One or two regular readers of barganews have already noticed and pointed it out … the quality of images on the site took a dip recently. It was especially noticeable on O’Connor’s Daily Images site. Something was not quite right somehow.
O’Connor is not known for being the most cheerful looking person on the planet. It would appear that his face in repose carries what could only be described as a scowl. In fact, he’s actually quite a cheerful soul, it’s just that his face seems to deny it BUT this past week he has been wandering through Barga Vecchia with a very dark cloud hovering cartoonlike over his head.
It turns out that his trusty Canon EOS 5D was starting to play up and he had no choice but to send it to be repaired. The last time this happened it was away for three months. The thought of another three months without the EOS 5D was sending him slowly but definitely round the bend.
Luckily a couple of other photographers noticed his discomfort and stepped into the breach with the loan of their own camera equipment.
So a big thank you to Paolo Marroni and Jesse Henry for their generosity which kept the images flowing on the site.
This week, the company repairing the camera in Perugia – Fotocheckup did an amazingly professional and fast job and yesterday, O’Connor could be seen once more with his trusty Canon EOS 5D slung across his right shoulder and this time what could easily be misconstrued as a smile across his face as he took the camera for a test ride up in the hills around Barga.
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Any chance we could see a picture of his smiling face?
Great to hear about the 5D coming back… nothing terminal I guess? Now if we could figure out a way to get the MK ii behind that 5D.