Lost Photos

Well, the inevitable has happened, again. We've lost another 1GB memory card :(

I say inevitable, because considering the thousands of times we've put our cards in readers in hundreds of different internet cafes over the course of the trip, it's pretty good odds in our favor that this is only the second time. I keep telling myself, "They were only beach photos." But that's not really true. They were our best few days of shooting in our entire two weeks in Goa.

Here are some images vividly imprinted in my memory that you'll never see - Darin getting painted blue at a Holi festival dance party (at least we have a blurry one); Videos of dancing party-goers covered in colored powder; Beautiful, Goan-style homes with seashell windows and other unique detailing; Sparkling white, colonial churches set against blue sky + green palms; Outrageous sunset on the beach with purple + white clouds mirrored on the wet sand and Darin and I in the middle of it; Thatched beach shacks at sunset; 360 videos of various beaches from our beach-chair vantage point.

Besides that bit of bad news, what's made it even more disheartening is that we're working with only one camera at the moment - Darin's wonderfully reliable Canon Powershot A620. While I am on my second camera of the trip that has crapped out for completely inexplicable reasons - no dropping, no water, no nothing! (I have taken thousands of photos with the camera, so I guess I can't be too hard on it) Looking online it seems that the light sensor (CCD) is a common point of failure on Casio digicams when in dusty or humid conditions. (Hmmm, that pretty much sounds like my shooting conditions throughout all of Southeast Asia + India. It would be nice if a camera was designed to be dependable in the "real" world.) I've brought it to a repair shop here in Mumbai (Bombay) and am keeping my fingers crossed that they can fix it.

Check the "link" for the photos from Goa we DID manage to save