Photographers don’t call it clicking we call it “shooting” but there is no destruction and it’s really just a term… really!
Well no not really, thanks to the glorious howling wind (my worst of the elements by far!!!) down at Camps Bay in the Western Cape one of my flashes has a smashed LCD rendering it pretty useless! Normally a strobe on a stand does not have enough surface area to get blown over, not this time! The wind was the strongest I’ve personally experienced. I did wedge the flash stand into a rock with my bag on the other side and it seemed sturdy till I stopped paying attention, a quick gust and it was all over!
Ordinarily I would have been one hell of a lot more grumpy were it not for Aga who had contacted me through my website to do some portrait shots of her for her husband Sanjay.
The wind was blowing hard enough to make the big bad wolf cower like a frightened mouse in a corner, even with the loss of the flash (a Nikon SB28) the resulting images eased the pain! What was supposed to be a portrait shoot turned out photos more akin to a fashion shoot thanks to Aga and the stunning dress she was wearing!
This of course serves me right for not taking an assistant along, last time I make that mistake! Or I could bill a new flash into each shoot? Too much do you think ?? 
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Greg…did you steal my SB-28?….I’ve got one that looks (post-destruction) exactly the same!
Wahahahahhaha! Yeah that noise a few nights ago was not the cat!
I’ve got a SB 600 that has this same marks…they must be brothers…
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