Sometime last year, I found myself at a loss for ideas on what to shoot, I seemed to be stuck in an endless rut of shooting the same stuff over and over again, and that induced a sort of laziness. It was just getting boring.

So I started a photography club. Pretty amateurish (the idea wasn't to go berserk over-organizing), in fact it was just an excuse to meet new people and have a little fun (my social life was pretty dismal as well. LOL).

The great thing about not having too much of a structure around the whole thing was that it didn't get intimidating for anyone. Complete novices with point and shoot type cameras came along and experts who had photo books published joined up. Anyone could suggest any theme and we would all trundle along with our cameras and shoot stuff we had never ...

For the last two months, I had been driving around the country snapping pictures of localities to be published in local calendars. Had done quite a bit, and was rather pleased because I had even managed to capture some shots of very particular events in each location that only happen there once a year.

Unfortunately, I was moving house at the same time. And I do have to admit here, that I had been procrastinating a bit on the packing. (Wait for it, there is a link here... do you see it coming?)

I have two portable external USB hard drives. Generally, after a photo shoot, I'll transfer all my images from the memory cards to one of the hard disk and during the evening take a backup to the other one. About once every two months I will also copy to CDs.

In any ...