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Missed photo opportunities

Miss Chicken

Little three legged cat with attitude
Admiral
Can you recall sometime/s when you saw something unusual or extraordinary and you didn't have a camera ready/handy?

Years ago, I saw a beautiful moonbow. I was at Southport (about 100 km south of Hobart) at a camp with my children. The nun who was running the camp told us to go outside for a look. It was aound 10pm, with a full moon and it there was a slight drizzle. We looked out across the sea and sa the moonbow which was just like a rainbow except it was different shades of sliver. After I had looked for a little while I could just make out feint colours. This was before the days of digital cameras. I wonder if my current camera would have picked up the colours?

Another time I was crossing the road and saw an elderly lady on a zimmer frame approaching. As the lights began to flash she picked up her zimmer frame and spritely ran to catch the light. I thought for a second tht she might be someone young dressed up to look old but looking at her legs I am quite sure she was elderly.
 
One thing I hate is how one might be out driving when you see a perfect scenic vintage or something, but there was no place to stop and take pictures safely like on a highway.
 
I know the feeling. A simiar thing happens to me when I am on a bus and therefore cannot stop and take a photo.
 
My favorite is all those people that saw Tasmanian tigers but inexplicably their phones were out of battery. Always keep your phone charged people in case you see a Tasmanian tiger.
 
i usually keep my camera with me everywhere i go. but it never fails. when i don't have it with me i see an amazing sunset or a raccoon trying to steal my cats food or something.
 
My favorite is all those people that saw Tasmanian tigers but inexplicably their phones were out of battery. Always keep your phone charged people in case you see a Tasmanian tiger.

Or when they do manage to take a photo of "a Tassie tiger" they take the worst possible, extremely blurred photo.
 
My favorite is all those people that saw Tasmanian tigers but inexplicably their phones were out of battery. Always keep your phone charged people in case you see a Tasmanian tiger.
Or when they do manage to take a photo of "a Tassie tiger" they take the worst possible, extremely blurred photo.

It's because they are running through the bush, panting.
 
When I was going to a series at Old Yankee Stadium back in '08, my camera crapped out on me - battery was dead. At first I started freaking out but then I realized I had one more game the next day and so I made sure to charge the battery up full.

Then after I got home to Omaha later that week, the camera died for good. Fortunately I had managed to get in those last pictures before it did - before the start of the last game I ran all over the stadium taking pictures from every possible angle.
 
Was in Siberia and happened upon a LIVE WOOLY MAMMOTH crossing a river. Damn camera had gotten wet moments before. Some russian with a crappy camera phone got some video that's so bad it looks like a bear carrying a fish.
 
They only went (supposedly) extinct a few hundred years ago.

I took this photo while I was out (definitely NOT a missed one!!). I'm pretty sure it's a primitive wall painting by an indigenous Da Vinci, postulating the possibility of the helicopter.

 
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If a whole heap of Tassie tigers can stay hidden in little old Tasmania for a few decades, I am sure a few mammoths could hide in Siberia for a few hundred/thousand of years.
 
They might be a species of mammoths that change their coat colour in winter? They might be smaller than the mammoths known to man?
 
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