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Where was I on May 21, 2008?  

Watching a bear cub nap.  Is there a better thing to do?  I realized today I had a few photographs that I had not reviewed and graded for archiving.  Talk about day dreaming in color!  The photo above was taken with my 600mm lens at about 60 yards.  Mom was about 40 yards further.  The little guys are so active that it is pretty difficult to compose.  I remember the weather, odors and who was with me.  A great memory and a better photo to back up the memory.   The net is a very large number of shots.  About 40GB just with this adventure with mom and cubs.  It's very important that all your photo's are graded, archived and backed up.   Since the passing of my friend Preston nobody has been encouraging me to back up of my photo's.  This past weekend a hard drive with 1TB of storage was added to my existing TB.  I ordered another 1.5 TB today.  All this space is to take the externally loaded pictures and back them up internally.  Then I will add a large external to back all up and take off site.  I would dread turning the corner and seeing 15k of photo's going up in smoke.  Or to turn on my computer and have a blank blue screen.  This is currently occurring at work. Many have lost all the information on their drives.  I have committed to keep an extra copy of all my photo's away from my home.  Then I will always be able to view the cherished shots of my family, my grandsons, travel photo's and my extended family (those incredible wild life).  Make sure your doing the same.....