Darren Turner
XProPhotographer
Well you may or may not know but today (17th Jan) was my birthday, had a good day planned, off to Manchester with friends to see family, then off for a nice meal out down town, before returning back to wales at the end of a very long tiring day.
Stopped off at Jessops on the way in Wrexham to pick up a new camera bag (was bought as a birthday present) in the shape of a Lowepro flipside 400, must admit its brilliant, so lightweight it untrue. So loaded all me gear into it and carried off to Manchester.
Got to mums, opened my cards & prezzies and had a good chat, before I headed into Manchester city centre for some photo therapy. Was doing really well, bag was well comfortable on the back, was getting loads of street photos, using canon 7D & 70-200, and my fuji x10. After about 2 hours and tons of mooching about it was time for a cuppa. I then notice my shoe lace needed doing so leaned forward…………now the next part to this story was a bit of a blur, I don’t remember much apart for a heart wrenching slow motions style sickly feeling as my canon slid off my shoulder as I leaned forward to tie my lace, THUD as my cam hit the concrete floor ………….i think I really did stop breathing for a moment or 2, before casually picking camera up and walking off, I found a quiet place to examine the camera, which seemed fine, PHEW, then lens however is reallllly poorly, the plastic rim near front element was squeegeed quite badly I guess that took full force, no probs I can live with this, the front element was fine, I then discovered the zoom ring was Very tight to move…………….GUTTED, it did however still work, but there was obviously something really wrong, I nearly honestly cried, birthday or no birthday I was heading to local train station to jump under the next tram lol.
I sat down and gathered my thought for an hour before realising I never renewed my camera insurance…………GUTTED take 2………I eventually decided to take it into local camera shop which is London camera exchange, so they have sent it off for me for inspection to see if it can be repaired I soooooooooooo hope it can and reasonable cost as it cost me £1700. GULP so will just have to wait and see.
Now it was time to go for tea and meet up with everyone, we booked in to “Red Hot World Buffet” in town, 7 of us, I have never been before but It was brilliant, they serve food buffet style form Indian, oriental, English, Italian, tex mex, it truly is good place to dine with plenty for everyone. After dinner the waiter brought me a birthday cake with candles, and a restaurant seating around 300 people all sung happy birthday, I was soooooo embarrassed, apparently it was my nephews idea………ickle git.
I opened some more prezzies, 1 being a cokin ND filter kit that I had wanted for soooo long so I am pretty dam chuffed & can’t wait to play with it.
I just got back home now at 12 midnight its been a long day, with plenty of good and not so good points. I just gotta sort out todays 366 then its bed time.
Sorry for boring you to death here but I just had to share my day with you.
O 1 more thing, this could possibly (hopefully not) be the last photo i take with me beloved 70-200 F2.8 IS L MK 2
Daz
Stopped off at Jessops on the way in Wrexham to pick up a new camera bag (was bought as a birthday present) in the shape of a Lowepro flipside 400, must admit its brilliant, so lightweight it untrue. So loaded all me gear into it and carried off to Manchester.
Got to mums, opened my cards & prezzies and had a good chat, before I headed into Manchester city centre for some photo therapy. Was doing really well, bag was well comfortable on the back, was getting loads of street photos, using canon 7D & 70-200, and my fuji x10. After about 2 hours and tons of mooching about it was time for a cuppa. I then notice my shoe lace needed doing so leaned forward…………now the next part to this story was a bit of a blur, I don’t remember much apart for a heart wrenching slow motions style sickly feeling as my canon slid off my shoulder as I leaned forward to tie my lace, THUD as my cam hit the concrete floor ………….i think I really did stop breathing for a moment or 2, before casually picking camera up and walking off, I found a quiet place to examine the camera, which seemed fine, PHEW, then lens however is reallllly poorly, the plastic rim near front element was squeegeed quite badly I guess that took full force, no probs I can live with this, the front element was fine, I then discovered the zoom ring was Very tight to move…………….GUTTED, it did however still work, but there was obviously something really wrong, I nearly honestly cried, birthday or no birthday I was heading to local train station to jump under the next tram lol.
I sat down and gathered my thought for an hour before realising I never renewed my camera insurance…………GUTTED take 2………I eventually decided to take it into local camera shop which is London camera exchange, so they have sent it off for me for inspection to see if it can be repaired I soooooooooooo hope it can and reasonable cost as it cost me £1700. GULP so will just have to wait and see.
Now it was time to go for tea and meet up with everyone, we booked in to “Red Hot World Buffet” in town, 7 of us, I have never been before but It was brilliant, they serve food buffet style form Indian, oriental, English, Italian, tex mex, it truly is good place to dine with plenty for everyone. After dinner the waiter brought me a birthday cake with candles, and a restaurant seating around 300 people all sung happy birthday, I was soooooo embarrassed, apparently it was my nephews idea………ickle git.
I opened some more prezzies, 1 being a cokin ND filter kit that I had wanted for soooo long so I am pretty dam chuffed & can’t wait to play with it.
I just got back home now at 12 midnight its been a long day, with plenty of good and not so good points. I just gotta sort out todays 366 then its bed time.
Sorry for boring you to death here but I just had to share my day with you.
O 1 more thing, this could possibly (hopefully not) be the last photo i take with me beloved 70-200 F2.8 IS L MK 2
Daz
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