Your "Darn I missed it" moment?

[Becky]

Well everyones had that terrible oh maaan I wish I had my camera with me/why its in my bag and not in my hand.....type moment!

Whats your worst been?! :blushing:

That one shot that would have made your life so much better and you missed! :lol:

[Becky]

Sorry I probably should have posted this is the Photographic Discussion section... if someone would do the honors of moving it that would be splendid ;)

[binglemybongle]

Can't think of one particular moment but many have involved my cat.:cat:

She does ridiculously bizarre things and i keep missing them.

The only way to capture them, ive concluded, would be to have my camera surgically attached to my head.

Unfortuaantely this raises its own set of problems. Including ridicule and musculatory problems in the upper back and neck.

[hobbes28]

I've missed so many in the past that I don't go anywhere without my camera now. I don't want to miss any more. :D

[Becky]

Ditto, it was a lot easier with my compact digital but since I'm not so keen on it anymore I'm taking my SLR everywhere, even to work in case of a good shot on the way!! :mrgreen:

[hobbes28]

I carry two bags with me (one with the D70 and N70 and the other with lenses) to work and they sit in my office, locked away most of the day. Sometimes I go out to the cemetary next to the building and take pictures of graves or the frogs in the pond. That's also just in case. :D

[terri]

Well, I don't know if I've missed anything life-altering. ;) BUT - just last night I was sitting on the patio and suddenly a hummingbird appeared in front of me - not 2 feet away. I froze so he'd hang around, and he was definitely checking me out, moving up and down, tilting his head - almost scratching his head. I think I looked strange to him in my lime-colored t-shirt. :lol:

He then flitted over to the feeder and took a long drink, allowing me plenty of time to set up and fire off some good images. He would have been a perfect capture - IF I'd been sitting out there with the camera at the ready. :x

:slaps hand on forehead:

[Nikon Fan]

Just had one of those last night at the St. Louis Cardinals game...Edmonds caught an AMAZING catch, right after I had just finished taking a different shot and put my camera away since it was a few moments before time to leave :(

[Karalee]

I always see things that would make the best pictures when I dont have my camera. So now Im paranoid and carry my camera everywhere too :lol:

[photogoddess]

Me too! I've always got a camera with me. I like to bring my 10D but it's in a big backpack and I get tired of carrying it around. So, I'll just grab one of the point and shoots and bring that along instead. :mrgreen:

[STILLALIVE]

yeah i was taking a walk going to get the mail and i live near a river lots of bald eagles and there is one flying to a tree with a big fish in his hand i could have killed myself now i too carry my camera EVERYWHERE

[Becky]

hahaha we're a right obsessional bunch, but really I'm like noooooooo, but whyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy, I can't BELIEVE I missed that shot. It gets to me so much lol!!!! :D

[summers_enemy]

I was driving to work last spring and I passed by a field full of cows. Well, one of these cows had it's entire head stuck though the fence just so it could eat the grass growing next to the road. It was hilarious! And I had no camera :(

Also, everytime I go out looking for the egrets that call the rice fields near my house home, there are none to be found. Driving to work or coming home from work they're everywhere. I bring my camera with me and they all mysteriously go elsewhere for the day. Go figure. Those birds mock me I tell you! :lol:

[LaFoto]

The only instance that I clearly remember is when I went shopping (and why would I bring any camera to the shop?) when I saw workmen renewing the floor in a stable across the street (yes, we live in the boonies!). And for some reason they could not transport their material (still liquid concrete of a kind) into the building other than carrying yokes. True enough! Yokes. In Germany. Two buckets on each side hanging from the yoke on their shoulders. This is so rare a sight in my country, I have only seen it ONCE.
Then.
Never before. Never again.
And my camera was at home.

Not that photographing the scene would have changed my life.
But it is still nagging at me - two years after it happened.

