Christmas Formal

Funny, how I always seem to be "volun-told" that I'm going to be taking pics at home before all the little kiddies go out for their Christmas Formal at school.  Oh well, more chance to play with my new studio lights.  Heh heh.

Ed

Halloween

Halloween has come and gone, and all the ghouls and goblins are back in their dens until next year.  Nice that I still find it fun to carve a pumpkin with my daughter, who doesn't seem to have outgrown it yet either. :) 

Upcoming price increase ! :(

Hi everybody.

I'm afraid I have bad news.  The publisher I use for my Premium Albums just notified me that as of January 1, 2009, the price is going to increase.  I'm still going to stay with them, though, because they have an AWESOME product and their service is great too.  I don't know how much the increase will be, but they state it's going to pay for their recent purchase of new and better equipment.  We'll see, I guess.  Anyway, if you're interested in a Premium album, better order it soon to stay at the current price.

Ed

RAID !!!

Hi Everyone,

     Well, everyone being probably the 2 people that show me the kindness of reading this blog...anyway

    I just installed a RAID system to my computer set-up.  It's great.  I'm using the LaCie 2Big which is a great machine.  There was a little speed-bump in setting it up, because when you set it to one of its versions of RAID 1, you have to let it sit and rebuild itself which can take up to 12 hours.  I was panicking because I was getting warning lights and I didn't think it should take any longer than the formatting process, since the unit contained no data.  All was good, though, and a quick email to tech support fixed me right up!

     Until recently, I didn't know what a RAID was, so let me provide a bit of background. RAID is an acronym for Redundant Array of Independant Disks.  There are several versions of RAID, and mine is set to RAID 1 which means multiple copies of the data.  My LaCie drive contains 2 500Gb harddrives inside which are set up to maintain 2 mirror images of whatever data I send to the drive.  When (not "if" but "when") one of the hard disks fails, I just need to replace that disk and let the system rebuild itself with no loss of my data.  Cool, eh!  I realize this sounds a bit paranoid with regards to data backup and security, but when I'm charging people $####+ for photography of their special event and then putting tons of work into their processing, site building and other services, I really need to be sure that the time will not come where I have to contact the client and tell them I had a drive failure and their images are toasted.  Being sued would only be the beginning of the havoc something like that would create!  No-sir, not for me!  Sure, I could pull a failed drive from my machine and send it away for recovery, but that's MEGA expensive and there are no guarantees!  For a little over $400 tax included, I bought a large amount (500Gb) of peace of mind.

Plus, it looks cool!  Here's a pic I got from LaCie's website to show you.  I don't have a specific letter of permission to use the image, but I doubt LaCie will whine about the free advertisement. :)

A few more from one of my favourite couples!

Wedding Images

A few quick pics from Jenny and John's wedding.  You just can't take a bad picture of this couple.  They were awesome!

More to come,

Ed

Jenny's Big Day

Well, the Major Wedding has come and gone, and I'm still going through tons of images.  This was great couple and I'm having a hard time finding pics I don't like.  They were tons of fun!

It was also quite a distance from home, so I brought my wife with me for the weekend and I've got to say; I've seldom been treated so well.  Jenny & John, their families and friends made us feel right at home and it was a pleasure to be with them.

I feel really honoured to be part of their event and I really want them to know how much I appreciate it!  Jenny & John, THANK YOU!

Well, gotta go.  I hope to have some pics up here this week, so check back often.

Ed