Death of the Pentax K2....or not

Miss B and I went hiking at Big Basin a few weekends ago on our monthly camping trip. After doing 3 miles straight up into the mountains, we came upon a wonderful clearing with a view of the ocean. I have not yet made it into the digital age, therefore was carrying my old 35mm Pentax K2, which I purchased 6 or 7 years ago when my very first camera (a Richo 35mm) bit the dust. I love film. I love the developing process. I love framing it up in the manual view finder, it's what I know. Went to do all this with my Pentax and shazam, the shutter would not engage. Nothing. Nada. I tried all kinds of different things to get it to work. All the old tricks. No shutter action. No pictures of the beautiful clearing. Well, we did take some with B's digital, I guess I am simply being dramatic. So I said goodbye to my 35mm and was ready to make the transition into the digital age as processing film is expensive and simply not practical anymore. I had embraced this change and was ready.

Until, yesterday, looking at the camera again, it was discovered it wasn't dead at all. The manual shutter lock was on and apparently I couldn't figure that out with the ocean view in front of me, missing out on this photo opportunity. Disengaged the lock. Loaded a new roll of B/W film, and off I was to go shoot more pictures with my trusty old school 35mm Pentax K2.

What does this tell me? 1) Sometimes I am just not very smart. 2) I can still embrace the digital age AND use the old school 35mm. 3) Taking a step back letting some time pass before completely giving up is a good thing. 4) I still love my 35mm camera and can use it whenever I want. 5) Miss B is seriously one of the most patient people on the earth, watching me freak out over my broken love, telling me it's all going to be ok, and to relax. I would have wanted to kill me if I was her!

With this, I will pursue the new digital SLR and hopefully have wonderful film and digital pictures to share on this blog. An old dog can learn new tricks. Yep. Watch me go!