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by Bill Caulfeild-Browne

  December Storm, Tobermory, Ontario
M9, 35 mm Summilux M ASPH, ISO 320
Powerless, I watched as the thief forced open the trunk of my rental car and removed the spare tire – and then my camera bag. I could do nothing but witness the crime as I was standing at the twelfth-floor window of an office building overlooking the parking lot in San Francisco. Of course I called the police but the unsub was long gone by the time they arrived. Gone with him were my Mamiya 1000, a few lenses and several rolls of film of surfers in Hawaii, where I had been for the weekend. I’ll never know how they turned out. I didn’t get much sympathy from the police who figured the thief was boosting spare tires and in a moment of serendipity (for him), grabbed my camera bag too.
Nor, on returning to Toronto, did I get much sympathy from my dealer. He said the bad guy had done me a favor, and why didn’t I consider replacing the Mamiya with a real camera...

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Bill Caulfeild-Browne is a retired business executive who has been a photographer and a lover of nature for most of his life. He is presently Chairman of the Nature Conservancy of Canada. He has published two books - "Images & Origins" and "Wild Canada".He recently supplied many of the photographs for “Ecology: A Canadian Perspective”. His website may be seen at www.billcaulfeild-browne.ca
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