The Best Photo I Didn't Take
May 16, 2012 22:27:22 #
Mine was a couple of weeks ago... I was getting gear out of the truck & heard clopping and a "wuff" noise. Turned around & there was a 6 pt white-tail buck about 10 feet away. He hopped a fence & trotted off behind a building before I could get out the blasted camera. I walked around the building a few minutes later muttering under my breath & WOW! there he was! He watched me slowly bring camera up and "click". Dead battery. Moral of story: check battery before I leave home. Make sure charged battery is in camera, not my pocket..
May 16, 2012 22:37:57 #
cableguy
Loc: Germantown Hills, IL
Was traveling South on HWY 95 in Idaho when this very large mule deer (buck) with a big rack strolled down the road looking for an escape up the hillside. I could not stop due to no turnout (2-lane) and traffic. He just strolled past my car and turned and disappeared into the trees. Camera was beside me but noway I could stop and take pic.
May 16, 2012 22:40:57 #
Driving home from work, off to the side of the road - a hilly field of emerald green grass bisected with a tiny stream (more like a ditch, really) with ever so slight whisps of fog drifting up. . . the ight from the setting sun turning the water to molten gold. Of course my camera was at home.
May 16, 2012 22:56:43 #
Years ago my wife and I visited Disney World and because it was hot and we would be walking all day I didn't take a camera. For lunch we stopped at a small picnic area. There were a few picnic tables and a lot of birds looking for handouts. At one picnic table, well away from the others, sat a young couple, close to each other, holding their food close to them. At the other end of the table sat a very large Vulture staring at them the whole time they ate.
May 16, 2012 23:29:05 #
One time I was going out of town using the tollway. As I passed under a highway bridge, I looked up on the road above me and saw a car on fire with a woman standing a short distance away looking at her car burning. The captions that could have been added to that picture could have been unlimited. After that I started carrying a small point and shoot with me all the time. Because of that I got the following shot. I would love to find the woman in this photo and give her the shot that I took of her
I should have stayed in bed.
May 16, 2012 23:38:58 #
planepics wrote:
Sounds like he was probably on a side-step ILS (In... (show quote)
Have you read the remarkable story of the Gimli Glider? Google it. It makes the Hudson River emergency landing look like a picnic. I have seen ten air crashes (I was in Naval Aviation for 20 years) and one I wish I had a camera for was in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. An F-8 Crusader from a VC squadron there took off with a banner in tow...full afterburner, halfway down the runway, then up...up...up...
into the clouds. Ooops, the banner came fluttering down through the cloud, followed by a loud BOOM, and we knew something had happened. Next, the F-8 fluttered like a leaf into the sea...
wait...wait...finally, the parachute. The guy survived.
Following is a picture I did get, driving my car as I was overtaken by the storm front...shoved my hand out the window (no use of viewfinder) and snapped. That fast.
May 17, 2012 01:00:05 #
twindad wrote:
A couple of years ago I was heading south from Chi... (show quote)
There's a farm in mid-Ohio, south of Lima but north of Troy, sitting up on a rather tall west-side hill with a creek splitting grasslands than run down toward I-75. It typically has cows, a small John Deere, a couple old pickup trucks and old farm equipment sitting around the beautiful big red barn that is reasonably well maintained. When there was snow it was even more photographic. Although I lived just north of Ohio at the time, I rarely got down that way - maybe once or twice a year. But when I did I was in a hurry and my trip was business-related. Each time I'd once again think about how I wished I had my camera with me but didn't as I passed by. The next time I was headed down that way again, I had completely forgotten about the farm and didn't take my camera again. I'd say I passed that place 35 times in my life and didn't capture it even once. Embarrassingly forgetful!
May 17, 2012 01:17:16 #
interesting story. The most worthless things when flying are the runway behind you, the sky above you and the fuel you left on the ground. I don't see any storm pic.
May 17, 2012 02:20:40 #
Camerahand
Loc: Huntsville, Tennessee
2 Dog Don wrote:
I have wanted to take pictures of longhorn cattle. Was visiting family in TN and was told a farm just down the road had a heard of them. Got caught up in a movie and forgot about it. Had to leave next morning before light! Aghhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!
Would that have been near Oneida, Tennessee (Scott County)?
A friend has longhorns in Scott County. Just wondering.
Burton
May 17, 2012 03:49:33 #
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