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B F N E D I T M J R K M S Z A W H K P V D A S J M A R R U D G F R T Z S W O D A H S I B R P W K K O A Z D X V A O A F I L T E R E O P F W U F G O D C D R R R A I L W A Y I L E E A L I N T T T M R F M M L A J R G C A U L I E R A N X B E N C E U V X G P D I J Y K C M S Z K P T E O D S T V B J X M L O R D A O Y U J L P Z O P B C R I L U O B P C Z Y K O N C E T X F T N O T Z C P N P N H T G N E L
One August Friday, the M11 motorway was closed in both directions and the air ambulance had landed on the eerily silent road. I didn’t see the accident but I was six cars from the front of the stopped traffic. During the one-hour wait, I couldn’t help but marvel at the efficiency and effectiveness of the emergency services and of course felt great sympathy for the motorcyclist whose life had just been changed,maybe forever. It shows, as if you didn’t already know this, that in lifewe don’t knowwhat’s round the corner. Anhour is awhile, long enough towrite these words, and the accident has got me thinking about photographic legacy. Again. Stop me if you’ve heard this one before – it is a subject close to my heart – but it is worth having a doomsday strategy in place for your most prized pictures (and not just pictures of course) for the simple reasonwe don’t knowwhat awaits us. Oh, just to reinforce the point, when I got home, that evening’s local TV news carried a storyabout awomanwho lost her house ina fire. No one was hurt but all of her possessions had gone. Shedidn’tmention feeling sadabout losing her TV, watch or sofa but she was desperate about losing the pictures of her children. Whateveryourmotivationfortakingpictures, this is worth a thought. It might be as simple as having two external drives, one backing up the other, and when you go away, the back-up goes withyouor to a friend. Or you couldbuy aRAID drive so if one hard drive does go kaput, one (or more) keeps going. Or you could use a cloud – assuming you have fast broadband. The thing is, you don’t need to back up every picture. It might just be a fewhundred.
One of my plans is to export all the images I truly, truly like as DNG files and these go on to a portable hard drive (which in turn is backed up regularly). A few of these then go into my cloud. It took ages to start with but now I just add files after each shoot, so it’s quite quick. There is no denying that such labour does take time, effort and money, too. But then, how much do you value your pictures? London’s Docklands Light Railway is 30 years old this year. I started a photo project on the DLR two years ago, primarily motivated by the need not to sit at home alone. After 24 visits it is still ongoing. My plan was to stop when I got bored but there is no sign of that. There is so much to shoot and getting the best light with the right combinationof trainsandpeople isa tough, time-sapping but brilliant challenge. My other big project on the country’s piers is also still in progress, but despite that I am already thinking of what next. Viaducts appeal. Amazing structures, usually rich in history, set in landscape (urban and rural) sounds fun and there are plenty all around the UK, too. Big football grounds on non-match days appeal as well; so do wind turbines, glacial landforms and standing stones – but perhaps I should do somethingmore people-orientated. I don't know; we’ll see. Meanwhile, I’m off to back up my latest pictures. Have a safe and productivemonth.
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