206/365 All looks and no functionality...

206/365 All looks and no functionality..., a photo by Darcy89 on Flickr.

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You know when you buy a new toy and you obsess about it and imagine how your life would change once you had it and you research and research until you know almost everything it is possible to know about it without ever having actually touched it and then finally the day comes where you go out and buy it and everything else os import is unceremoniously shoved aside so you can unwrap its packaging and play play play!!!!

Anyone?

... Well yes, on this day... that was me. With one minor missing detail - no flash units. THEY are still in the mail. Shipped from somewhere in asia and Melbourne respectively. So I have all of this new gear and an entire weekend free and there is nothing I can do with it. Fail.

You see I was so excited! I just HAD to set them up NOW! Even though there was ABSOLUTELY NO POINT!

It was like just before I bought my DSLR. It was the Autumn of 2009 and I had just paid the deposit for the European bus tour that my bff and I had been planning since well the last europe trip in 2005. So I needed a new camera you see. Simultaneously we were both working at a news-agency which basically meant that for the last year I could/had been/continued to get my hands on, read and devour EVERY SINGLE camera / gear / photography tutorial magazine ever made. I mean (in theory at least) I knew everything there was to know about the aperture/shutter speed/ISO relationship and the various artistic and practical effects of changing them; I knew all of the pros and cons of the majority of the digital interchangeable lens cameras on the market (both in and far exceeding my financial capacity). I could tell you specs and talk crap for hours on end (and I did if you were ever silly enough to ask so most of my co-workers learnt pretty quickly to avoid the subject). And yet, I had never actually held one... because every-time I walked into a camera store, armed with my copious hours of reading, tutorials, spec sheets and reviews, all it took was one "Hi, can I help you" from one of their sales people, to send me freaking out and running back to the hills / safety of those glossy pages.

Anyway obviously I got over that eventually.

My quest to delve into the realm of of camera flash was somewhat similar in the sense that I spent copious hours researching my options. Then plenty more stressing over my decision before finally, in a moment of reckless abandon, purchasing a damned flash! Then of course I needed accessories and since shipping is do damn ridiculous I actually ventured into a brick and mortar store to do so... which is why I end up with all looks and no functionality. Flash not included.

Sigh

Much love,
D.