Did I drop a camera and break it? If you believe this blog is named after a dropped camera, well, that isn’t the case. Broken Camera PDX was named after a photography mishap back in 2006 that involved one element called Murphy’s Law.

On May 21, 2006, the 499-foot Trojan Nuclear Plant cooling tower was scheduled for demolition with explosives. I was at the scene with one digital SLR camera and one analog video camera. After several test shots with the dSLR and making some minor adjustments, the camera experiences a firmware failure two minutes before the tower’s implosion, and no backup dSLR camera was available. The implosion happens, the tower crashes to the ground, and I go home with a video only and no photographs.

Broken Camera PDX is  the place where I share my stories and photography. Please feel free to chime in on the comment forms throughout the blog.

About the photographer/author: Bryan Dorr is an amateur photographer and writer from Milwaukie, Oregon. He is a network operations center technician in the Portland area. Bryan enjoys hiking and traveling in the Pacific Northwest with his two Labradors. He also enjoys long bicycle rides and writing on the blog.

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