I’m really hard on my cameras. Lenses, I coddle to death but camera bodies get banged around, dropped, rattled, bumped. And because I like to have a camera on me at all times, it tends to be the one that can sustain the most damage. Therefore, my “bang around” camera is the D80, demoted from main camera to backup camera and finally to “oh, do I still have that?” camera. So it sits in my purse and comes out when I’m bored or on the metro and cursing myself for not doing more street.
I unloaded some photos on my now infrequently-used “cheapie” camera. (It’s kind of neat that my “cheapie” camera cost me $800 a couple years ago – we photographer people have to think about gear in the thousands at this point.) There were two keepers and they have remarkably similar compositions, so I figured I’d throw them on the internets. These were taken about a month apart.
I had to do some more metro riding last night and today, so I again busted out my camera on the trains. I do believe all of these are also from Washington D.C.’s L’Enfant Plaza station.
