I had an anxious hour yesterday, thinking I had lost all the shots from when we migrated to Japan in October 2007 until the end of that year.
However, after searching all the hard-drives and a load of DVD backups, I had a brain-wave and opened the case of my PC tower. Lo and behold, there was the offending article: a hard-drive that used to be external [when the power supply died I put it inside the PC] with its power cable unplugged.
Plugged it back in and all of 2007's shots were back…
It's good to re-visit old RAW files. When I shot this, on December 4th 2007, I'd had my first DSLR for a month. I'd just bought the 80-200mm f/2.8 ED IF lens and this was pretty much the first trip with it: a bus trip up to Fuji's Fifth Station and the lakes around Hakone, with my good friend the composer Joseph Curiale.
This particular shot was taken from the cable-car coming back down from Mount Komagatake.
Great to see these shots again. Processing it now over what I knew how to get out of a NIkon RAW file five and half years ago was a nice benchmark for how far I've come.
Gear?
Nikon D300
Nikkor 80-200mm f/2.8 ED IF
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SATISH SINGH
February 10, 2013
Nice pic
Paolo Pomella
February 10, 2013
Spettacolare
Manuela Azevedo
February 10, 2013
Magnificent!
Gatto NineNineNine
February 10, 2013
=^.^=
Henrik Karlsson
February 10, 2013
Backup! Backup! Backup!
Yoshitsugu Hayashi
February 10, 2013
so beautiful
Wylliam Zacarias
February 10, 2013
Dear Alfie, it is hard to lose facts and pictures from some good moments of the past years , which brought us a lot of happiness . The human brain is not able to save adequately all those old informations and views, unfortunately .
Alfie Goodrich
February 10, 2013
I always backup +Henrik Karlsson Learned that a long time ago. I'm absolutely obsessive about it. Just couldn't figure out where these shots were. It didn't make sense cos I DO backup. At the end of the 'panic hour' figured there must be a drive not switched on somewhere. That was the only explanation. All the external drives were on. One of the internals had a cable adrift.
Shital Sevekari
February 10, 2013
It's always different the way pros crop it. I would have tried to crop the bottom as close as possible so only Fuji-San is in the frame.
Alfie Goodrich
February 10, 2013
This is uncropped +Shital Sevekari. Fuji needs the foreground to give it scale and relevance. The eye needs to reach the mountain across the landscape in the foreground. And I only ever really crop in proportion. Doing that here would have lost so much good material.
John Hoare
February 11, 2013
Jaysis mate…how good is that. That golden glow behind Fuji-san is absolutely epic. In other news, check your email…
Alfie Goodrich
February 11, 2013
Got the email +John Hoare Be great to see you mate.
Shane Smith
February 11, 2013
That's a lot like finding a lost 100.00 bill in an old pair of pants only better!