This weekend I am up in the Grand Marais area with my friends Steve and Dennys for a photography weekend. We went out shooting today and the weather wasn’t cooperating. We had a lot of grey and dull everywhere, but we persevered.

We shot a bunch in the morning out at Artists Point in Grand Marais and while I was shooting Steve and Dennys busted me for very bad camera management. Of course they photographed me in the act.

Person in a red jacket kneeling on snow-covered rocks beside a rough winter sea, hunched over a camera in falling snow.

Do you see all of my mistakes? Oh boy.

Person in red jacket holding Canon camera with lens tilted up in snow, three circled areas numbered 1-3 highlighting camera care mistakes

Let me share to help us all be better camera owners.

In circle 1 you can see that I’m actually tilting my 70-200mm lens upwards allowing the hood to catch as much snow as possible and direct little flakes onto the front to melt.

Circle 2 highlights that I have the entire imaging assembly of my camera open and exposed to the elements.

See circle 3 in my camera bag? Yeah, another lens with no cap on the rear element letting more snow accumulate and screw up future photos.

Consider this a public service announcement for us all. 😀