Does anyone else do this? Protecting/Checking camera when falling

[clay_s]

So the solution for things getting munted is to become munted!

[kiwifergus]

Hey, if ya can’t beat em, join em :D

[bug_girl]

@karen5lund Welcome to the forum! Glad you are here. :-)

[bug_girl]

Yup! Not with fermented berries for me, but probably doing this.

@kiwifergus

the ashen sticks to scrawl on the cave walls

Or, swimming around in the rapids trying for the slight chance that I can find the paper and drying it out, thinking “hurry up sun, get it dry, I need to sketch all the fish and plants I just saw. can you believe I saw a 14 inch perch! oh hurry up! oh, look there is a lizard. ughhh! still damp.” And then realizing you forgot the pencils.

[astra_the_dragon]

my phone is my main camera, so I do get pretty concerned about it…

In a city it’s easy enough to get home safely without it, but out in the wilderness/field not having a functional phone (=call police/ambulance if I need, =gps/navigator, =reference material, =and more) is a big problem.

For better and for worse, I do a lot of urban exploration. I’m really interested in the urban ecosystem and in weedy species so it suits me. In those cases I’m more concerned about keeping myself uninjured. Let the phone get run over!

[benjaminlancer]

My camera was a birthday present that my girlfriend & two brothers pitched in for. If anything happened to it, there would be no way I could repair it or get a new one. it’s the most expensive thing i own.

So yeah, i am terrified whenever anything could have happened to it.

[karen5lund]

Thanks @bug_girl! I am finally using the iNaturalist account I created in December, learning as I go and enjoying it greatly.

[inasiebert]

I also do the dancing. I once did this after walking for hours to get a look at European Bee Eaters. When I finally saw them, I was so excited that the first pictures were all blurry. But once I had gotten good pictures, I started to dance. A great victory dance in the vineyards. I still do that when watching and getting good pictures of something I consider really great.

[bug_girl]

It makes life fun.

[clay_s]

@inasiebert

I also do the dancing. I once did this after walking for hours to get a look at European Bee Eaters. When I finally saw them, I was so excited that the first pictures where all blurry. But once I had gotten good pictures, I started to dance. A great victory dance in the vineyards. I still do that when watching and getting good pictures of something I consider really great.

Does it look like this at around 3:11?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbvfpns2LAg

[kiwifergus]

https://youtu.be/rbvfpns2LAg?t=191 for those that want to go straight to it!

[inasiebert]

It sure did and does…
Silently cheering, though, to not scare the birds.

[anngoddard]

Oh Yeah! But sometimes it works out for the best. I was standing on a logging landing that was littered willy-nilly with logs when the ground under me gave way and I went falling with my heavy Nikon in hand. Of course I held the camera up to save it, landing solidly on my thigh/hip where I got a mighty bruise, but it was made to take such a blow. The camera was OK, and better than that I didn’t break my wrist trying to catch my fall, which is a common mishap. The bruise was OK and I finished my hike. All’s well that ends well.

[mira_l_b]

@mamestraconfigurata

I hadn’t thought about that aspect of things. Now one more thing to be worried about, although I do tend to walk on (and fall on) beaten paths.

yeah, I’m a pro at fun ruining through hyper vigilance, awareness, sharing of facts and overthinking! Sorry :)

[tgbirdnerd]

I hold my camera up in the air as a reflex which keeps it from actually hitting the ground. Saved it 2 times.

[mamestraconfigurata]

That is wonderful!!

[williamharmonlds]

I think that I’m just lucky because my camera/equipment should break but it doesn’t. Until I dropped my iPod into the Little Kanawha River( in West Virginia).