What's Messing With Your Groove Right Now?

[Miladymimi]

Serious illness of a family member. The kind that makes you feel helpless and frustrated.

 

[Breaux]

My groove is OK.

 

[Bitter Jeweler]

Bump...but my groove isn't messed with right now.

 

[bazooka]

Having to wait for two things.... one, getting off work so I can waste the weekend away playing Skyrim. Two, waiting a year to go on a photo workshop with Alain Briot in October.

 

[JMBriggs]

Not having a 50mm 1.4 on my dslr... I have one on my film camera but no darkroom for 100 mi.... You know when you start to want something then you just can't enjoy life without it? Lol. Also I'm supposed to go 4wheeling in the snow with a group of my hubby's friends and their wives.... Who I have nothing In common with and I'm the chubbiest (and probably the only one shallow enough to care). (On the other hand, I do have the cutest hubby!)

 

[StringThing]

My 55-300 lens is still at Nikon for warranty repair and I could have *REALLY* used it this weekend.

 

[c.cloudwalker]

5 funerals and no weddings.

 

[Warren Peace]

Some punks decided to break into my house, and my cameras were stolen, along with a lot of personal items

 

[mommy-medic]

Being too broke to ever upgrade my camera. First came to the forum almost a year ago with questions and upgrade dreams. Every time I get any money saved up something comes up. The state cut their lottery funded scholarships so I had to unexpectedly pay tuition despite a 4.0 GPA (lotto covered some, but I had to cough up over $700 for two classes. And have spring fees due in another 3 weeks. Grrrr!) The car needed bearings replaced. Now it needs brakes. Kids needed dental work. Water rates went up 30%, my stocks took a nose dive, it never ends. At this rate I will have enough saved up for my D7000 when they're antique, lol.

I'm trying to just be thankful for what I have and use it to it fullest. I heard someone once say that to decide if upgrades are truly wants or needs- you know you truly need to upgrade when you're limited by your gear. I bought a 50mm f/1.4 prime last winter and LOVE it- but I have to manually focus on it and though it's helped me learn tremendously, I still get frustrated missing a few shots, or checking the camera display and thinking I nailed it only to get home and find it soft. I'm also looking forward to the vastly improve low light handling and sky high ISO settings. Hate getting noise and grain (though that lens is great for low light!) anyway- its frustrating, but I try to just be thankful for what I DO have, kwim?

 

[cpeay]

Its snowing right now. I hate the snow!!!!

 

[skieur]

Some punks decided to break into my house, and my cameras were stolen, along with a lot of personal items

The answer to that is an inside covert video camera and recorder that are motion activated. They can be bought on-line from B.C. for much less than $1,000 with HD quality. Some even have night vision. The punks are likely to be back for a second go-round. Dual cylinder locks on doors that can be locked from the inside to prevent escape routes also work.

By the way, being Canadian, now is perhaps the time to look at your home insurance again since the rates vary as much as $1,000 per year from one company to another. That would recoup the cost of your video surveillance and more.

skieur

 

[camz]

Off season blues

 

[mishele]

That my drink is empty!!!!!!

 

[EIngerson]

^^^^^ That.

 

[bentcountershaft]

Right now I'm trying to figure out why it is that ignorance spreads like a weed yet spraying weed killer in the face of an ignorant person doesn't fix it.