About a week ago I left my Canon G-9 in a restaurant and didn't miss it until I got home. Oh well.... That's life. It gives me the opportunity to buy a new camera and let me tell you I love my G-9 and when I unpacked my new one today I felt like lost child just came home.
The exposure to loss could be lessen by leaving it at home and in the box. But not me. I have that camera with me everywhere and if I don't I have my Nikon D-200 with me.
The G-9 is a great camera and really is a pleasure to shoot with.
I chose it because it shot RAW. But it does so much more.
Most of my street photography is shot with the G-9. It is less intrusive in public, I can shoot from the hip, as it were, and I can shoot from the car with out having to put it to my eye and block my view. I do have a rule that I never hold up traffic by shooting a picture, unless it is such a great shot I can't help it.
There is so much going on in the world to be a photographer and not be able to react to the moment and capture some slice of time.
I was on a ferry in Washington and had left my camera in the car on the lower deck and we came around a corner and I will never forget the scene, the sun was setting and there was a light house with a little red house next to it and the light was coming in low from the West lighting the face of the lighthouse. It was perfect and me with no camera. I went nuts. Now I will say that I have that picture in my mind better because I couldn't take a picture but it was perfect it's the one that got away. So today I am allowing myself to shoot freely and without much reserve. I get some good stuff and often get lucky.
Keep shooting and leave a note and let me know some one is reading this.
David
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