Guess who just got soaked to the bone trying to protect her camera equipment? //

Two pink dogwood trees—a small one across the street, another bigger one at the end of the block. Rain stopped; nice light, but overcast & wind blowing hard:

1) Look through the kit lens; yuck; remove it and replace with 40mm prime.

2) Take a couple of shots, results not great.

3) Try throwing the camera in aperture priority then shutter priority mode, still not doing what I want, shutter speed too slow for the wind.

4) Put it in manual mode & bump the shutter speed up to 1/160; depth of field is a bit too shallow; step down from f2.8 to f3.2; better, but still not quite right.

5) Change white balance from “Auto” to “Cloudy”; much better; head down street to other tree as it has more blossoms.

6) Put the camera in “P” (Program, mostly automatic) mode and stop to shoot a picture of the cloudy gray sky.

7) Arrive at house down the block; take off shoes and step into people’s yard, hoping no one will get angry and start screaming at me; no one seems to mind; check camera settings; open aperture back up to f2.8 and snap photo; meh; move around to other side and try again; meh, composition no good; move…. *rumble, CRACK, plop, plop, plop*

8) The heavens open up and within seconds it’s coming down in buckets.

Luckily, I’d put on a (mostly) waterproof jacket because it has big pockets that I could put extra lenses in, so I jammed the camera under under it, made sure the pockets were closed well enough to keep the other lenses dry, then started walking back.

TL;DR: Got home; camera fine (even though I dropped it about 12 inches when I tried to set it down by the strap); amateur photographer soaked to the bone and beginning to wonder if there’s a conspiracy afoot. //

Naturally, it has stopped raining again. HA! Yeah, like I’m gonna fall for that one twice in one day. Hungry—gonna go dig through the fridge.