Enhanced August 2009 Photo Comp Discussion Thread..!!

Are we allowed toned pictures,eg,sepia etc,or does it have to be just B&W ?
Thanks,
/|\ Shea.

 

Thanks WOO,thats all i needed to know.

 

There's a saying that if things go wrong, they'll do so at the worst possible time. They do!
I run, or rather ran, a pretty fast, two year old PC and have two remote drives for backup which is a belt and braces solution to data security. But belts and braces are not much use if you don't use them regularly. Five days ago I had a PC crash - the 'blue screen of doom'. In the past I've always managed to recover from such crashes, but not this time. I'll not go into all the details regarding the failure and attempts at recovery as it would take too long. But the upshot is I've lost two months worth of photos, about four months of emails, my recently paid for virus protection and a downloaded paid for copy of digital imaging software. And until a new PC arrives in about three weeks I'm limping along on a rather slow laptop.

Moral is - backup anything you have that you can't afford to lose and do the backups regularly. It could happen to you.

:(

 

Lesson learnt Dave, but still sad when it happens.
My sad tale was when I lost a years worth of Btech course work when the only hard drive crashed.! It was lucky most of my work was on hard copy, so I guess in a way that is a form of backing up..Thing is now all that hard copy has now been recycled so I have nothing to show for that years work.

Note to self: Back up this months data onto my 2 external hard drives

robert