Today is Backup Day

There are two types of photographers: those who have lost some of their images, and those who will, eventually.

I'm in the former group, unfortunately.

Today is World Backup Day, the perfect time to make sure you are taking measures against possible failures that could lead to a loss of photographs.

At the very least, you want to have two copies of your data, in different physical locations. The more the better, but it usually comes at the cost of increased complexity. There are many different approaches to this problem; choose one that fits your workflow the best, and stick to it.

I personally have all of my photographs backed up in the cloud. I trust it enough, but not 100%. That's why I also have a local copy of all my photographs in a SSD drive that is kept up to date. And every once in a while, I'll make an extra copy of all the pictures I've rated 1 or more stars in a different hard drive.

No matter what you do, though, try to do something about it before something happens. We photographers spend a lot of time and money on this to have a hard drive failure ruining it all.

Importing photos with iOS 12 is so much better

I hadn't been using the lightning SD card reader for my iPhone much lately. Importing photos used to be a pain and a long process.

It looks like this is about to change, for the better. I've been running the iOS 12 beta for a few weeks now (mainly because it groups notifications like Android does), and I wanted to import a couple photos I had on my camera (I'm in the middle of a trip and I don't have my computer with me).

The new screen caught me by surprise. Not only is it much nicer, but the photos load much, much faster and selecting them by date is straightforward.

A very welcome improvement. I might use it more often in the field now, if only for an extra copy of my images (remember to back everything up before it's too late!).