Serendipity

Never delete quickly or willy-nilly!

Well, maybe in some instances. . .  but I learned a lesson today that I want to pass on.  I wanted to find some RAW images from a trip to Venice this past April, so went to the place I normally would put them, my Aperture 2009 Library.  Oddly enough, they weren't there.  No Album, no Project, no sign of any.  

I then used Spotlight to search by date & type, no luck.  Then I remembered that I had offloaded the pictures to my laptop computer and figured they were still there.  Some were, but not all.  And not enough.  So, starting to panic, I kept looking on the laptop and the MacPro.  I had a name of an image as modified, just not the original file, so I searched on the number and found the whole set of images in a folder for Venice09 on an external harddrive in a folder "Duplicates to Trash?"  WHEW!  Thank goodness it almost takes an Act of Congress to get me to toss things, even after months.  

This just solidifies my default mechanism of saving until I'm absolutely sure I don't need them.  Or at least not without burning to CD or DVD backup copy.

Clyde Herring's photos from World War II and in POW camp in Poland

We visited Poland in July and made a special trip to Szubin, the city/town in Poland where the Germans had a prisoner of war camp.  It was Oflag 64, a POW camp for officers only.  My father was with the 34th Division in North Africa and fought in Tunisia and was captured, marched to Poland and interned at this camp through the rest of the war.  

I've created four pages on this topic at my MobileMe account:

    CEH in World War II [Camp Claiborne, LA. training]

    CEH in North Africa and POW camp  [after shipped to N.Africa, going thru battle & then onto camp]

    Life in the POW Camp in Szubin, Poland  [activities created to pass the time]

    and from our trip this year, pictures of Szubin in July 2009, the remaining camp buildings and a memorial to those who were there and others, from 1939 to 1945

    Szubin, Poland in 2009

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Cloud formations in Iowa

I just uploaded some pictures of various clouds [mostly cumulous but some looking suspiciously like tornadoes on the way] to my Flickr site [VictoriaJZ] - some of the cloud formations are, sort of, Iowa mountains...you need to squint a bit though.

Some images are uploaded on Flickr

under VictoriaJZ.  Many just for fun or of occasional events or trips.