It goes without saying that having a charged charged battery is very important to a photographer. I’ve laughed at fellow photographers and friends who told me horror stories involving uncharged batteries, but it isn’t so funny now that the joke is on you…
view from my room
Checking into misery
I am not a full time photographer or blogger (yet!) so I have a day job. It so happens that on the weekend of May 6th to 8th 2011 my office went on a staff retreat to the Iberostar Suites in Rose Hall St James in my beautiful island home of Jamaica. To say I was excited would be an understatement as a scheduling conflict caused me to miss out on the last staff retreat in 2008. I packed my bags the night before pausing to plug the batteries for my cam in so it could charge overnight. Trouble is when I arrived at the resort and was wowed by the lobby alone I dug my cam out of my bag to take a picture only to see the low battery notice flashing on the screen o.O.
view from one of the bars
If only I could kick myself
I didn’t think I needed to carry the charger as I was only planning to take a few snaps here and there. If I could kick myself I would, how could I not check the battery before I left? Turns out my weekend was full of great photo opportunities but without a cam I was a little sad and had to do with the crappy cam on my smartphone and my cheap HD video recorder.
view at night
Faulty Battery
After returning home I soon realized that there was a problem with the battery but that is still not an excuse as all weekend I didn’t know that and my mind was fixated on my useless camera. I guess all photographers have to make this mistake but I’ve promised myself that never will I home again without checking my camera battery.
a very picturesque beach
wish I could have done a series of shots here
