The best of the three pictures taken before the battery went out

I don’t believe in deja vus, really, and I doubt their overall usefulness, but let me tell you what happened to date … exactly a year ago: I had arranged to go out on an autumn photo shoot with my friends. I’d prepared my camera, recharged my batteries, and done everything necessary to be ready for an afternoon with my friends and my camera. But, lo, as soon as we wanted to start to shoot, my camera’s batteries quit their job, never to work again. And so, I ended up being a by-stander in our so well planned-out autumn photo shoot.

Now, listen to this: Exactly one year later, namely today (though I only realized afterward), I’d arranged with one my friends to go on another autumn photo tour. But guess what happened, as soon as I got out my camera to start snapping away? You’re right! Something happened that seemed quite familiar to me – like a bad kind of deja vu! The batteries refused to work yet again, and all I got was a couple ground shots for when I was still checking the settings. (Though this time it really was my own fault. Knowing that the battery needed to be recharged soon, I should have checked my camera bag to make sure the  other battery – which was charged – was in there and not in the closet where I found it sleeping away happily after I got back home.)

So, note to self: even though you may think your camera will work because you’ve taken care of your batteries, there’s always that odd chance where things are not the way you thought they were. So, always double check before you go on a photo shoot. Then you may actually use your camera for picture taking, and not just for carrying it around as an extra accessory!

PS. And I wonder what’s gonna happen one year from now …