About Me

Hello and welcome to my blog. I am an amateur photographer from Newcastle upon Tyne. I live with my husband, Graeme, alongside our 7 dogs, 3 cats and 2 ferrets. We are both interested in dog agility and I have recently started some gundog training. As well as our own dogs, I run a dog walking and pet care service. I am also studying canine behaviour and training, so always have a dog or two as a good photographic subject. I have completed two basic photography courses as well as a night photography course, to try to improve my existing skills, as well as develop new skills and find some new subjects for my photography. I shoot most of my photos with a Nikon D3000. I have two lenses - the 18-55mm 1:3.5-5.6 and the 55-300mm 1:4.5-5.6. I mainly use the 55-300 lens, as it covers most bases for the type of photography I enjoy. I also have a Nissin Di622 Mark II flashgun and have recently been gifted a Manfrotto tripod.

Wednesday, 21 March 2012

Learn to Back Up My Files!!!

I am absolutely hopping mad today. I had a free-ish afternoon and instead of doing the long list of jobs around the house, I decided to take my camera on one of my local walks to Jesmond Dene. It was a sunny, warm day and I had a lovely afternoon, exploring and discovering new parts of the Dene I had never seen before.

As the Dene was relatively calm, I decided to try to get some reflections of the trees in the water as a new technique for my photographic skills. I was out a good 2.5 hours and took over 400 photos. Got back and had a quick look through. Quite a few that could be binned straight away, but I was pleasantly surprised by how my reflection photos had turned out. Instead of backing up my photos, I left them on the memory card and quickly washed the dishes before I settled down to edit my favourite photos.

Uploaded the photos to Adobe Photoshop Elements and only 109 appeared. Checked and re-checked and that was all that was on the memory card. Somehow most of my photos had been wiped and of course, all of my favourites had completely vanished. I am kicking myself that I didn't back-up my files as soon as I could.

At least I now have an excuse to go back and take some more photos. Here are the couple of photos that were worth keeping, all from the banqueting hall that is now a ruin but still has some lovely features.






I will most definitely be backing up my photos straight away next time.
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  1. BornAgainBiker14 April 2012 at 03:07

    Photos, like all info on a HDD, Disc or card rarely get wiped. When you delete a file even by accident it is usually only the header which gets removed the remainder of the file remains. This is why professional disc wipers write zeros all over the disc.
    Freely available software like Recuva can undelete files as long as you do not try and save more files over the top. It is always useful to have this type of software sitting on your computer in any event.

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