Pay For Your Own Lens
Value What You Have

Solomon dropped his camera when he went photography at the end of March. The lens of the $1,700 camera was damaged.

I did not send his camera for repair. I did not buy any lens for him. He stopped taking photograph. I reminded him to take good care of the camera when I bought it for him. At that time, my most expensive camera was only $500.

About three months later, he asked me to go to a camera shop to look for lens. He has collected the money of the Chinese New Year ang-bao and some saving of his pocket money. It was about two hundred dollars.

We went to Sim Lim Square and could not get what he wanted. Then we went to Peninsula Plaza. He got the lens he wished to have. I gave him a hundred dollars to make up enough for him to buy that lens. The shop-keeper recommended him other camera accessories. He told the shop-keeper that let him save enough money first.

He has experienced that he needed to really take good care of what he owned. He could not go for any photography outing for almost three months.

The pictures below were taken on 27 July with his new lens. We spent a good Sunday afternoon taking photographs.


16.08.2008