Photowalking

[olivermoss]

The plot thickens in my neighbor's yard













Shooting my beloved yard pumpkins is surprisingly hard. They tend to be tucked behind a lot of vegetation. They ripen under those broad leaves a lot of the time. The light and shadow tend to be super harsh. All that is bad for subject separation. I want to make a folder of my good shots, but I can't find some of my older ones.

My photography is like broken up by eras. Ever since I started my current folder system things are reasonably organized. Some of my older stuff is also well organized. But the shots from *just before* I started my current system elude me. And of my old-old stuff most is gone from a hard drive crash. Still there are some pictures of mine that should exist somewhere that I just cannot find...

I should not have any lost data since the big HD crash and uh, someone wrecking one of my drives for lulz. I have every other external, including one so old it can't run off of USB power and needs to be plugged into the wall. I am very sure I pulled every file off of every laptop I've ever had. Somehow, a few files are just hiding...

Comments

[mxcatmoon]

Great shots! #1 is awesome!

Good luck finding the photos that are missing! I'm sure they're just hiding somewhere.

[olivermoss]

I've done a number of deep dives organization my data but some chunks are managing to hide somehow... Sneaky data.

Also I need to re-org my editing tablet because it's HD is near full. Ack.

[mistressofmuses]

Ooh, liking the neighbor skeletons!

And the rainbow little free library.

Kitty!! So fluffy!

Pictures with the really stark shadows like the pumpkins is super hard. I like the blossoms in the first one here.

Being unable to find a file you KNOW should be there is the worst! I've got a handful of those that are utter mysteries. Where could they have gone!?

[olivermoss]

I've done so many organizational deep dives... and yet chunks are missing!

It may be time to try yet another way to bring a bit of extra light with me. My last two LED devices died pretty fast.

[mistressofmuses]

I feel like for as long-lasting as LEDs tend to be billed as, I've had an awful lot of them die pretty fast on me. (Granted, mostly small decorative things, but still!)

[olivermoss]

Yeah, LED stuff can be amazing, lost lasting, super energy efficient. But a lot of the time they just aren't. The devices I am looking at tend to either be cheap, or hundreds of dollars and comes in a professional hard case. I need something between the extremes.

[mistressofmuses]

To be fair, most of my LED experiences have been with the cheap shit. But there should seriously be some mid-grade options here!