heartbreak on the shenandoah

All good things must come to an end; this old adage didn’t mean much to me until tragedy struck.  Two weeks ago the zoom on my dear camera, a Panasonic Lumix, stopped working properly. This was hard to deal with, but things took a turn for the worst this past Saturday.  I took it tubing, which I have done many times before, but this time it got water logged. I placed it in a dry sack just I have done every time before, but it seems I did not close the sack properly or the sack now has a leak because about half way through the 4 hour float I pulled out the camera to find that it wouldn't turn on and the LCD display was full of water.  My heart sunk and I gingerly held it in my hand for the remainder of the float, hoping to revive it.   Upon arrival at home I placed it in a bag of rice hoping again to dry it out, but alas when I just took a look at it, there is still water in the LCD screen.

My Lumix was a dear friend; one might even say we had a 5 year love affair. During our years together we had many joyful adventures and captured many memories. This friend traveled/road tripped to 49 states with me, and sadly won’t be making it to number 50 this year.  I loved My Lumix and am sad to see it go.   The Lumix is survived by his loving parents Joey and Elisabeth and will be missed by all. Here is a photo montage of some of our favorite memories together, it was very hard to limit it to just these.

Left, above and below- Savannah, GA

Santa Monica Sunset

Las Vegas

The Grand Caynon

Boston, Mass.

Inside Passage, Alaska

Bryce Canyon, Ut

"Jump" Arches National park,
winner of PC World Photo Contest

Shenandoah Nat. Park

July 2011- Lightning Storm

Burlington, Vt

above and below, sunset at Badlands Nat. Park, SD

Swimming with Stingrays, Cayman Islands

Trying to get a Family Photo
before my brother was Deployed to Iraq

Being tucked in by Dad who's in Iraq

Cherry Blossoms DC

Washington Monument

Winter 2009-2010

Playing the the snow!

After looking to find my favorite Photo's, I realized perhaps this is the real reason I love my Lumix so much! The ability to capture the memories with the people I love.