WildShots

What’s riding shotgun while you’re driving?

Posted on 08. Jul, 2009 by Paul Burwell.

It’s summer here in the northern hemisphere and it is a time when a lot of people decide to take a road trip. Summer’s a time when I too spend a lot of time on the road and I recently got home from about a 3,300 kilometre (~2,000 mile) road trip. Usually when I’m on a trip my timelines are fairly tight and I don’t have a lot of time to take a meandering path or wander too much. But, regardless of where I’m travelling, there is one constant about the trip, and that’s…

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Learning the digital darkroom – This just in, RAID is NOT a backup system

Posted on 02. Feb, 2009 by Paul Burwell.

Learning the digital darkroom – This just in, RAID is NOT a backup system – Surf the various boards on the Internet long enough and you’re bound to stumble across a conversation or two about disk storage. The great thing about digital photography is that you get to experiment without a lot of the cost. The down side is that those digital photos start taking up a lot of disk space. All disk drives will fail. They are mechanical devices and it is only a matter of time. When you realize this and you start getting serious about your photography to the point that you don’t want to lose your images…

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