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Still Setting Up New Computer

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I am still busy setting up my new, more powerful, mini computer...  personalizing the operating system, installing programs, upgrading hardware and setting up hard drives and automatic backups.  It is going well but this is a time consuming process.  I always forget how long all of this takes until I get a new computer.  Every time I think I might be finished, I remember something else that isn't installed and set up on this new computer. In the past, I've always had all my old photos from previous years stored on about ten 1tb external hard drives with no backups.  I've always known that I was taking a big chance by having no backups for these drives but that was something that was always easy to put off.  On the positive side, the only times I ever powered up any of these external hard drives was when I was searching for an old photo or two so these little external SSD drives have very, very few hours on them.  Still, I was taking a chance by not ba...

A Few Flower Photos

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I grabbed one of my oldest digital cameras yesterday to shoot a few flower photos.  This camera is from 2005 but it has a very unique and irreplaceable sensor that I like very much for certain things.  It does exceptionally well with flowers, landscapes and macro photography. For those interested, these were shot with my Olympus E-500 using my Olympus 70-300mm lens.  The sun was bright and this old camera has limited dynamic range from brightest whites to black shadows so this allowed me to easily get the busy daylight backgrounds to appear almost completely darkened.  The sensor in this camera produces lush colors and sharp images...