Worst time to leave your camera at home!

B Rock

Just wondering about your guys worst time that you left your camera at home and wish you had it.

I work at a car dealership that is in the same parking lot as a Costco store. Today a heavily armed bank robber decided to stake out at Costco. We had the Dallas SWAT there as well as 100's of cops. I had a perfect view of all the action from the roof of our car dealership. And the one day I left my camera at home!!!! I'm so angry!

Share some of your stories.

JavaLover

I don't know if it's the worst time or I'm just unlucky, but we have wild horses by my house and they always seem to know when I do and don't have my camera. When I do have my camera they are just out of reach. When I don't have my camera they are really close!

anwmn1

JavaLover wrote:

I don't know if it's the worst time or I'm just unlucky, but we have wild horses by my house and they always seem to know when I do and don't have my camera. When I do have my camera they are just out of reach. When I don't have my camera they are really close!

Same horses- same problem. Those wild horses are smart out here!!

Had a fantastic chance to catch them on a trot in perfect light and did not have the camera. :bash

JavaLover

anwmn1 wrote:

Same horses- same problem. Those wild horses are smart out here!!

Had a fantastic chance to catch them on a trot in perfect light and did not have the camera. :bash

Glad it's not just me, I was starting to get a complex.

DJT

Was on the way to Church and I was suppose to take pictures of the kids singing. I had my camera bag, but the darn camera wasn't in it.

Also another time, I was taking pictures of a cousins wedding. It was a 2 hour drive, well... 1 hour into it I saw something to take a photo of. Um.... no stick in the camera. That was the fastest 3 hour drive.

Have I learned my lesson. Not quite. Forgot to take my wifes battery charger for her point and shoot with us to Viet Nam. :cry

Tdcompton

Well my story is "the worst time to leave a site"... I was standing at Jump #5 at Rolex Kentucky this year and then decided to head to the finish box and get some shots there... Right after I left the biggest accident of the day occured, maybe that seems gruesome, but I would've liked to have that shot.

tsk1979

2 times actually.
1.
Near my workplace an Earthmover was cleaning some debris(garbage actually which is often dumped on roadsides in India), and there was a huge male bull nearby.
As soon as the earthmover started(it was that big JCB) the bull started bull fighting with the earthmover.
At one instant it was head to head.
The Bull had the feet locked to the ground, and the earthmover guy pushed forward, and the bulls feet were draggin on the soft mud.
Then again the bull let go, built momentum and whacked into the front again and again, It was only after around 15 minutes he conceded defeat
2.
At a busy traffic intersection our light turned green, but then the whole traffic stopped, the reason, two bulls started bull fighting in the middle of the intersection.
It was night so my cell phone camera was useless, but with 50mm 1.8 and my 350D I would have gotten some amazing shots.

faye

I had my camera, but....

We were visiting beautiful Tallulah Gorge in North Georgia and had descended the gazillion steps to the suspension bridge. The moment I stepped onto the bridge and raised my camera to capture Nature's beauty... my battery died and my backup was in the car - at the top of all those stairs! Ack! :cry

TrulyAlaskan

Where do I begin?

The other day we went for a "quick trip to the store" I went to bring my camera bag, she said "you don't need it".... we saw 2 bull moose playing tug-o-war with a string of xmas lights.

#2 - I *thought* I had brought the camera with me, as I was driving up the hill to one of the ski resorts (to catch some turns before work) a beautiful lynx comes and runs out on the road, perches on the guardrail (like he was posing) and waits... Frantically I grab for the camera.... it's not in the bag

#3 - The time JAL came in with an engine on fire.... my co-worker got the shot... my camera was at home.

#4 - The best one.... When a FLIGHT of B25's did a low approach over the airport... my camera was nowhere to be found... They were 200' off the deck.

cpagility

I went to the Dodger v Philly playoff game the other night and had AMAZING seats. We were about 12 rows above the Dodger on deck circle at field level. I had brought my G9 because I didn't feel like bringing my 40D and 70-200 lens. What a MISTAKE. To make it worse the G9 battery died about 1/2 way through the game. I'm also now very familiar with the reason for complaints on the G9 when you up the ISO :-( I did get some shots but nothing even close to what I could have gotten with my other camera.

Karen

jdryan3

Our group F4 was in Chinle (Navajo Nation) on our way to Moab, when we pulled up to the Shell gas station at the corner. With a donkey standing there in the gas station, just hanging out. And all the gear in the back packed up. :

I carried a camera on my lap for most of the rest of the trip.:photo

KD5NRH

B Rock wrote:

Just wondering about your guys worst time that you left your camera at home and wish you had it.

Point & shoots cheap enough to live in the car are a wonderful thing...

ChatKat

Not the only one
Driving down the street about 3 years ago with my husband following me. We'd just picked up his car from the dealership. About a mile from my house I saw what I though was a stray big dog and pulled the car over planning to let it in. That was no dog. That was a baby California Brown Bear cub. Called the police. My husband saw my car at the side of the road and hopped out to see why - the bear was on my passenger side right at the window. It ran right in front of the stopped car and went into some open space. The bear was captured by Dept of Fish and Wildlife and put back in the forest. I wish I could have taken a photo. It was 3 feet away.