#35, “Get travel luggage for our photo equipment” was not the most exciting of goal to check off our 101 list, but it became absolutely necessary these past few months!  With four destination weddings in 2010, we finally had to breakdown and invest in a good travel bag for our gear.  Traveling with so much high dollar equipment is no easy task.  Our biggest concern was keeping as much of our gear on us at all times to avoid the possibility of losing a checked bag,  so priority number one was to find a case that would hold most of our gear and still be small enough to be used as a carry on.  Say hello to the Tamrac Speedroller 1:

This little baby traveled to Seattle, Portland, San Francisco & Coronado Island with us these past few months.  And, due to a little incident with a can of spray on sun tan lotion in Coronado,  it will forever smell like vacation.  Mr. Speedroller, you’ve already become a fond friend :-)  We were able to pack pretty much everything we needed in this handy little bag, although I liked to have my camera body and a couple lenses on me at all times in case we needed to take a few mid-travel snaps here and there.

That’s where my ever so handy Kelly Moore Bag came in.  I’ve been using this little gray cutie as my primary camera bag for the last 6 months, but boy did it prove that it’s worth it’s weight in gold while traveling.  My absolute favorite feature is the convertible strap which allows you to wear it as a purse that just happens to hold an SLR camera.  Love, love, love it!  I carried this bag the entire time we were traveling, whether for sightseeing, visiting friends or a night on the town.  And of course, when it was time to shoot a session or wedding, I just popped on the other strap.  It’s attractive and fashionable like a regular purse while still meeting the needs of a photographer on the go.  Can’t say enough good things about it!

I’d be one happy camper if a red one of these showed up under our Christmas tree with my name on it :-)  Hint, hint.  A girl can never have too many great purses.

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