Charity shop…

This tripod will be wending its way to the charity shop in a few minutes. I think I can manage to snap my blip without using a tripod.
Actually I very rarely used it because I was too lazy a photographer to drag a tripod around. Now to demonstrate that I will tell you about an experience I had a few years ago…
I booked a weeks photography course in Sark. Travel was really easy for me because I live about 20 minutes walk from the Sark boat. I spotted the group and joined them introducing myself but they told me I wasn’t with their group so there must be a second group somewhere. And so started their very derogatory treatment of me. Luckily I have a thick skin and since things often come back to bite such people on the bum I just played the waiting game.
These guys each had at least one tripod and what seemed like a myriad of large cameras around their necks. I did have my Nikon but clearly not a big enough one. This went on all week until the last day.
We were asked to each select our 10 or 12 best shots and display them for an invited group of Sarkees.. There were murmurs of surprise when they realized that my pics were on a par with theirs and even worse; that I was getting far more attention than them because I am a descendant of one of the forty original tenants who came from Jersey. The Le Feuvre tenament is the one that remained in the family the longest; from 1565 to the mid 1960s.
At dinner that evening I very graciously accepted the apologies and glasses of wine that found their way to me. Well and truly bitten on the bum!!!