Those surreal movie moments...

Every so often you have one of those surreal movie moments, where time seems to slow down, and you feel like you're watching a movie...

Last weekend was another crazy adventure of hiking, camping and great khorovadz. Lots of stories to tell, but I think I'll just share one. After all was said and done, on the hike back to civilization, someone pointed out Donkey Canyon to us. As we stood over a cliff easily a hundred feet high, maybe a couple hundred, I whipped out my camera one handed and snapped a shot of it. Apparently this is where they used to bring the old donkey and shove them off the cliff when they were no longer useful. A nice, picturesque spot. Worth a shot... but the flash went off, and I was not so pleased with the results. Still one-handed, I pushed the flash off button. I don't know if I succeeded in shutting off the flash, but I did succeed in launching the camera out of my hand. I watched it bounce at my feet, from there it bounced a good one foot and over the edge and went straight down the sheer wall, bouncing off of it once... all in slow motion!

It remains to be seen if I'll have photos of that trip to share with you or not :-)