I'm running with my cell phone from now on !!! (Read 822 times)

Dang it- I've missed some great picture taking opportunities the last two weeks ! Deer, turkeys, buzzards,etc. Could have had a great shot of the buzzard sitting on top of a telephone pole drying his wings out during a light rain. He just sat there watching me run by. He was still there 1/2 hr later when I came back. I got a "real" cell phone now that takes pics and video. Have a 2 gig card in it. Today the DW and I were on a run together and the first part of the run was on the outskirts of town in a closed loop road. A little ankle bitter came out to try to eat us ( dachshund ). All teeth and bark- funny as all get out and would have been a great picture. At least until I stopped and pointed my finger at him and yelled at him to go home.( big chicken- did what I told him to do) Then out on the county road a nice size deer runs right out in front of us across the road. The only problem was that the deer was running at 5K pace but the fence is 10 feet high and she didn't know that. WHACK- head on into the fence and on her butt throwing her back 10 feet. She stood there dazed a few secs and ran up the road with us try the fence two more times- WHACK. She finally ran another 20 yards up the road and tried again- this time success- no fence there. It was hilarious. So from now on I'm putting my phone into my mp3 player arm band and bringing it along. I never run with music anyway.

Hey, were you in my 'hood? We have turkeys, buzzards and deer here, too. And a neighbor of mine has an evil little dachshund who tried to bite me last winter when I had heavy compression tights on. It was hilarious. I have big calves (for a girl, anyhow...I got nuthin' on Trent) and he couldn't sink his teeth into them. Little shit was extra yappy, then.

I almost stepped on a dead black bird on my run today.. not nearly as exciting as a deer or buzzard!

Two friends of mine were attacked at knife point for the camera of one while running this summer. Of course, it was in Rwanda, but it cured me of any desire to run with a camera ....

The world is officially a weird place. Officially. Used to be, when you planned to take pictures, you would pack along something called a "camera". You would save the phone for times when you wanted to make calls. Weird.

There's definitely a weird generation gap when it comes to cell phones...seems the under 30 crowd buys a phone to multi-task and most features are lost on me. I almost never text, rarely use my phone as a camera. I bought the smallest cell phone I could find (Samsung Juke) when I replaced my last phone. I often forget that I am carrying a camera with me all the time...heck, my phone has an mp3 player that I've never used. I kind of miss cell phones that are just for making and receiving calls. QWERTY keyboards...?

I like the quality of pics better on the camera (which is smaller) than the ones from the cell phone....however, it is workable!