I'm beginning to worry that personal fail posts might become a thing with me...
After farting around the house and wasting most of a beautiful day doing nothing much, I finally convinced the tribe to get out and head downtown for the afternoon. I had been poking at my Bronica SQA, a camera that I have largely, shamefully, ignored since I acquired it, messing with the Polaroid back and trying to nail down the Bronica's functionality so that I could shoot with it without having to fumble.
On our walk we encountered an Indian street festival which offered some good photo ops; food vendors, Indian dancing, and lots of Indian clothing. Next to a park where a flag for every victim of the 9/11 attacks were layed out in two columns along the grass field, representing the Twin Towers. "OK", I thought, "time to to put some shallow DOF into action and have a single flag in focus while the rest blur behind". Took a few shots there. My kids decided to play about and wrestle one another and I wasted a few frames on them. We then headed to one of the local art museums where I took a few pictures of the building and then placed the camera in my bag and view a great exhibition of American works on paper, sketches, prints and the like.
Upon leaving the museum the late afternoon light looked favorable so I decided to shoot a few more frames. As I was shooting it dawned on me that I had probably taken more than 12 shots... On close inspection, the frame counter was still on 1. Not good. On closer inspection I found that I had not turned the multiple exposure switch off after swapping the Polaroid holder for the 120 back. So every shot that I had taken was on a, now horrifically overexposed, single frame.
"F*ck, f*ck, f*ck, f*ck, f*ckitty, f*ck, McF*ckpants!" That's a direct quote.
The wonderfully fresh Ramen dinner with the family afterward did much to ameliorate my mood but.... damn.
