A Lesson In Memory Cards

And a happy new year to you all. Let’s hope everyone had a fabulous christmas break. I’m excited to see what challenges 2009 bring me, and I hope you are too.

On to the title of this post. A Lesson In Memory Cards.
In my last post, I promised to be taking pictures of the Winter Wonderland in Cardiff. And I did! I was treated to an array of spectacular scenes which I happily snapped and shot, getting some of my best work yet. Unfortunately, the memory card I was using, went bad. Thanks largely to the cold, and condensation, which effectively wiped the card or at least destroyed anything usable. Thankfully SanDisk were excellent with their service as usual, and replaced the card free of charge. Unfortunately however they were only able to retrieve two of the 300 or so shots that were on the card. The recovered ones were, unfortunately, ones that I decided I could not use, and the remaining photos, were badly damaged, completely irreparable or otherwise, trashed. So, a lesson to all. Shoot twice, and spread over different memory cards, rather than just one. (Which also means I’ve invested in a few more cards to see me through the year)

It was not a total loss however. The winter season did in fact bring me a treat at the local park, where a fountain, had frozen solid midstream. I’m still making final adjustments to these images to make them web friendly, however I’m very pleased, and look forward to displaying these new pictures.

The christmas landscape did not go to plan. Couple client and server issues, and that means the render has only just managed to complete. At half the quality I wanted it at. Nevertheless, I am re-rendering the image now and will be uploading that in the next few days to the site.

So, despite learning a very hard lesson, I’ve been rewarded with some spectacular pictures, because thankfully, I remembered the camera whilst walking the dog.

Happy New Year!