It’s been nearly two weeks, and I’m still in mourning for the photos that were inside the (crummy, old) digital camera that was lost … click HERE to read more in my column this morning. Even though I now have a snazzy new camera, and can print those photos right here at home (thanks, honey), I’m still so sad about the memories I’ve lost. Fortunately, I can keep making new ones. But still ….
Responses to “The pictures I’ll never see.”
February 18th, 2008 at 8:34 am
I guess “You shouldn’t leave photos just on your camera card without downloading them” wouldn’t help you feel better, huh? Still, in the hopes of preventing someone else from doing the same thing I’m going to say it: NEVER leave the only copy of something on a portable device! Never never never! I have a friend who lost a whole NOVEL that way, when he left his fancy computer/phone gadget on a bus. Always make backups! You back up your other computer data, don’t you?
Now that that’s out of the way, I’m really sorry you lost your photos. That’s terrible. After two weeks it’s unlikely you will get them back, but maybe someone will see the article.
February 19th, 2008 at 11:52 am
Kalisa - having digital photos doesn’t mean you can’t have photo albums. When we went to Alaska two years ago, everyone in the group took digital cameras. When we got home, we made CDs of our pictures for everyone in the group, and they did the same for us. I took the pictures I wanted from all the CDs and got prints at Walgreen’s. The prints are now in a scrapbook - you can’t tell that they weren’t taken on film. Some of the online photo sites, like Shutterfly, will allow you to upload your pictures and create photo albums on their site, which they will print and send to you.
February 17th, 2008 at 5:36 pm
I have an irrational fear of digital photos. I love the convenience of it - not waiting for development, emailing them to friends & family. But I have a really insecure feeling of not having photo albums any more like I do from My Kid’s early years. I’m trying to back them all up on CDs and put the discs in a fire-safe box, but obviously this is a project that I haven’t gotten very far on…