Folders and files . . .

I recently decided to change my photographic filing system from a yearly catalog to a subject catalog. The initial results are that i have a thousand or so folders all in alphabetical order with many many different names on the folders. To get them organized into subject folders will take, god, i don't know ... maybe a year or two if i spend a couple hours a day working at organizing them. On one hand it is a never ending task and on the other i'm becoming familiar with photos i've forgotten i had. This is allowing me to throw out many files which are clearly not usable or (almost) duplicates of other photographs. Also, i've not been key wording photos which is essential if i want to locate them easily and this is a good opportunity add those words.

And the volume of photos has now grown to such a size that the 5TB hard drive will no longer hold all of them. So, i'm backing up to two 6TB drives with the master drive being 8TB. I'm sorta o.k. with only two backups but prefer three so at some point i'll purchase another 8TB ... the prices on them have dropped to such a low, there really isn't any excuse for a photographer not to have everything backed up to the degree she wants.

I'm still struggling with creating a NAS so i can access the photographs from anywhere outside the house. I just don't know enough about such to put it into action. If someone reading this knows about creating a NAS home system, i'd love to hear from you.

And that brings up the next item i'm struggling with ... this blog. I like this format as its easy to use, to put the photos in that i want to show, etc.. However, it seems next to impossible for others to comment and i don't know why. I just asked my wife to comment on this blog to learn how easy or not it is.

I need comments - its helps me know where i'm heading and how the road is holding up.

O.K., that's enough for now.

Really?

Ice

Yesterday, Sun, we work to icicles hanging off of everything. It had lightly rained during the night and then froze in the early morning hours. This is the first i've seen ice hanging from the bushes and trees and i got out my camera, etc and proceeded to create some photographs. I've not worked with icicles before now and didn't do a very good job considering how much potential there was. I only got one i liked:

And if you click on the upside down icicle, you'll see the neighbors house across the street at the top. I thought that might be happening when i was photographing but wasn't sure until i got it into my computer.

I did one other that was o.k.:

But like the ad says, "O.K. isn't enough" with which i certainly agree.

I'll continue practicing that kind of photography so i'm ready when the next rain freeze shows up.