photos you couldn't take because you didn't have your camera with you

Calina

I was in Paris yesterday, to do some shopping. I didn't pack the camera because I'd a good idea of what I was going to be lugging around and it didn't allow for the camera.

It doesn't get dark until after 5.30 there at the moment (bit different to here). Anyway, on the Champs Elysées, there are fabulous Christmas lights (not gone yet), and there's a Ferris wheel on Concorde.

When you cross the Champs Elysées at the Arc end and look down towards Concord, the lights just meet at the edges of the Ferris Wheel. It looked fantastic. I have never seen anything quite like it.

I don't intend to miss it next year.

sineadw

Ah ****e Treasa. I hate it when that happens. I was walking back from Julie's one evening and there was an entire family of foxes frolicking about in the garden of a derelict house. Would probably have been too dark but I was sick anyway.

Chunky Monkey

There'll always be beautiful photo opportunities in Paris I was walking to work the other morning past the Mater. They're tearing down the old nurses home at the moment. There was a digger parked on top of a pile of rubble. Behind that there was a space where a window used to be with a piece of plastic hanging off the edge of it and you could see the sun rising through the window. Think it would have made a nice shot but I didn't have my camera.

bradnailer

THE FISH THAT GOT AWAY
Happens to me all the time, guess I should buy a P&S.

trishw78

I brought the wrong lens to navy pier with me when i was in Chicago and missed some nice shots

PaulieC

the answer: Canon Powershot G9. Compact, excellent quality, manual controls,IS...nice

Quackles

Actually, funny story about this.. I was in Currys in the carraroe retail park in Sligo one day last year, and I spotted dirt cheap digital cameras, no brand, no real 'quality'.. Because I like spending money and I'm a mammy and kids do the craziest things, I decided I needed a 'handbag camera' and bought it. I went back to the car with my new purchase, and a helicopter lands just down from me in the car park. I couldn't get the stupid plastic packaging opened fast enough and ended up with a crappy photo anyway :rolleyes: You can't win!

deRanged

on my first holiday with my brand new slr I went for a walk on the beach (in france) but decided to leave the zoom lens behind. Once I got to the beach I spent the next half hour watching a military exercise 300 yards off shore - helicopters dropping divers into the water, speed boats and jetskis picking them up, bringing them back to larger boats, transferring them back to the 'choppers and the whole thing repeating.

bullpost

Was down the west at a music festival years ago and was in the town at some stage on a lovely sunny day. Two old ladies , identical twins, were walking down the street in identical purple polka-dot dresses.
Would have made a classic photo.

Masada

i went all the way out to howth to get some shots with my shiney new D80 only to fing when i got there that i had left the card in my laptop,.lol,.:o
that kinda counts huh,.

stewiegriffin08

I was charging my batteries, they wre completly dead after coming form a trip... Next thing, right outside my houde, First and only time I ever saw this, there was about 500 army soilders all jogging past.... would have made a fantastic photo if you had seen it.... ahh well, another time is when the clouds form something fantastic... then by the tie you get the camera.... gone :rolleyes: I saw the symbol from hereos anyway, incase any of you know it.:)

RoryW

Calina wrote: »

When you cross the Champs Elysées at the Arc end and look down towards Concord, the lights just meet at the edges of the Ferris Wheel. It looked fantastic. I have never seen anything quite like it.

Calina, just for you...



This was taken in 2005 in my pre DSLR days and unless they have changed the lights it should be roughly the same

This one is from this year but just shows the ferris wheel