I’m finally starting to get through the photos from my backpacking trip to the White Mountains in New Hampshire a couple months ago. Unfortunately the trip turned out to be a bit of a bust photographically. Backpacking and photography are slightly awkward bedfellows on the best of trips, but in this case the trails were rough enough that there wasn’t a ton of time or energy left over to take pictures. And it didn’t help that I dropped my camera on the second day and it stopped focusing correctly.
White Mountains New Hampshire, August 2011Fortunately it wasn’t my bigger, newer camera, it was the little Panasonic I carry in a chest pouch when I hike. Still, it was pretty disappointing. Not only is the other camera more work to get out and get set up (which cut down on the number of photos I shot during the trip), I’ve always been fond of the Panasonic’s native “widescreen” format which encouraged me to experiment with shots like the one above. I haven’t inquired with Panasonic yet to see how much repairs would cost, but I suspect they’ll be expensive enough that the money would be better put toward a new camera. So it goes with modern technology…