I had this moment yesterday, one that you have that makes you think, "well, I can't take it with me."
I was sitting in the bleachers at Jacobs eighth grade graduation starting to take pictures with my camera. I pushed the button to take Jacob's picture as he walked to his seat on the field. I realized that the camera would not let me take a picture. I was curious as to why it would not let me take a picture. The thoughts that go through my head at this time is, 'I know the battery is not dead because I have been in this position before so I made absolutely sure that the battery was charged earlier in the day so that I could use my ever so fancy camera to take the perfect picture of Jacob during his eighth grade graduation.'
Quick side note: this was a real graduation, like one that you attend for high school or college. They called off every name of every student as they walked up to the stage to receive their elementary education diploma. Continued: I looked down at the screen to see that my memory card was full and I could not take anymore pictures. Well, shoot! I did not think of that. I usually, after taking several hundred pictures, upload my pictures to my computer so that I have them. I have not had this problem ever before on my camera. I decide that I will go ahead and delete some pictures because to tell you the truth I do sometimes take a lot of pictures, like maybe a couple of 1,000's of pictures and then go through them later to delete the ones I really do not want. The nature of having a hobby of photography! I hand the camera to Dan and tell him I need to delete some pictures so that I can take new pictures, ones that I think are important. Dan says quickly, "can I delete all?" I say, Yes I think so....wait...no I have my pictures from our trip to Arizona on their that I have not taken off yet." Dan says "I just deleted all."
I have the feeling of oh no! Oh no, I just lost all my pictures of the Grand Canyon, Sedona, and Rio Rico. I just deleted all of my last vacation pictures. I do have some on my phone and I have a few that I have already shared with Facebook and Instagram friends. I think to myself how crazy is this, I asked Dan to turn around the car after we left our house to go back and get my lens so that I could take awesome pictures at the Grand Canyon. It was a forty minute turn around and I was truly thankful that Dan turned around to go back and get it. I thought, as I sat there after deleting my pictures, what a waste of time to turn around. Then I thought, well at least I have a few from my phone and you know what I have the memory of going to this amazing place and that is all I really need.
