Ever Ready...

Nope, I'm not talking batteries here...unless it's the ones in your camera. I've missed out on so many potentially good photo-opportunities for the lack of the right hardware! My phone has a camera yes but frankly it's pretty rubbish and anyway my phone is always buried deep in the bottomless pit I call a handbag.

So I've made myself an early New Year's resolution (and one that I hope will be easier to keep than the usual lose weight / get fit rubbish). I promise from this day on that I will always carry my camera, wherever I go.

The camera in question will be my gorgeous little G9...much easier to pack than an SLR and less obtrusive in an urban environment, should I pluck up the courage to engage in a little candid street photography.

I actually started this resolution on Thursday. I snapped a lovely sunrise on the way out of our village on the school run...very pink and pretty. On Friday the sunrise was so glorious that in spite of being seriously late already I stopped to capture it. My five-year-old son is so used to my eccentricities that he barely batted an eyelid.

My G9 is already packed for tomorrow, with its battery charged, so when opportunity knocks I'll be poised to shoot.