That’s the question I am putting out there. I bring my camera out with me almost all  the time. There have been too many moments where something happened, or I thought would make a good photo, but I did not have a camera with me. Typically I have my Apple iPhone with me, but the quality of the camera just doesn’t make me whip it out and take a photo.

Last night we hit up Denman Street for some dinner and then walked over to English Bay. Was there opportunities to take photos? There are always things to take photos of and I am always trying to think of how I can take photos of the same thing but in a different way.

HR MacMillanSpace Centre & Planetarium

English Bay

English Bay – First Beach

The evening was pretty hazy as a weather front starting moving in. I processed the above photos as single exposure HDRs in Photomatix, and played with the curves a bit in Photoshop. Being a Monday, English Bay was relatively quiet. It it was later in the week, or a weekend it would have been a lot busier.

Highly cropped Harbour Seal

While Robyn and I sat on a bench near the Inukshuk just letting the world pass by, I noticed in the water a black object bobbing up and down. It was a harbour seal looking around seeing what was happening on land. Perhaps he smelt the food that people were BBQing nearby. He showed his head a few times and then must of taken off. I see the occasional harbour seal on my seawall walks, perhaps one day I’ll get a photo of one sunbathing out of the water.

So, do you carry a camera around with you? Which one? Are you like me and bring a dSLR with a favorite lens? Do you load up your camera bag with most of your gear and lug it around? Do you have that compact digital camera stashed in your purse or pocket?