At the going down of the sun and in the morning...
We will remember them.
Remembrance Sunday 2017.
I have the utmost respect for those that have have given their lives for freedom and in some respects I should not maybe post the account that follows, but time restraints the rest of the week prevents my writing in detail.
So, this is the ‘final’ photo that I shot this day and I will go on now to explain the disaster and learning point. I’ve had my work appraisal this week and between that and how busy work is generally I’ve not had time to write up my Flickr appraisal learning point.
As some of you might be aware we had gone away last weekend for the end of the children’s half term holiday. I knew on the Wednesday night that the battery was low, but that I had Thursday morning to charge it up, which I duly did ( amidst the various other things a wife does when she has a morning off and knows the family are going away that afternoon). So, slotted the battery into the charger, plugged the charger into the mains turned main, observed that the light was doing it’s single pulse thing that it does when it is pretty flat and off I went to deal with the washing ( it is obviously my other obsession ;) ) and left it without further thought.
On returning a while later the light was still pulsing away and hadn’t turned the green that it is supposed to, but as there were other things to be done I thought that it was still going. Anyway, it got to leaving time and it was still not charged! By this time it really had plenty of time and as we were about to leave the house I just unplugged the charger and took the battery and away to go. What a fool I was! As by that evening the battery was flashing low on my camera and I didn’t fully understand it, was it that it was cold? Was it that the battery’s life was on its way out?
Anyway that evenings sunset was evidently developing into one of those that you want to savour and enjoy, so out I went, caught the bad hair day tree in front of the setting sun and the distant copse of trees ( yet to appear), all as the hors d’oeuvres to the setting sun or so I thought. As I took this one the camera clunked and then shut down. My heart sank, tried again turned the camera on, clunk turned off. Turned the camera on again, no juice.
I was so disappointed and made worse by the fact that the sun and clouds then proceeded to produce a wonderful display of true brilliance. When I got home I checked the charger, I had not made sure that the connection between the lead and the actual charging unit was secure!
Lessons for my appraisal? Always check kit, fully, if you’ve go the space to take the charger take it and consider buying a second battery. All lessons that you hardened pros know I know, but newbie that I am just learnt the hard way!
Thanks for stopping.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning...
We will remember them.
Remembrance Sunday 2017.
I have the utmost respect for those that have have given their lives for freedom and in some respects I should not maybe post the account that follows, but time restraints the rest of the week prevents my writing in detail.
So, this is the ‘final’ photo that I shot this day and I will go on now to explain the disaster and learning point. I’ve had my work appraisal this week and between that and how busy work is generally I’ve not had time to write up my Flickr appraisal learning point.
As some of you might be aware we had gone away last weekend for the end of the children’s half term holiday. I knew on the Wednesday night that the battery was low, but that I had Thursday morning to charge it up, which I duly did ( amidst the various other things a wife does when she has a morning off and knows the family are going away that afternoon). So, slotted the battery into the charger, plugged the charger into the mains turned main, observed that the light was doing it’s single pulse thing that it does when it is pretty flat and off I went to deal with the washing ( it is obviously my other obsession ;) ) and left it without further thought.
On returning a while later the light was still pulsing away and hadn’t turned the green that it is supposed to, but as there were other things to be done I thought that it was still going. Anyway, it got to leaving time and it was still not charged! By this time it really had plenty of time and as we were about to leave the house I just unplugged the charger and took the battery and away to go. What a fool I was! As by that evening the battery was flashing low on my camera and I didn’t fully understand it, was it that it was cold? Was it that the battery’s life was on its way out?
Anyway that evenings sunset was evidently developing into one of those that you want to savour and enjoy, so out I went, caught the bad hair day tree in front of the setting sun and the distant copse of trees ( yet to appear), all as the hors d’oeuvres to the setting sun or so I thought. As I took this one the camera clunked and then shut down. My heart sank, tried again turned the camera on, clunk turned off. Turned the camera on again, no juice.
I was so disappointed and made worse by the fact that the sun and clouds then proceeded to produce a wonderful display of true brilliance. When I got home I checked the charger, I had not made sure that the connection between the lead and the actual charging unit was secure!
Lessons for my appraisal? Always check kit, fully, if you’ve go the space to take the charger take it and consider buying a second battery. All lessons that you hardened pros know I know, but newbie that I am just learnt the hard way!
Thanks for stopping.