Bill and I are going to visit his daughter in St.Paul, over the Easter weekend and I have been busy packing. Packing for a trip is one of those chores I detest, but I have learned, the hard way, what happens when you get sloppy. The downside to all my planning is that I have a tendency bring something along, just in case and that tendency can quickly turn a weekend trip into an expedition. Not good.
Of course, the
digital cameras are packed and ready to go and I am also taking one of my favorite film cameras. This photographic safari will be family photography, of course, but I also hope to get some landscape photography done, along the way, so I will be taking a selection of short and standard
camera lenses in the camera bags. I am leaving the big telephoto lenses behind, so no need for the
tripods. Image stabilization in digital cameras does have its advantages.
Not sure, though, if we will have a chance to do any birding or astronomy, so I will be leaving the
birding binoculars and astronomical binoculars, behind. However, I will, pack my compact binoculars in my purse, just in case I need to do some birding. That’s the beauty of compact binoculars – when in doubt, just put a compact binocular in your purse and go. Try that with an astronomy binocular.