What's in your Camera bag?

There's a blank space where the spare body w/28-135 goes. It was taking the photo. I also have a rolling pelican case for travel and on the water, and a smaller bag if I'm going to be doing a lot of walking and not carrying much gear. In another large rolling plastic case I keep my lighting gear: 2-750w/s monolights, umbrellas, stands, soft box, strip box, reflectors, extension cords, tape, pocket wizards, orbus ringlight, exposure target, and various other junk. A couple vagabonds are next on the gear list.

Mine contains:
Safety pins (for dress and undergarment mishaps)
Clear tape (for temporarily repairing rips in dresses)
Visine (for dry/red eyes)
Clear lipgloss with wand applicator (the wand can apply the lipgloss to the finger to put on the lips = sanitary)
White sheet (to put under wedding dress to keep in clean)
White umbrella
Oil blotting sheets (Mary Kay makes the best, to blot shine from skin)
Mints (for kissing shots or for myself in case I have to get close up shots)
Bottle of water
protein bar
cell phone
keys

Oh yeah... and my lens, my camera doesn't fit, it hangs around my neck

I have my camera body, 3 lens (lenses?), battery charger, tripod mount, plus various cables for the computer/tv and the instruction manual. I have a flash that has its own case too. :-)

 

Forget the fieldtrip to show Susie the town. We need to get Ryan shooting again!

(then we'll show Susie the town)

Yup.  On one of our first dates we went out to a state park and she used one of my cameras and she got hooked.  When we were doing weddings we shot together.  A year old daughter doesn't leave a lot of time for shooting for fun that doesn't involve her.  Most of what I've shot in the past year has been of my daughter using an iPhone. 

Last time I shot I had 2 bodies, a 12-24mm, 24-40, and 70-210 - all Sigma EX.  Plus a handful of batteries, cards, and all the stuff that goes with it.  Our wedding bags had an assortment of Advil, Tide sticks, safety pins, and that sort of thing.  Lens rags are the thing most likely to get lost when shooting.

Ryan's got a new baby and mines just about grown up. We were figuring out the financing for college last night. Kinda sad to be 33 and consider it too late to have more kids.

I have 5 grown kids and 6 grandkids. 

I've started packing my camera bag. Thus far, it has a lot of what you all have stated, but I also have business cards (you never know), a small nikon coolpix for those hard to reach macro shots, and a tiny drawing pad for when the inspiration hits.

Ryan, I think you and I are really close in age. If I remember correctly.

Notepad? I'm hating paper right now. I should either use my phone or something to jot down ideas, because they come and go a lot. But then again I seem to have a lot of big ideas that I know aren't feasible. I could fill a book with crap I'll never do.