At work, we had a 2 hour picnic lunch to celebrate Ben's upcoming wedding, which was fun. It was also Bobby's birthday, his 35th. (We'll be celebrating next week sometime.) I left work at 5:45ish to head up to Methuen to celebrate my papa's 85th birthday. We had a really nice time.
A few minutes before I left, I went to the bathroom and washed and dried my hands. I took my little Canon out of my pocket and turned it on, because I was going to take a picture of something in the kitchen for my photo of the day. Gram had these beautiful flowers that Jesse had given her a few days earlier for Mother's Day, I figured that's what I'd take. The camera just flew out of my hands (they weren't still wet or anything, I was just super clumsy) and hit the floor with force. If it hadn't been on, I actually think it probably would've been fine, but it was on and the zoom lens bent and wouldn't retreat back into the camera when I turned it off. The camera still take pictures, but they all look like this - these are the beautiful flowers I was talking about:
I was going to take it to Hunts in Melrose to see if they could fix it, but the camera is 4 years old. I brought it home and fiddled with it to see if I could unbend the lens (thinking that maybe the problem was just that) but after playing around with it a bit I am pretty sure that something inside the lens broke when it hit the floor.
I was pretty devastated because even though I have an SLR, it's huge and terrible to lug around on a daily basis. It's a vacation/special event camera, not something I can have on me every day. It was also so expensive that I worry about it when I take it out, I can't have it away from my person for a split second without serious anxiety. So it's definitely not something I'd bring to work or leave in my car while running an errand.
Anyway, I was really sad, so when I decided that it was dead, I pulled out the memory card and downloaded all of the photos and videos from the last month. And you know what's weird? All of the videos had horrible feedback and scrambled white noise sounds instead of sound. And half of the pictures were grainy (despite not being on a high ISO setting). I thought that I had murdered my camera, but I now think that he knew he was dying and he jumped from my hands on purpose, to get it over with quickly.
RIP little Canon. I loved the last 4 years with this camera; if I could buy the exact same camera today, I would - but it's old now and a trillion small point and shoots have come out since, so I really need to read up on the reviews before I buy. Over the next couple weeks, as I research and save up a little cash for my new point and shoot (because the truth is, I cannot live without one), I'll still post daily photos. But I'm going to have to change my format a bit, because having a pocket camera is pretty necessary for a one-a-day blog.
I'll post mostly daily cell phone photos.
At least a few times, I'll lug out the SLR.
And to fill in the gaps, I'll post some of my favorite photos that I've taken with the Canon over the last 4 years.
Sadly, this is the last picture I'll take with this camera:
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