Mea Culpa

Here is the Mea Culpa no photographer ever wants to write, I did not do a good job with backups.  

You know, keeping your only version of so many shots safe and protected with intelligent use of backup tools that are so easy to use.  I lost about 3 or 4 months of pictures and that will mean that all that stuff that I was putting off and only had to post will not ever be posted.  

My iMac went down and I had not used Time Machine for about 3 or 4 months.  I will say, that the auto back-up is easy, but it was chewing through the external hard drive space that I used to keep the iMac unloaded.  Then I got busy and had not backed up and the bad luck hit.   

Apple was great, they thought that it could have been a power spike (not covered by the 3 year warranty) but stood behind the extended warranty anyway.  They put in a new logic board, power supply and hard drive anyway.  I don't know that it was a power spike since I have everything on surge protectors and nothing else on the that strip went down. 

This gets interesting, I had thought that I might do better getting stuff done if I bought a MacBook Pro and got my workflow out of the office and mobil.  I bought a MacBook Pro and am putting the iMac up for sale.  Now here is the lucky part, I had already bought the MacBook Pro and had the really important photo shoots on and external hard drive so I could work on them with the new MacBook Pro.  I was behind on the 2 weddings I shot and the family portraits that I did for some friends.  I thought that if I had them mobil I would get more done.  

So, think about your pictures, what would happen if you lost your hard drive?  I had all the old stuff archived on external hard drives, but lost the new stuff.  Down side is I won't be able to load all those images that I shot for me, upside, I am not that behind anymore....  LOL!  

Thanks for looking and think about your backups, boring but it will save you from the gut check when you figure out what you lost.

Day 138, California Poppies

Day 138, California Poppies, originally uploaded by solostandfound.

If you are not down here in Southern Cal, you have missed one of the better years for wild flowers. We had such a green period out here in the IE owing to the rains this year. The poppies have been out in mass.

I am not that great at the Macro end of photography. I have quite a few images that I have thrown out of late because it just was not clicking for me. I think these images did well though.

I must tell you, I really am liking the interface and strengths of Aperture. I know that I am an Apple fan boy and happily pine over every little thing from Cupertino, but this is really the why. Apple makes great products! I love my iMac, iPhone, iPod, MacBook, Leopard (eats Vista for lunch), and now Aperture 2.0. Their stuff works extremely well, and I can concentrate on what I want to do extremely well.

Thanks for looking.
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