So Sad

I’m addicted to my camera as I’m sure you can tell.  Well, maybe you can’t tell through a computer screen, but I can assure you that I am.

To put it lightly: it is ALWAYS with me.  In my hand, stuck in my purse, hidden in my car.  {And it’s always in MM’s face.  Poor baby.}

Imagine my complete and utter sadness when Thursday it quit working in the middle of photographing my dad and his tractor.  It made a clicking noise, wouldn’t focus, and then the viewfinder went black.

Oh, poo, the shutter broke!

I can’t really fault my camera for breaking.  After all, I’ve had it for almost six years and taken around 30,000 pictures on it without the slightest problem.

It’s gone through vacations in foreign countries, an old house restoration {more dangerous than it sounds for a camera}, a dive in the river when our kayak flipped {thankfully in a dry bag}, the birth & first year of our child, and the list goes on and on and on.

But even though it’s about time something happened to it, I’m still so sad.  I can’t imagine not having it with me for the next 2-3 weeks as it gets fixed.  Every time I see something I want to photograph–MM playing yesterday morning, Vivi cuddling with a toy after she fell asleep, the light coming through the kitchen window this evening–it makes me so depressed because those are moments I can never get back…they are forever gone.

And yes, I’m sure there’s some truth to the whole ‘get-out-from-behind-the-lens-and-live-life’ philosophy, but there’s a bigger part of me that loves being able to capture my family’s day-to-day life so candidly with my permanently attached camera.

Images like these, for instance.

So, for the next couple of weeks there may not be as many photos on my blog, but that might just be okay. Last night I was looking through pictures I’ve taken this summer and I realized many of them have never been posted. And I might just show you some of them which is especially fitting since this is my last week of summer vacation. Yes, very fitting indeed.

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