When I sat down last night to edit my photos for this week’s SiMC, I had a full-blown panic attack… I feared that the above photo was all I’d get to share. My 4+ year old laptop is in her final death throes. While this is a First World Problem, I’m more than a little twitchy about the fact that all my photos, raw and edited, are stored on my curmudgeonly aluminum Mac… all 16,000 of them. And yes, you read that right – SIXTEEN THOUSAND.
The Mister set up my laptop to automatically back up to our external hard drive, but I’ve never tested it to make sure it was working right. Needless to say, I’m worried about saving my files. We have some work ahead of us today.
As for my Sunday set, I thought I could point out that I featured several photos from the past week in other posts:
Like Saturday’s recap of my 365Project shots, or my attempt at Conservation humor with Three Little Pigs. I got a smidge dark in Last Flight, but each post was illustrated by recently snapped photos.
On Sunday morning, when I tried once again to coax my Mac to cooperate, much to my surprise, she allowed me to move a select number of photos to a thumb drive. I didn’t want to be greedy, so I copied the raw images I meant to share today, and a couple more I wanted to use this coming week.
I have our home computer and my daughter’s old laptop to work with, but it’s just not the same. My beloved MacBook has seen me through some good and bad times. I will mourn her.
Here is my abbreviated Sunday in My City offering, taken on the drive home from a visit with my College Kid in North Carolina. I took all of these with my camera phone, so the quality of the images is not great. (If you follow me on Instagram, you may have already seen most of these too.)
(Photos shot with a Nikon D60, using an 18-55mm, 55-200mm, 20mm f/2.8 wide-angle, 50mm f/1.8 prime lens, Nikon CoolPix S205 and/or iPhone4)
For more photos, please visit my Flickr photostream or my 365 Project Page.
To see other city scenes from around the world, check out Unknown Mami’s Sundays in My City. Don’t forget to show the love to Mami and the other City contributors.
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So sorry to hear about your Mac… hopefully you will be able to find something new – love the duck crossing pic!
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Oh no I hate that heart leap moment when you think it might be all gone. *sends self reminder to back up when we get home.
Mollyxxx
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Crossing my fingers and toes and hoping that your backup works and you still have all of your wonderful photos. Good luck. xo
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I understand your panic Tara. Nothing worse than losing your valued files. These computers will kill us, I swear. I hope you can retrieve your files. Great pics. ~Joy
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I hope you were able to recover your pics.
I love the sunset shot.
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The first photo reminds me of chromatography.
Love the ducks (geese? I didn’t look closely enough I guess) crossing the road.
And those storm clouds look like they could produce some EXTREME weather. Fierce.
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Oh no! I hope you get to retrieve your files from the dying Mac. What a bummer if all those 16T are gone.
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Tara I feel ya, every time I go out on a shoot, I end up with 4-18 gigs of photos when I get back, and I do that 3-7 times a week! They add up quickly. I hope your little Mac will let you get inside enough to get things out.
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Yes! The sky shots are the best. First world problem or not, your computer problem is still real. I feel like the phrase “first world problem” has been used to replace the mother’s lament “the starving children in Ethiopia would love your broccoli”. It’s not that the children aren’t starving there. It’s not that the crisis in the African Bread Bowl is any less real. It’s not that this crisis is somehow less than anything in our own lives. It’s that the two are unrelated. It isn’t fair to compare apples and oranges, and the phrase ‘first world problem’ diminishes problems in our world rather than putting them in perspective.
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I love the sky shots. 16,000! Wow. I hope your hard drive back-up has been working and your photos are safe.
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