Lesson Learned #3 – Back yourself up

A major concern of photographers in the digital age is storing and handling of images. Today’s cameras take photos that turn in to huge files on your computer. Hard drives can only handle so much and hard drive failure is a common occurrence. I know this and have been doing a pretty decent job of keeping things backed-up. Pretty decent, like about 75%. Which means I lost 25% of my stuff last week when my hard drive crashed. I use Flickr for online storage, have recently signed up with Dropbox and use external hard drives, the key is taking the time to upload and transfer files. They say it’s not “if” but “when”…so when the time comes will you be prepared?

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Thought I lost a whole bunch of my kiddos pics, found them on a memory card!