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canyonwalkerGeorgia Travelog #12
Amicalola Falls State Park - Thursday, 10 Apr 2025, 5:30pm
In my previous blog I remarked that hiking halfway up the canyon at Amicalola Falls was enough. We could tell that there weren't a lot of views to be gained by laboring up some 300+ more stairs, and we could get the view from the top by driving there. Indeed that's exactly what we did. We drove to the top!
And yeah, while the view from up here is nice, it's not let's-ascend-another-300-plus-stairs nice. 😅
What I forgot this trip is a doozy, though possibly not so... doozious?... as having no changes of underwear. I forgot my camera.
Now, you might be thinking, "LOL, how can you be like 'I fOrGoT mY cAmErA' when you've posted a picture in the same blog?" I mean, I'm pretty much never without a camera as there's one in my mobile phone. Actually there are four cameras in my mobile phone— and they've gotten really good thanks to onboard computational photography. But they lack some of the capabilities of my Fujifilm X-T3 interchangeable lens camera.
One of those critical capabilities is taking slow-exposure pictures with the help of screw-on filters to artistically blur the falling water at waterfalls. See for example this little explainer about waterfalls photography I wrote a year and a half ago.
In one respect forgetting my camera is even more of a doozy than forgetting a shirt, socks, or underwear. In each of those cases I simply bought what I forgot at a common local store. Buying a new camera is not something I can simply swing by Target or Best Buy for. I mean, yes, those stores literally sell cameras, but not the quality lenses and filters I carry in my camera bag on trips like this. And even if I could find such things at a specialty photography store, replacing what I left at home would cost several thousand dollars— not something to do on a whim. Or on an "Oops".
I'm still taking pictures this trip, of course. I'm just disappointed that I can't take pictures of the caliber and variety I'm accustomed to.
Amicalola Falls State Park - Thursday, 10 Apr 2025, 5:30pm
In my previous blog I remarked that hiking halfway up the canyon at Amicalola Falls was enough. We could tell that there weren't a lot of views to be gained by laboring up some 300+ more stairs, and we could get the view from the top by driving there. Indeed that's exactly what we did. We drove to the top!
And yeah, while the view from up here is nice, it's not let's-ascend-another-300-plus-stairs nice. 😅
What I Forgot This Trip
In the past I've joked that I forget one thing every trip. Of course that's not literally true, but it also seems not far from accurate. I often forget to pack something. A lot of times it turns out to be minor, something I can just as easily do without. Like forgetting to pack swim trunks when it turns out there was no hot tub at the hotel or I didn't have time to use it anyway. Other times what I forget is a doozy. On various trips I've forgotten to pack a clean shirt, clean socks, even underwear. 😱What I forgot this trip is a doozy, though possibly not so... doozious?... as having no changes of underwear. I forgot my camera.
Now, you might be thinking, "LOL, how can you be like 'I fOrGoT mY cAmErA' when you've posted a picture in the same blog?" I mean, I'm pretty much never without a camera as there's one in my mobile phone. Actually there are four cameras in my mobile phone— and they've gotten really good thanks to onboard computational photography. But they lack some of the capabilities of my Fujifilm X-T3 interchangeable lens camera.
One of those critical capabilities is taking slow-exposure pictures with the help of screw-on filters to artistically blur the falling water at waterfalls. See for example this little explainer about waterfalls photography I wrote a year and a half ago.
In one respect forgetting my camera is even more of a doozy than forgetting a shirt, socks, or underwear. In each of those cases I simply bought what I forgot at a common local store. Buying a new camera is not something I can simply swing by Target or Best Buy for. I mean, yes, those stores literally sell cameras, but not the quality lenses and filters I carry in my camera bag on trips like this. And even if I could find such things at a specialty photography store, replacing what I left at home would cost several thousand dollars— not something to do on a whim. Or on an "Oops".
I'm still taking pictures this trip, of course. I'm just disappointed that I can't take pictures of the caliber and variety I'm accustomed to.
