Yesterday, I had the worst computer crash I'd ever experienced. Fortunately, I didn't lose any data, since the hard drive itself wasn't affected, just the operating system, and all of my applications.
After my iMac Pro went down and would not start back up on Sunday night, I spent pretty much all of yesterday reinstalling the OS, restoring from my latest Time Machine backup, upgrading to the latest Mac OS (Monterey), then fixing and updating all of my apps.
The good thing was that all of my photos, sound libraries and other important content lives on a number of external drives, RAID/Network drives and in shared folders like Dropbox, so even if the main drive went down, I'd still have minimal loss.
That's a good reminder to keep all the important stuff in separate places and often in multiple places. (I use a
Synology DiskStation for my main photo backup.) The reality
is that even if you go years without any computer problems, there's always the chance that something that go wrong. Better safe than sorry, right?
Good news is, I'm up and running again. Big *whew!*
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So... it's back to photography today, with a free lesson from my
Photography on the Brain Series for you. It's a lesson that explains how you can use the concepts of
Unity, Variety, Repetition,
Contrast and
Scale in your imagery to create more compelling and dynamic compositions.
Thanks for watching and have a great week!
