Thursday, January 10, 2008

Learning A Lesson the Hard Way

There was a beautiful sunrise while I was driving to work yesterday. Very nice pastel colours and so very calming. I wasn't going to stop as I was running a little late for work until I saw a couple black spots cross the road up ahead.

I got up closer and saw that it was two coyotes that had crossed the road and were heading across what is a corn field in the summer. I pulled over - to hell with getting to work on time, a few minutes late for a shot like this is worth it - and pulled out the K10D and put my 50-200 lens on. I got out and the coyotes were still close. I got everything composed nicely with both coyotes and the beautiful sunrise starting to spill across the field.

I depressed the shutter button and immediately looked to the screen to see if what I had was good enough. I noticed a funny symbol overlaying the shot. What the hell is that? Then the words:

No card in camera

damn it, damn it, damn it.

I had left my card back in the card reader attached to my computer at home.

So it was off to Walmart to pick up a couple extra SD cards to carry in my camera bag.

The coyotes? Well I guess they sensed I was no threat and just kept on ambling across the field. I swear I heard a laugh.

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