Upde Designs

I wasn’t sure how long this was going to take.  I put in a long day Saturday and most of Sunday rebuilding files.  The ironic thing is I’m usually anal about backing up things but for the last few weeks (8 to be exact) I hadn’t done any backing up.  Those files are gone forever.  Some of them were images.  Our last day at the lake is gone.  Only the small 500 pixel images that I posted on the blog are all that remain.

Learn from my mistake.  If it is worth having it is worth backing up.   There is some good news to this accident.  It solved a problem with the way my computer was configured and now that the disk was clean of files I could reconfigure it properly.  Things are also better organized and I put in new procedures to make sure my hard drives get backed up every week.  The silver lining to this event was the database that I have built since 1984 was safely installed on a different drive.  I didn’t discover that until Friday morning and that was such a relief.

On the way home from work Friday evening I drove by the Hurstville Kilns, which I do practically every evening.  This evening I saw the flowers were in full bloom and looking vibrant.  This was the first time I had really noticed their color this year.  So I did a U turn and went back.

I love the colors and even though the light was still pretty harsh I was happy with the way they turned out.  I knew that I wasn’t going to get any shooting in over the weekend so I’m glad I stopped.

It is good to be blogging again and I am grateful that you stopped by for a look.  I am so connected with my laptop and the files on it that it was very unsettling to be without it.  No access to e-mail, the internet or for that matter my digital darkroom.

Anyway I’m happy to have things somewhat back to normal.  Thanks for stopping by.  Enjoy your week and be careful.