It’s all a matter of perspective! Picture/photography thread

[desmobob]

not as note worthy as many in here, but pretty unique imo

P.S. high wind warning, according to the weather,  unless it blows my hat off its only a breeze,  75 mph is normal for where I live

Wow... strange clouds!  I've never seen them like that before.

I spent 26 years as a mailman; outside all day on foot.  I did a lot of sky watching as the weather was pretty important to me. 

I only remember ONE day in 26 years when the sky was filled with a strange cloud pattern I had never seen before.  It sort of scared me...   Wish I had a photo.

[Cope1041]

If my old phone didnt die a horrific death I would have a bunch of strange cloud photos,  some a little hard to believe.  but I will be on the look out for good ones

[bReTt]

A shot of the Space Needle and port cranes while out working one day last summer

[bReTt]

Cool light/sky shot

[wolverine]

not as note worthy as many in here, but pretty unique imo

P.S. high wind warning, according to the weather,  unless it blows my hat off its only a breeze,  75 mph is normal for where I live

Very cool

[bReTt]

Farm country

[wolverine]

Finally some pics with some perspective!

[bReTt]

If my old phone didnt die a horrific death I would have a bunch of strange cloud photos,  some a little hard to believe.  but I will be on the look out for good ones

I had a phone get destroyed coming down a mountain.  I had a lot of memories that I lost on that one. 

[avator]

Brett....
Chinook Pass on route 410 that runs between Enumclaw and Yakima is a great run for views. IIRC at one point you look over and it seems like you can reach out and touch the mountain (Rainier). Then going down the other side was one of the most incredible sights I had ever seen. It was above the tree line and a blanket of fog was laying in the valley. The very tops of the trees were poking up through the fog. I had to pull over and stop. I just stood there taking it in for quite some time. Awesome. IIRC there was a horse stable up there and lots of trails to ride.

[Xraycer]

If my old phone didnt die a horrific death I would have a bunch of strange cloud photos,  some a little hard to believe.  but I will be on the look out for good ones

I had a phone get destroyed coming down a mountain.  I had a lot of memories that I lost on that one.

I had an SD card on a phone that became corrupted and lost a ton of great family pictures and memories. Still so bummed about it 7 years later. Now, I back up my photos, only use Samsung SD cards, and no longer encrypt any of these SD cards.

[avator]

I had a computer HD crash on me back in the day. I had so many pictures of family and important events including pictures of my mom who had passed away. That literally took me to tears. I lost them all. From that point on I burned all pics, documents and important files to a CD every Thursday. I don't know why I picked Thursday, maybe it was the day they did the weekly backup at work or something.
Now I pay $1.99 a month for 150GB of OneDrive cloud storage. All my devices are set to auto send all pics taken to the cloud. We have the laptop, the main pc, my cell phone and 2 tablets that all have access and share the cloud. I have the cloud set to private.

[Xraycer]

I had a computer HD crash on me back in the day. I had so many pictures of family and important events including pictures of my mom who had passed away. That literally took me to tears. I lost them all. From that point on I burned all pics, documents and important files to a CD every Thursday. I don't know why I picked Thursday, maybe it was the day they did the weekly backup at work or something.

I feel your pain, Bill. A part of my kids' age period that I lost forever, and mostly myself to blame for not backing it up. Hard lesson learned!
And here's another saga to this story. So, of course, I went online to see if I could fix this. There was a website that claims they provide service to retrieve crashed HD, SD cards and such. Claiming SD cards were typically a $200-$300 service. So, I sent in my card. Then got an email for an estimate of nearly $1000! I declined the service and requested the return of my card. They wanted $40 to ship back a micro SD card! Now, I'm smelling scam. I, begrudgingly, took my loss and just let them keep the corrupted card, because I sensed they weren't going to send it back anyways.
Also, I suspected something fishy from talking to the person on the phone. He didn't come across with that professionalism of a business entity.

[avator]

I had a computer HD crash on me back in the day. I had so many pictures of family and important events including pictures of my mom who had passed away. That literally took me to tears. I lost them all. From that point on I burned all pics, documents and important files to a CD every Thursday. I don't know why I picked Thursday, maybe it was the day they did the weekly backup at work or something.

I feel your pain, Bill. A part of my kids' age period that I lost forever, and mostly myself to blame for not backing it up. Hard lesson learned!
And here's another saga to this story. So, of course, I went online to see if I could fix this. There was a website that claims they provide service to retrieve crashed HD, SD cards and such. Claiming SD cards were typically a $200-$300 service. So, I sent in my card. Then got an email for an estimate of nearly $1000! I declined the service and requested the return of my card. They wanted $40 to ship back a micro SD card! Now, I'm smelling scam. I, begrudgingly, took my loss and just let them keep the corrupted card, because I sensed they weren't going to send it back anyways.
Also, I suspected something fishy from talking to the person on the phone. He didn't come across with that professionalism of a business entity.

Kinda scary.. you might be surprised to learn what some of these scammers can do with a simple photo.

[desmobob]

I don't own a mobile phone.  I keep my photos on my laptop and back them up on a solid state portable hard drive.  And I back that one up to another one I keep in the car.

You should aways have one back-up somewhere other than in your house!

[Xraycer]

I don't own a mobile phone.  I keep my photos on my laptop and back them up on a solid state portable hard drive.  And I back that one up to another one I keep in the car.

You should aways have one back-up somewhere other than in your house!

I have Amazon Prime, which includes unlimited photo uploads. That's where I now back my photos up to.
I used to use an external hard drive. Since, it was set to encryption,  I can only open it up using the laptop that I had originally used to upload the data. When I get another external HD, it will be set to no encryption. That way, I can reopen my data on any other computer.

[Insanity]

I use Flickr to back up my photos. Lost far too many my self too.

[wolverine]

I have all our photos/videos on an old computer running XP.  It hasn't been used with the internet in many years so I'm not worried about losing data, however I do back up all our computers to individual external hard drives. 


I don't trust any of the "cloud" systems.  Remember what happened with Photobucket?

[desmobob]

I don't trust any of the "cloud" systems.  Remember what happened with Photobucket?

Like they say, "The cloud is just someone else's computer.  I prefer to bear the responsibility and security of my back-ups, not hand them off to someone else.

[Rabbit\Squirrel Killer]

I don't trust any of the "cloud" systems.  Remember what happened with Photobucket?

Like they say, "The cloud is just someone else's computer.  I prefer to bear the responsibility and security of my back-ups, not hand them off to someone else.

+1

[bReTt]

Brett....
Chinook Pass on route 410 that runs between Enumclaw and Yakima is a great run for views. IIRC at one point you look over and it seems like you can reach out and touch the mountain (Rainier). Then going down the other side was one of the most incredible sights I had ever seen. It was above the tree line and a blanket of fog was laying in the valley. The very tops of the trees were poking up through the fog. I had to pull over and stop. I just stood there taking it in for quite some time. Awesome. IIRC there was a horse stable up there and lots of trails to ride.

Yes sir!  Very familiar with it.  It’s basically my backyard. 👍🏼