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How I store my (digital) photos

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After sharing his multi-step process for storing his photos, a photographer who blogs asked the question of his readers: How do you store your photos? For some photographers, this is a very elaborate process. Not for me.

After a few false starts, I have distilled my photo storage into a three-step process — one that doesn’t tax the mind too much and makes my photos available whenever, wherever.

Here are the steps:

  1. I use 16GB cards. I treat each card as three rolls of film. It allows me to just keep them and never erase them. These days good quality 16GB cards are relatively cheap compared to those with higher volumes. I usually pay about $8 for one. And given that I am primarily a landscape photographer, I don’t have to shoot multiple frames a second, so their speed is sufficient for a sunset. So, that is

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(My) NAS Is Dead

It is not fun to wake up and learn that a firmware update killed your network attached storage.

Looks like that is what happened to my QNAP. It is in an infinite loop of trying to boot. Of course, that finally has made me ask the question that I should have asked earlier:  Do I really need a NAS? Their interfaces are so archaic and old school. And as devices, they are so nerdy, complicated and unwieldy. I have never been able to come to grips with them.

As an amateur photographer, I wonder if I should get a simpler storage system? My primary storage is photos — I copy them on portable SSD drives. I don’t re-use my SD cards. I used to load them on QNAP and then sync to B2. I upload selected photos for editing and finished photos to Adobe Cloud. And if that was not

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