Captured on the Coast

I learn lessons really well the hard way.

My camera with preferred holiday lens attached is heavy. Believing that between the padded camera case and the suitcase it would be well protected from rough shod handling by airline baggage handlers, I stowed my expensive photographic equipment in my checked luggage. I’m lucky it was only the UV filter that smashed.

In the local shopping mall we found a camera shop and unbelievably it was staffed by photographers, not just retail assistants. The store owner removed the ring of the smashed filter from the lens, then proceeded to teach me polarising filter 101. Sure it means he made sales, but I think the attached photos will attest to the difference that highest quality filters make to definition and contrast.

I’ll carry my camera in my hand luggage in future.

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Led a varied existence cooking, parenting, cooking, teaching, cooking, nursing, cooking , travelling, cooking, photographing, cooking, writing, cooking, loving, laughing and more cooking......... This blog was suggested by my eldest daughter as a means to share family recipes and their adaptations and modernizations.....and I am loving it!! What an excuse to cook, write and photograph.

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