Hello all,
I apologise for my tardiness in keeping up with all of your wonderful
replies - all I can do is blame it on the fact that today was shopping day
and I had to screaming kids begging me to take them to Macca's for "happy
meals".
However, I digress, and as such I must now revert back to the tragedy of
today. Actually, multiple tragedies really, so here goes....
So we went to M'Donalds - just me and my two toddlers. Had a nice lunch and
decided to go up to our local tourist lookout for a walk. Being a nice day,
naturally, I chose to take with me my trusty third baby (my other two are
human), my PZ-1P. <Warning, the following may be distressing for some
readers, and especially the author> We got to the top and it was almost
sunset, so I thought, hey, why don't I set up my tripod and take some
selfportraits of myself and my boys with the sunset behind us. Hmmm, so far
so good. Tripod set up, cable release set up, smile, snap! smile, snap! a
couple of nice pics for sure. Of course after two photos, my almost three
year old (my oldest), decided to make a bolt for it categorically stating
that he wanted to "play in park, no more pottos mum". With that, he bolted
down the path of the lookout. Me being a normal, concerned mum, tried to
grab him for fear of him falling over the 50ft cliff on the other side of
the walkway, whilst trying to hold my other baby (aged 16 months) and
untangle myself from my cable release at the same time. I am almost too
upset to even type this, but, alas, I shall continue, if not to console
myself, then to at least make somebody out there feel some morsel of pity
for me! The following moments were like one of those slow motion scenes out
of a movie where all the sound gets blurred and somebody yells out
"nooooooo" whilst trying fruitlessly to prevent a tragedy from happening.
Well, today, I was that somebody and my tragedy did happen. Lets just say
that my Pz-1p, complete with sigma 28-80 macro zoom, pentax cable release,
achiever 630af flash and (crappy) vanguard tripod, all went a tumbling
straight over the cliff face. About 10 seconds and 50ft later, I opened up
my eyes (after all of the crashing and smashing sounds had stopped) to find
debris scattered down the cliff face at a huge variety of intervals. I am
so devastated, that camera was indeed my baby. I can't buy anything else
this year (except maybe something pretty cheap and nasty), as we are
building a house and I start Uni next year which will be expensive, so now,
I am stuck with nothing but an MZ-50. (Despite my previous claims that I
have a Pt-30, I was actually exagerrating a little in the assumption that I
would win an auction that I was bidding for it on. In a wonderful climax to
my day, I arrived home to find that I had been outbidded, and the auction
had ended while I was trying to climb down the cliff and rescue my little
black pieces of metal and glass that were once a very expensive camera.)! I
am in a severe state of shock and mourning, I sure hope some of you guys
have some miraculous words of comfort....BTW, I had only had the PZ-1p since
Christmas, after I saved for two months to buy the thing! So, can anybody
hazard a guess at which item (apart from the cable release which didn't have
a scratch on it) survived this travesty? The crappy Achiever Flash, of
course! I must have done something really bad in a past life to deserve
such torture......I will never again enjoy a "happy" meal......
:-(
Tanya.
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