[Skipster]

I always have a moment of anxiety after just seeing a beautiful once-in-a-lifetime shot. The only thing I wish I had photographed more is my children. Right from the pregnancy to their first smile and spit bubble. I was married unprepared and a camera was the farthest thing from our minds at the time. Now my kids are 12 and 10. Those early years are gone forever and those are the shots I wished I had. For those that have a camera and are expecting, you can never shoot too many rolls of film, you won't regret it like i do.

[fightheheathens]

the otherday we had a sweet sun set, unfortunatly its very treey and hilly where i live and hard to get a good view of the sun. well finally after trying different places i find this hill where i can see the sun setting and it was an amazing sun, the kind that is red as red can be, and it was distorted, looked very flat and elongated, so i put on my 200mm lens with a doubler and i pretty much had the sun filling up the view finder and i go to advance the film foward and half way though the lever stopped. i was at the end of the roll and in my haste to leave the room i had left all my film there thinking as i left, nah, ill only need 1 roll...

[LizM]

I was on my way to work a few months back and a hot air balloon was floating above the interstate. Not having my camera with me for that was bad enough but 30 minutes after I passed it made and emergency landing in the center median of the interstate!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


2nd missed it shot - couple of nights ago I was moving the grass and a big blue heron comes swooping into the backyard almost directly over my head!!!!

[LWW]

We were at the Indy 500 in 1990. A golf cart came cruising thru the infield where we were and it had about a dozen goons walking with it and all we could see of the cart's passenger seat occupant was a pair of shoes and ankles with no socks.

My buddy yelled "who's the Don Johnson looking big shot?", or words to that effect, and the passenger side occupant stood up and gave him the finger.

Yep. Don Johnson.

LWW

[PhotoB]

...too many moments

my son is now 11 months old and I have very limited pics of his "early" months.

Of course, to the non-photograhers around me, they think my 20 rolls are an insane amount ;)

but I still know I have missed documenting so much. :(

['Daniel']

I had a really good shot of a squirrel on my mums film slr and it was perfect and held just long enough for me to take it, I pressed the shutter release only to realise I hadn't opens the shutter lever grrr :-x

[Eric.]

I missed out on the most beautiful harvest moon the other night. It was full, huge and orange and was just comming out from behind a blue(dark purplish) cloud, because it had just rained. The sky was amazing. I was killing myself for not having my camera.

[Corry]

Just had one of those last night at the St. Louis Cardinals game...Edmonds caught an AMAZING catch, right after I had just finished taking a different shot and put my camera away since it was a few moments before time to leave :(

I missed some at baseball games too...though I got plenty of good ones of the Cardinals LOSING! Muwahahahahaha! (sorry, I'll stop now)

I couldn't pick just ONE shot that I missed that would have been awesome, but I can tell you my most recent!...er...show you, actually...we had the Barrel Races here in my town last weekend, and I stuck it out in the pouring rain and got tons of pics. At one point, I got was snapping away, got the picture right before the guy fell off....

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v239/core_17/116.jpg

and right after he fell off....

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v239/core_17/117.jpg

..but I DIDN'T get the one of him actually falling!!! GRRRRR! I was mad. :x

[Corry]

...too many moments

my son is now 11 months old and I have very limited pics of his "early" months.

Of course, to the non-photograhers around me, they think my 20 rolls are an insane amount ;)

but I still know I have missed documenting so much. :(

I've always said, when I have kids, they will be the most well documented children EVER. I have plans to do a semi formal portait every week for at least the first year, maybe longer, so later on in life, we can look back and literally watch him/her grow. :)

[Marctwo]

The first thing I do when I see a shot is shoot! Most of the time this gives me an unusable shot but at least I have something.

What really gets my goat is when I'm setting up for the second (proper) shot and the subject decides to move on - this happens far too often. :(

[seven]

I think someone should invent a camera contact. All you have to do is blink the eye with the contact in it, then voila! a picture is taken. Nothing to carry around, and easy to use! Manual focus with your eye... it's perfect!