(more) Fall Fungi

This is another shot from last weekends' trek through the trail at UBC - a.k.a. the fungi field trip. There's still maybe a shot or two from that afternoon that might find it's way here. Hopefully this won't bore anyone too much. There won't be any new bird shots for a while though, because...

Although late in the day, I did get out to shoot a bit on Saturday. Unfortunately, when I was packing up my equipment at the end of the day my wonderful long lens (100-400mm) fell from about 5½ feet and now doesn't work - it won't focus (auto or manual). I can adjust the 'focus' near or far, but it won't focus even remotely sharply.

I've always known that sooner or later some piece of my equipment would get damaged. I've fallen with it a couple of times (broke my own ribs once as a result, but saved the camera from harm), and once had my camera with lens attached fall out of my backpack onto asphalt, all without any significant damage to any of it. I guess my luck had run out though... Of course it had to be the most expensive lens in my bag! It's now at the camera shop waiting to be shipped out to the wizards at Canon to take a look at and see if it's fixable or not - for a hefty fee, of course. In the meantime, I suppose I'll just have to get reacquainted with my other lenses for a while (they say 4-6 weeks).

[Oh, forgot to mention - this shot has been sized/cropped a little differently than normal. It has been properly sized to fit a 1024x768 screen, making it more suitable for a desktop background, for those so-inclined. Click on it first to bring up the full-size image though.]

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