Friday, 9 January 2009

Everyone Is Out To Mug Me!

One of my many limitations as a photographer is that if I am out in public with my camera I think that everyone is a potential mugger ready to wrestle me to the ground and rip my, frankly, average camera from around my neck.

I spend a lot of time in London but due to this irrational concern I spend lots of time in my car, driving around thinking "that would make a nice shot" but not venturing out with my camera to get the shot.

Yesterday I saw a diminutive guy (compared to me at 6'2" and 95 KG) out in London boldly sporting an expensive Nikon for all to see (may have been a D90 or D300 or something). I got to thinking "there is a guy half my size with a camera twice as good as mine. If he can do it then so can I." Needless to say I saw lots of great potential shots through the car window on the way home. Not one made it to my SD card!

Please cure me with your stories and advice!

1 comment:

  1. Put on your Nike's and grab the camera (it has not to be a N D300) and walk, walk, walk...then you will have ALL the shots you have seen trough your car window on your SD card, believe me.:)

    And it is still the photographer "who sees the picture and pushes the button" and it's not the camera that makes a good picture, right? :)

    Sue's Daily Photography

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