I had a goal as today approached: Don’t leave the house. Mission accomplished!
I still haven’t recuperated from our Alaskan vacation! I’m sure my cold has something to do with it, but I just haven’t snapped back yet. Every day has has ended with me still exhausted.
There were still a few goals beyond remaining in pajamas. My Alaskan photos still needed attention.
Before leaving Connecticut I cleared out 100 gigabytes from my laptop’s hard drive. That should have been enough space, right? In a perfect world, yes, but hard drives need a little breathing room. You shouldn’t fill them to the brim.
I ended up using an old iPod I’d brought along as a backup drive! Ask me how scary it was to move the photos there while at sea and then erase the original photo files? Extremely! You can only pray it works.
Today the iPod and laptop’s drives were spooled off onto a 3 terabyte external drive I ordered from NewEgg before we left ($129 including shipping for 3,000,579,911,680 bytes of storage). Nearly three hours just to move the files!
I shot over 6,100 photos in Alaska. It’s less than you think. I shot with reckless abandon. Often the ‘motor drive’ function kicked in. That’s eight shots a second while hoping a whale would flaps his tail or an eagle take to the sky. Most aren’t worth saving.
In Canon’s RAW format that’s 72.3 gigabytes.
My job is to go through each photo day-by-day choosing the best. That’s harder than it seems. I’m hoping to hang onto fewer than 200 shots from the nine days we were away.
Here are the ‘best of’ shots from our whale watching trip out of Juneau. Tomorrow I’ll try and finish the rest and finally post a blog entry from our day in Seattle.
Hope you feel better, Geoff. Great purchase on the external drive – that will give you lots of breathing room.
Saw the montage you posted – lovely pictures!
Geoff,
I’m wondering how many of the 7 lenses you took with you got used? Which one did you use the most? High ASA settings?
Very nice shots.
Used all six I took. Shoot a lot in manual so everything from 100 to 3200.
Just realized how I dated myself with the “ASA settings” better now-a-days knows as ISO.
Suprised you used all those lenses, but not suprised you shot in manual a lot.
Thanks for sharing –love all the shots–I went 4 years ago & took some similar photos–like the sea lions on the buoy! Nice to relive the trip again!
Hi Geoff. Get well. One of my sisters just drove up from Florida with about 12 photo albums in her trunk, offering me the chance to scan them during the week she and her husband are here and make dvds of her family..10 people. A couple of years ago I made family-tree dvds; slide-shows, synchronized with music and it took 3 months (I have 5 siblings, 7 nieces and nephews and 5 “grands”), going through maybe 1,000, so I told my sister and brother-in-law THEY have to weed out the photos and choose; I don’t know who half the people are! I can relate to the storage and memory limitations, especially now, using a laptop only. Going thru them, snapshots or digital, is a lot of work. I’m paranoid about not having negatives, so I save them to cds and dvds with the computer and my recordable dvd player. I’m thinking of going thru a flash drive for the computer, instead, though. I learn as I go, lol. Good luck with your photographic endeavors; you have a good eye!