This might be a bit of an odd post, but it's what's on my mind right now. We returned home from a family reunion and visiting friends/family in the Northwest Arkansas area. Last Wednesday, we made the trip home through Arkansas, Oklahoma and then Texas. We only made a few stops. I have carried my camera in my purse for 6 years (an old version and now a new version of the Canon SD 1200). I did not take any pictures with it Thursday or Friday, and kind of glanced in my purse Saturday, because I knew we'd be taking Father's Day pictures. Didn't see it, but I wasn't worried. It always turns up. Sunday I really couldn't find it, so I began looking all day. Then Monday, then Tuesday started tracking down and calling all the places we had stopped on our way home (and even here in town)--in case it had fallen out of the car. Everyone was very helpful, but there was no camera. 1. Either it is somewhere crazy in my house from my 20-month-old taking it out of my purse, 2. it is laying somewhere unnoticed after falling out of the car 3. Someone has it but does not know how to reach me 4. Someone decided to keep the camera.
Thankfully I had cleared out the card before going on the trip, but of course, I am sad to lose the pictures from that trip. It's not earthshattering, but there were a handful of pictures I had taken of Elizabeth on her 20 month "birthday" that I was in love with. The color, lighting and her personality were all bursting from the photos--I have never been able to catch all of that together before. sigh. And I want my camera!
So, what does one do in this situation? I can't pinpoint the exact city that I might have lost it. And if it fell out in a parking lot, say in Eureka Springs, where would someone have turned it in? I checked the camera "lost and found" websites, but those are difficult to know which one a person might post to.
The lesson I have learned--put your contact information on your camera. Maybe this seems a little scary, because you don't want some pervert trying to find you after seeing your children, but overall, it would at least allow a chance for someone to reach you if he/she is a kind-hearted person. I so wish I had a phone number on my camera at this moment.
Any suggestions from someone else who has been through this? I will let you know if it turns up in my house someday. As people say, keep the camera--but send me the SD card!
1 comment:
Hi friend - my suggestion is to go to 'lost and found'....aka GOD. :) He knows just where it is. Garrett had one of his really expensive cameras stolen back in January. We prayed God would return it and - he did! It's a long story so that's the short version. I will pray God brings your camera to you too. - Allison H
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