Sometimes it doesn’t matter how much you plan and prepare, things will just go wrong. That was my weekend in general, but in relation to taking photographs today (Sunday) was the day that everything went wrong and no mount of planning and preparing could have changed it.
On Saturday, I charged batteries, packed a camera bag, left hiking boots and clothes out so I could get dressed quickly on my early start. Thinking ahead. I charged a little clip on camera (Insta360 Go2) to capture the deer the keep running out in front of me, and was good to go.
Sunday comes. Up, out get to the moors. It started with the Go2 and the sodding thing not working. The onscreen menu just stuck in a cycle of turning itself on and off. No amount of resets did anything to change it. Fine, that’s ok – I’ll just get on with the photos. But, no. The rear control dial (which I have set up for aperture) has decided it doesn’t want to work. It will work for absolutely everything except changing the aperture. Then, the battery (which is two months old) decided to go flat. Had I walked into some kind of dead spot for technology?
It’s -6 oC and nothing works, so I might as well give in.
Shaun Madill Photography 