On Tuesday I tripped and fell. I am banged up and sore on my right side, and my head hitting the corner is what stopped me from sliding further, but nothing broken, at least on my body. My camera didn’t fare as well though. Or I’ll say my camera body seems to be in working order except for some scrapes along the side and bottom, but my favorite lens (and actually the first lens I ever got) 18-200mm, is in pretty bad shape and appears to be unfixable. This is the fifth time I have tripped and fallen! It is such a horrible feeling and I can remember each time like it just happened.
So that’s the bad, and here’s what good am I getting out of this. After the shock of it all wore off, my mind was going a mile a minute accessing everything. My plan is to get a new, different updated lens. I could put the new lens on either my d7000 or my d5500. I could get a 70-300mm (one I have wanted) and put it on the d5500 or I could get a 150-600 mm and put it on the 7000 and put the 400mm I have now on the d5500 when I want to use it. I’ve already checked out these lenses before, so I shouldn’t have too much research to do. I might be able to work out getting both of them!
The times of the sunsets and sunrises are changing quickly now. After dinner last night, I thought I’d have some time to go to a few places nearby for the golden hour, but by the time I got there, light was fading fast! I took my little infrared camera along. I am always glad when I remember to take it, because . . ., just because.
New plantings . . .
Here’s a panorama I did of the new plantings at the recently opened addition of Robinson Preserve. They had closed that part of the preserve for about 10 days so they could get heavy equipment in there to work freely in the planting of all these palm trees. The day before they closed, I had driven in and saw huge piles of trees and another huge pile of the support stakes, so I kind of knew what would be coming.
They opened it back up a few days ago and I wanted to see what they had done. When I drove in and saw the sky and all the great reflections, etc., I knew I wanted to take some IR pictures and make a panorama.
(click on the picture to get a much more dramatic view!)