[Leica] A quick - non-visual and painful reminder why I should always carry a camera.

[rangefinder at screengang.com (Didier Ludwig)]

Dont worry about that, B.D. - following Murphy's law, with a camera in your 
bag the sky would have been cloudy and the window scratched, and the girls 
would have taken an earlier train.
:-)
Didier


>Coming back Friday evening I had a window seat in the rear of the plane
>and just at sundown missed one of the best 'wing shots' I've seen in
>many a year - and I even had a clean, reflection-free window through
>which to shoot. Sky and clouds an unearthly pink going to violet; last
>of the sunlight turning the protrusions beneath the wings to pure gold;
>wing lights sharp and well defined; leading edge of the wing a pure
>black, thin band. And no camera. Okay, the photo would have been a
>clich?, but it might have been a good clich?. :-)
>
>As if that wasn't bad enough, while taking the subway home from the
>airport, while I was waiting to switch trains I was surrounded by a
>gaggle of young girls - mid-teens, laughing and chattering away, and
>about two-thirds of them were wearing either gold or silver paper tiaras
>spelling out the words Happy Birthday. It could have been a killer b&w
>shot...But no camera.
>
>Back or no back, I have learned my lesson. :-(