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The Day I Almost Got My Camera Stolen Because of Irresponsibility (Day 16 of 365)
I've begun a Photo a Day project, you can view and read about it here.
So, as I said in yesterday's post, we, being Aimee, Jay and I went down to Irvine to go to the Canon Repair Center because Jay was having some line issues for noise compensation I believe. I don't know the correct term, but he was getting lines like a bitch from his sensor, at like barely iso 500. So we head down there around 4:15 pm and arrive at around 5:30. If any of you, which I know most of you do, live in the Los Angeles area, traffic is a bitch. So, we decided to go to the Irvine Spectrum and kill a few hours while the traffic dies down. I've never been to the Irvine Spectrum, but wow. I mean wow. What a humungous place. Goodness, I had to walk around that place so many times. You'll know why in just a second. So, we end up going to eat at Corner Bakery while waiting for Role Models the movie to begin at the Edwards, I believe. I, of course have my camera bag on me and I put it around the chair that I was sitting at. Above us, the fan was spinning so Aimee wanted to move. We moved up one table. So we eat dinner which was amazing by the way. If any of you have never been to Corner Bakery, I suggest you go. The best 7 dollar meals ever. And then after we had back to the car to kill some more time. And as we are sitting in the car we keep seeing security guards drive by for some reason. It's so weird. Also, one thing that we did see was this Asian lady get lost trying to find her daughter, that was interesting because we saw them again later throughout the car experience when she found her daughter. It was quite entertaining. It's been about 15 minutes and we're walking towards the movie theatre, which was when I realized, or thought I realized that I left my camera bag in my car. I head back, and open the back seat and my bag is nowhere to be found. My heart starts pumping and I run back to Aimee and Jay, and tell them that I'm going to head back to Corner Bakery. I go to Corner Bakery and they said they haven't seen it. I look on the ground and make the people that were sitting in our seats get up so I can see. Still not there. So, I'm beginning to tear up a bit, thoughts were running through my head. What I had in my camera bag was a Canon 5D, Canon EF 100mm f/2.8, Canon EF 20mm f/2.8, and a Canon EF 50mm f/1.4. A lot of money for a 19 year old to be carrying around on his back. I was having thoughts about using just film (because I have 2 film cameras at home) and saving up for really nice lenses. I was thinking about Christmas and how I won't be buying anyone anything. It was some pretty terrible thoughts. So I walk all the way to the front where security is. Which is an extremely far walk from Corner Bakery. They haven't seen it. We call every store around and none of them have seen it. By this time I walk out of the Security Facility and definitely feeling terrible thinking to myself how ridiculously irresponsible I am. Just as I am walking back to the car I get a call from Corner Bakery and they have found my bag!!!! And guess where it was, the table behind the one we were sitting at because we moved before. : ) How crazy. I was completely overwhelmed with joy. As well as anger at myself for doing this to. It was a mixture of emotions. I'm still very shaken up by the whole experience to be honest. I've definitely learned my lesson though.
Continuing now about the photo, I'm walking back to the car and I see this extremely interesting security cameras. So, naturally, I start taking pictures of the security camera because it looks fantastic with the repetition in the background.
As I sit in my car, with Aimee in the front seat and Jay in the back seat telling me all the ideas of fundraisers and parties and ideas on somehow organizing a way to get me a new camera and some lenses, we see 7 security cars drive up around our car. The security guard comes out and asks me if I have a professional camera and if I've been taking pictures of the parking lot. Supposedly they have a no photography policy in the parking structure because of copyright issues. He told me, "You can take pictures of your friends, but you can't take pictures directly at the buildings." What a crazy night. I was scared shitless and still completely shocked that I actually have my camera. I thought we were getting arrested. 7 security cars! I can't believe that. For photography. Ridiculous.
By the way, this TTV texture in this photograph was originally DLSDesigns. He came up with the wonderful idea here.
The Day I Almost Got My Camera Stolen Because of Irresponsibility (Day 16 of 365)
I've begun a Photo a Day project, you can view and read about it here.
So, as I said in yesterday's post, we, being Aimee, Jay and I went down to Irvine to go to the Canon Repair Center because Jay was having some line issues for noise compensation I believe. I don't know the correct term, but he was getting lines like a bitch from his sensor, at like barely iso 500. So we head down there around 4:15 pm and arrive at around 5:30. If any of you, which I know most of you do, live in the Los Angeles area, traffic is a bitch. So, we decided to go to the Irvine Spectrum and kill a few hours while the traffic dies down. I've never been to the Irvine Spectrum, but wow. I mean wow. What a humungous place. Goodness, I had to walk around that place so many times. You'll know why in just a second. So, we end up going to eat at Corner Bakery while waiting for Role Models the movie to begin at the Edwards, I believe. I, of course have my camera bag on me and I put it around the chair that I was sitting at. Above us, the fan was spinning so Aimee wanted to move. We moved up one table. So we eat dinner which was amazing by the way. If any of you have never been to Corner Bakery, I suggest you go. The best 7 dollar meals ever. And then after we had back to the car to kill some more time. And as we are sitting in the car we keep seeing security guards drive by for some reason. It's so weird. Also, one thing that we did see was this Asian lady get lost trying to find her daughter, that was interesting because we saw them again later throughout the car experience when she found her daughter. It was quite entertaining. It's been about 15 minutes and we're walking towards the movie theatre, which was when I realized, or thought I realized that I left my camera bag in my car. I head back, and open the back seat and my bag is nowhere to be found. My heart starts pumping and I run back to Aimee and Jay, and tell them that I'm going to head back to Corner Bakery. I go to Corner Bakery and they said they haven't seen it. I look on the ground and make the people that were sitting in our seats get up so I can see. Still not there. So, I'm beginning to tear up a bit, thoughts were running through my head. What I had in my camera bag was a Canon 5D, Canon EF 100mm f/2.8, Canon EF 20mm f/2.8, and a Canon EF 50mm f/1.4. A lot of money for a 19 year old to be carrying around on his back. I was having thoughts about using just film (because I have 2 film cameras at home) and saving up for really nice lenses. I was thinking about Christmas and how I won't be buying anyone anything. It was some pretty terrible thoughts. So I walk all the way to the front where security is. Which is an extremely far walk from Corner Bakery. They haven't seen it. We call every store around and none of them have seen it. By this time I walk out of the Security Facility and definitely feeling terrible thinking to myself how ridiculously irresponsible I am. Just as I am walking back to the car I get a call from Corner Bakery and they have found my bag!!!! And guess where it was, the table behind the one we were sitting at because we moved before. : ) How crazy. I was completely overwhelmed with joy. As well as anger at myself for doing this to. It was a mixture of emotions. I'm still very shaken up by the whole experience to be honest. I've definitely learned my lesson though.
Continuing now about the photo, I'm walking back to the car and I see this extremely interesting security cameras. So, naturally, I start taking pictures of the security camera because it looks fantastic with the repetition in the background.
As I sit in my car, with Aimee in the front seat and Jay in the back seat telling me all the ideas of fundraisers and parties and ideas on somehow organizing a way to get me a new camera and some lenses, we see 7 security cars drive up around our car. The security guard comes out and asks me if I have a professional camera and if I've been taking pictures of the parking lot. Supposedly they have a no photography policy in the parking structure because of copyright issues. He told me, "You can take pictures of your friends, but you can't take pictures directly at the buildings." What a crazy night. I was scared shitless and still completely shocked that I actually have my camera. I thought we were getting arrested. 7 security cars! I can't believe that. For photography. Ridiculous.
By the way, this TTV texture in this photograph was originally DLSDesigns. He came up with the wonderful idea here.