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Some thoughts to keep in mind with any backup system:
1) Backup often – the goal is to have multiple copies of the file(s) on different storage media and in different places, so that if one of them goes bad, you still have a good copy of it on the other. If it isn’t backed up, you don’t have two copies. Things to avoid: “backing up” to the same device (for example, if your internal hard drive is formatted with two partitions, making a backup to the other partition doesn’t help, because both are on the same device – and if the device fails, you lose both copies.)
2) There should be a backup copy separated by a non-trivial distance. Having both the original and the backup in the same room in your house puts all copies at risk to a house-based disaster (fire, flood, water, tornado, theft). Even storing the backup copy at a friend’s house in the same town isn’t ideal – my cousin lived is Paradise, CA during the Campfire Fire. Almost the whole town burned down, including his house, and his mother’s house, which was some distance away.
3) You should try to recover random images from your backup media on a periodic basis. After all, what good does it do to have a backup copy if you can’t retrieve it? That is, after all, the purpose of a backup.
4) Manage your backups. Label the media, keep track of where the backup copies are, and how to access them. If you can’t find it, you haven’t got it!I use OneDrive (Microsoft’s cloud storage), and store all my images on my local PC. OneDrive offers 1 T cloud storage included in their Office subscription. Apple cloud also has a certain amount of storage for free.
Hardware failure isn’t the worst threat to your images. My biggest loss was from formatting the wrong hard drive when upgrading computers – unaware that it contained the backup (and at that moment, the only copy) of my images.
Atlantic Sunrise – South Daytona Beach, FL August 18-24, 2024 from 4th floor balcony.
And you say I don’t know how to have fun on vacation!
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Atlantic Sunrise – South Daytona Beach, FL August 18-24, 2024 from 4th floor balcony.
And you say I don’t know how to have fun on vacation!
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Atlantic Sunrise – South Daytona Beach, FL August 18-24, 2024 from 4th floor balcony.
And you say I don’t know how to have fun on vacation!
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Selective desaturation – to my eye – works very well for these photos. It makes the golden leaves stand out from the background a lot, while reducing distractions in the background. It also helps to “capture the eye” and keep it looking at the main subject.
And this is the church I wanted to enter…
Calapooia, Oregon church
This church was built in 1906 as a Southern Episcopal Methodist Church (118 years ago), and was bought by the Free Methodist church in 1932 for $100. The picture is from 1954. It served until 1965, when a new church was constructed. It was bought by a neighborhood family, who has restored it and uses it as a wedding venue. It looks much the same today as it did in 1954.
My father served as pastor of this church twice – in the 1950’s (BMT – before my time), and for 9 years from the early 1960’s to early 1970’s. It was my “home church” growing up. No A/C. No bathrooms. Outhouses out back, and people were welcome to use the parsonage’s bathroom.
For more information, go to Newspaper Article
And yes, Dick and Bev Baird and Martha Lee were my Sunday School teachers!Attachments:
NE Indiana is dotted with churches, and has been for a long time. Fort Wayne was known as the “City of Churches” at one time, and we still have a Catholic Cathedral, and many Lutheran traditional churches. The night shot is St. John Lutheran Church along Hwy 27. The White church is a survivor that has had its surroundings go industrial, so beside it, and two early 1900s houses, the rest of the area is warehouses and the like. The brick church (SALEM) was constructed in 1892 to serve a congregation from the German Reformed Church. The profile church, St. Paul Evangelical Church – also originally a German congregation – is 1 1/2 miles West of the SALEM church, and has a date of 1882 on the cornerstone.
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More History – a covered bridge from the late 1800s that you can still drive across in Spencerville, IN
And a park – the Lakeside Park and Rose Garden in Ft. Wayne, INAttachments:
Lighthouses! Historical Buildings.
Fort Casey, Washington (late 1890s)
Marblehead Lighthouse, Ohio (1821)
Major Chief of the Miami Indians, Jean Baptiste de Richarville home built 1828 and part of payment to the tribe for their land in a treaty with the US Government. Fort Wayne, INAttachments:
I submitted locations from Washington, Indiana, and Ohio. I entered two sites that are my absolute favorites. About 15 minutes away from Fort Wayne, Indiana is Auburn, the home of the Auburn Cord Duesenberg corporate headquarters. One entry is for the museum, which is in the former corporate showroom, which is a great example of the art deco style of the early 1930’s. The cars on display here are strictly hands off. Auburn Cord Duesenberg went out of business in 1937. Their last couple of years (especially 36 and 37) saw them produce some of the most iconic, powerful, durable, exclusive, and expensive cars in the world. They were known for setting 24- and 48- hour endurance and speed records, and the Auburn Speedster were tested at at least 100 mph (on public county roads around Auburn) before delivery to the customer. Expensive cars and the economic times did not make a good mix.
However, every year on Labor Day weekend, they hold the Auburn Cord Duesenberg Festival, which includes a parade where these cars are driven (most under their own power) down the streets of Auburn and are displayed for a couple of hours around the courthouse square and neighboring streets. The cars assemble in Eckhart Park before the parade, and for a reasonable admission fee, you can go in – get up close to the cars, and should an owner feel particularly generous allow you to touch, and sometimes even sit in their car. Most are good natured, and love to share information about Auburns, Cords, Duesenbergs, and their car in particular. One time I got to listen in as Jay Leno and an owner were discussing their efforts to re-create the Duesenberg valve cover. I talked with the owner of the Cord owned by movie star Tom Mix.Attachments:
