Post a picture of yourself

[K9Kirk]

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All my pictures are posted from the host's website and all
have a limited but equal appearance time… ok with me.

I see, you can save money that way but aren't you concerned with losing at least your very best pictures or do you have a means to store them ... permanently?

 

[NS: Nikon Shooter]

Your pictures in Nature & Wildlife don't disappear, are they from your computers h.d.? Why not put the picture there and upload it, it's free and doesn't disappear.

Oops… I just checked. My pictures in Nature and Wildlife — I started
in sometime August 2021 — are no longer on the threads since their
time limit has expired, as expected.

 

[NS: Nikon Shooter]

I see, you can save money that way but aren't you concerned with losing at least your very best pictures or do you have a means to store them ... permanently?

This decision has nothing to do with money… at all but with the know-
ledge that I have no talent with codes nor other abilities with web tech.

I never keep jpgs on my highly capable machine (only RAWs) because
they are easy and quick to publish when needed.

 

[K9Kirk]

This decision has nothing to do with money… at all but with the know-
ledge that I have no talent with codes and other abilities to web tech.

I never keep jpgs on my highly capable machine (only RAWs) because
they are easy and quick to publish when needed.

I see, kind of like how I do. I have a 2 TB h.d. and I only keep the raw and the processed copy of each pic I decide to keep. If I run out of h.d. (and it will take a long time before I do) I just buy another. I could pay for the use of "Cloud" but I would rather put my money into something that I control. So, is that picture lost forever or can you repost it somehow?

 

[jeffashman]

I see, kind of like how I do. I have a 2 TB h.d. and I only keep the raw and the processed copy of each pic I decide to keep. If I run out of h.d. (and it will take a long time before I do) I just buy another. I could pay for the use of "Cloud" but I would rather put my money into something that I control. So, is that picture lost forever or can you repost it somehow?

Flickr lets one store 1000 pics at no cost. I learned a valuable lesson recently, when my storage drive with all my pics just stopped. Fortunately, all of them were on MS OneDrive in the cloud. I would have been so devastated if I had permanently lost them.

 

[NS: Nikon Shooter]

I would have been so devastated if I had permanently lost them.

I share that.

I got myself 2x 16TB/RAID 5 QNAP TimeMachines to back up all
my SSDs and their contents.

 

[K9Kirk]

Flickr lets one store 1000 pics at no cost. I learned a valuable lesson recently, when my storage drive with all my pics just stopped. Fortunately, all of them were on MS OneDrive in the cloud. I would have been so devastated if I had permanently lost them.

I did that with cloud and it's nice but I quickly filled it up. I just didn't want to pay for their storage beyond that. I chose instead to put my money toward a 'back up' hd that will prevent any loss.

 

[K9Kirk]

I share that.

I got myself 2x 16TB/RAID 5 QNAP TimeMachines to back up all
my SSDs and their contents.

That's a lot of hd space, I'm assuming you do save at least your best pictures on it and maybe chuck the so-so shots. That's what I do to save space.

 

[NS: Nikon Shooter]

I'm assuming…

Assuming is not always right.
This exchange leads nowhere, I'm out.

 

[K9Kirk]

Assuming is not always right.
This exchange leads nowhere, I'm out.

So you do have a huge hd that you keep pics on after all. What I thought. If you didn't want to post the pic all you had to say was you didn't want to but you lead us to this instead. I tried talking to you but you aren't straight with me. I'm out, no more exchanges with you.

 

[idle]

does it have to be recent? all my best selfies were in the past.
Here are some I've liked (pardon the number, please scroll past if you wish):

DIC after a hard night out.
The Morning After the Night Before by Michael J Breen, on Flickr

With my home made 16x20" camera (I used it to shoot Cibachromes)
Me and my home made camera by Michael J Breen, on Flickr

World Superbike Championships, Manfield 1992. BEARs race (I won)
Mike Breen on Pizza To You Ducati F1 at Manfield 1992 by Michael J Breen, on Flickr

In Namibia 2001. We lived there for an IBM contract
Playing with lions! by Michael J Breen, on Flickr

Cycling across the Tibetan Plateau in 1999
Well Met: Linxia by Michael J Breen, on Flickr

A work photo: I made B&W enlargements for some of the shops around Christchurch.
My little darkroom by Michael J Breen, on Flickr

2nd Tibetan Trek 2000
'Selphie' Cycling the Tibetan Plateau; 1998 by Michael J Breen, on Flickr

Travels in China: ZhuZaiGuo
The Blonde Yak! by Michael J Breen, on Flickr

Relaxing in Langmusi, China (I lived there and studied Mandarin)
Mike in Langmusi by Michael J Breen, on Flickr

Langmusi, China. I've always got on well with kids all over the world
Langmusi with the kids by Michael J Breen, on Flickr

A bit more recent with my grandson
No Poppa! Slow Down! by Michael J Breen, on Flickr

Cycling in Singapore (lived there in 1987). Carrying my Mamiya 645 1000s
Streets of Singapore by Michael J Breen, on Flickr

Another more recent shot (speaks for itself)
FREE BEER! (tomorrow) by Michael J Breen, on Flickr

In my Lyttelton studio and darkroom with my first 35mm camera (inherited from my Dad)
Me, Myself and I / Ko au, Ko au ano me au by Michael J Breen, on Flickr

I'm shy......honest!
Mike by Michael J Breen, on Flickr

On a bike ride this year
Selfie in Artwork by Michael J Breen, on Flickr

Finally, with my Mom when we lived in Malaya
My mother and I by Michael J Breen, on Flickr

I hope you laughed!

 

[NS: Nikon Shooter]

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Very enjoyable because… you're crazy and I love it!
Pleased to meet you here, Michael!

 

[jeffashman]

does it have to be recent? all my best selfies were in the past.
Here are some I've liked (pardon the number, please scroll past if you wish):

DIC after a hard night out.
The Morning After the Night Before by Michael J Breen, on Flickr

With my home made 16x20" camera (I used it to shoot Cibachromes)
Me and my home made camera by Michael J Breen, on Flickr

World Superbike Championships, Manfield 1992. BEARs race (I won)
Mike Breen on Pizza To You Ducati F1 at Manfield 1992 by Michael J Breen, on Flickr

In Namibia 2001. We lived there for an IBM contract
Playing with lions! by Michael J Breen, on Flickr

Cycling across the Tibetan Plateau in 1999
Well Met: Linxia by Michael J Breen, on Flickr

A work photo: I made B&W enlargements for some of the shops around Christchurch.
My little darkroom by Michael J Breen, on Flickr

2nd Tibetan Trek 2000
'Selphie' Cycling the Tibetan Plateau; 1998 by Michael J Breen, on Flickr

Travels in China: ZhuZaiGuo
The Blonde Yak! by Michael J Breen, on Flickr

Relaxing in Langmusi, China (I lived there and studied Mandarin)
Mike in Langmusi by Michael J Breen, on Flickr

Langmusi, China. I've always got on well with kids all over the world
Langmusi with the kids by Michael J Breen, on Flickr

A bit more recent with my grandson
No Poppa! Slow Down! by Michael J Breen, on Flickr

Cycling in Singapore (lived there in 1987). Carrying my Mamiya 645 1000s
Streets of Singapore by Michael J Breen, on Flickr

Another more recent shot (speaks for itself)
FREE BEER! (tomorrow) by Michael J Breen, on Flickr

In my Lyttelton studio and darkroom with my first 35mm camera (inherited from my Dad)
Me, Myself and I / Ko au, Ko au ano me au by Michael J Breen, on Flickr

I'm shy......honest!
Mike by Michael J Breen, on Flickr

On a bike ride this year
Selfie in Artwork by Michael J Breen, on Flickr

Finally, with my Mom when we lived in Malaya
My mother and I by Michael J Breen, on Flickr

I hope you laughed!

That's a wonderful set of selfies. You certainly have had an interesting life.

 

[jesssica_]

Some pictures my dad took with my camera at my brothers wedding on Saturday

 

[ntz]

I see, kind of like how I do. I have a 2 TB h.d. and I only keep the raw and the processed copy of each pic I decide to keep. If I run out of h.d. (and it will take a long time before I do) I just buy another. I could pay for the use of "Cloud" but I would rather put my money into something that I control. So, is that picture lost forever or can you repost it somehow?

Servus Kirk,

let me throw my 2 cents in ... I am IT guy (profession) and I've spent quite some time with developing how should I store my data ... Let's make a long story short - I use multi-tier principle of my storage (3 tiers - 3rd == the highest value, 1st tier == lowest value / working data) ..

tier 3 - I use a blue-ray disc (labeled by months of the year) for regular backup of my raw files, that's my tier 3 storage, BD disc are supposed to just survive for ages - basically I have all RAWs that I don't delete on BD disc (based on the date - so I have a for example disc 2021/2 which contains all RAWs from all my cameras taken in Feb 2021, etc) ++ I create sometimes (quarterly) a special BD where I put my postprocessing projects (files from photoshop, gimp, pp3 profiles and so exported JPGs)

tier 2 - are multiple offline harddrives and sd cards and usb sticks .. tier is #2 transition between online data (t#1) and tier #3 .. I don't create t#3 backups every month, rather quarterly or less often .. in tier #2 is basically backup of my all current and recent work on one pile .. it's often unsorted and there's mess in it

tier 1 - live data that are "online" .. data on my hardrives in computer and also my external harddisks that I carry outside or use daily

summary - I have biggest trust into the offline optical Blue-Ray drives for long term storage and I have almost no trust into anything online no matter where it is and what is the raid level of it .. I don't have a trust in long term perspective to anything, that's mechanical and needs electricity to operate (my tier #2)

setup like that forces you to sort your photos (and other files - I am using this principle for many years) .. when I am making my BD backups I usually have to sort my photos because the capacity of one blue ray disc is 25/50GB big == 750/1500 RAW files (my 24MP raw files from nikon are 25-30MB each) which not bad for a month but also not awesome sometimes and I usually want to have only one BD drive per month (with shots from 3 cameras) .. yearly backup is usually box with 1-? BD drives .. for example from 2020 I have 11x BD ~ monthly drives ++ one cumulative backup on just 2 BD / 50GB drives which contains the data from all 11 drives (there's usually a lot of free space on each month-basis drive) == 11 + 2 drives for 1 year on two boxes on two geolocations (two houses)

cheers, ~dan