Dear film negatives,
We had it so good together. You never just disappeared.
Sorry I left you.
-Scott
So I kept shooting, and dumped all of the photos onto our 50-gazillion-gig external hard drive, where they were safe from accidental deletion or a laptop crash. Good move, right? Not quite.
The other day the seemingly reliable external hard drive crashed and, barring some unforeseen "Duh!" moment or a costly attempt to salvage whatever is left in the black box, we have lost all of our photos -- everything from Elise's first year, not to mention all we've photographed over the past several years.
Those family photos? Gone.
Pictures from a memorable Maine vacation last summer? Wiped away like the tide.
Christmas pics? Adios.
Random snapshots? Poof.
So, yeah, this obviously is a bit of a bummer. Figures, though. Friggin' technology -- you work fine one moment, crap out the next. Ludditity doesn't seem so ridiculous right about now.
There is a tiny bit of good news in this, however. As you know, I've posted many photos of Elise on the blog over the past year. I can save those again and get some prints made.
I think I'll get on that before Google decides to kill off its blog program.
In the meantime, maybe I should dig out that film camera that is packed away in the attic.
2 comments:
Sorry :( Are you sure you can't send it to one of those drive recovery places? I use Flickr! and carbonite and I still worry about loosing pictures. I've tried deleting the 99 bad ones but unless they are really blurry, I think the bad ones are still too good to delete. Maybe there is still hope for the hard drive? Maybe send Ken a message and see what he recommends?
Ouch! Yeah you aren't backed up unless you have original plus two backups in two places! One onsite and one offsite! If you want to send me the bad drive, I have some tricks and tools I can use to try to recover the data.
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