here we were once again at Putrajaya, watching hot air balloons ascend slowly into the sky and towards the horizon. the only difference was the size of the group attending the event and how haphazard our planning was (if there actually ever was one). we arrived too late when the balloons had already taken up to the skies, leaving us to make a mad rush from our DIY parking spot to the take-off field. lucky for us DSLR users, we were granted entry into the take-off field beyond the gates and fences that withheld entry for other non-DSLR users. i suppose it felt great to be in the pit, but there was only so much to photograph when i had to juggle between my DSLR, my Contax T2, and giving photography lessons.
juggling two cameras is a daunting task, as i experienced in my recent trip to Genting where i not only had the T2 and 400D to juggle with, but the Diana as well. that trip left me with a roll of cringingly mediocre photos from the Diana and a sense of regret for wasting that expired roll of 120 film (which presumably expired in 1996). yesterday wasn't any different as all i had were a handful of shots compared to my trip last year. i noticed a trend in the decreasing numbers of photos i take for each successive year of attending the same event. it could mean my being bored of the event and how my mind perceives same things i see again as "oh, i've already photographed that". i suppose i'm just over-analyzing my actions, but lately i feel like i don't need to put up 200 photos on FB just to show that i've been to an event. even i wouldn't want to browse through someone's multiple sets of photos of the same event containing 200 photos each! i'm slowly learning how to take less bad shots, and it shows with the amount of photos i come home with after an event at the end of the day.
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