dead. And by time you change the battery, it is lost forever. Show me a photographer who has never been here. Win some, loose some, that is life. The next question is, how many batteries should you have? I learnt that for the Canon EOS-5D Mk2, which I am dreaming about, six [6] batteries is the 'norm' as the camera is designed to electronically track them all. So I now have six [6] batteries ... in anticipation.

This duplication and redundancy is nothing new because as photographers some of us use the Western Digital Passport Essential for storage and typically we should have at least three [3] drives, which are stored in three [3] different downtown bank vaults, for best safety and security. Losing all your 1.8 million images in a hard drive crash is no laughing matter. That could be 10 years of your photographic life. CLICK!!!. BAM!!! Gone, looking for you in your parallel reality. I am keeping my images in this reality.

The storage and batteries are cheap and necessary, but some of us do not thing that about a second backup camera. Cameras are reliable and the shutter, which is usually the weak link, is rated in millions of operations, but dust, sand and moisture have absolutely no respect for any camera users, more so in this hot, dry and dusty environments. And even though Murphy is vacationing [with you], he is also on the job 24x7, to discombobulate you and steal your joy at any and all cost. So have your contingency plan, camera B ... hidden away from Murphy, if you can. Camera B should be a mirror of camera A, but some photographers think not. I am an old geyser so I can't have two different sets of camera controls to tangle with, but it is okay for the young folks ...

So I have taken a few new things on board ... and better late than never, In addition I will not store all my spare camera batteries in the same place. "Don't put all you eggs in one basket" is the old adage, but these days of earthquake and tsunami I am not sure if that will save them .. if the eggs are in a vacuum sealed "glad lock" plastic bag you may be able at least to rescue the shell from the albumen and yolk. Life does not send us the same experience twice, unless we did not learn from the last ... so I am now looking for a StarGate ...

I am back in biz ...

Above and below, the view from the F.T. Williams Highway standing on the culvert for Westbourne Ghaut which runs pass Fry's Village, Greenlands, and down Westbourne Street into the Basseterre Bay, just West of the inter island Ferry Pier and Terminal.
Below, this Saturday afternoon AA flight prepares to depart the Robert L. Bradshaw International Airport.
Below, Saturday afternoon traffic on the F. T. Williams Highway. Image just 4 months ago all this traffic had to pass through the City, now it just flows around it.
Below, a Saturday afternoon Cane fire. The word is that it is a 'controlled burn', and if that is the 'official' statement, then so be it.

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