The Last Word

I got an email from a Drobo tech yesterday afternoon telling me to install the 1.3.1 release of the Drobo firmware. I told him I’d already figured that out but that I couldn’t do it until the Drobo console recognized Drobo1. He called and said to try power cycling it without the USB cable attached, [...]

I poked around on the Drobo support site until I found a firmware update that’s supposed to fix the Error 51 problems.  Unfortunately, the instructions only apply to updating a Drobo that the Drobo management software recognizes.
I hadn’t heard from Drobo support this morning so I decided to try some things myself. I shut down [...]

I went to check on the server backups today and noticed that they had been failing for the last two days. Vice-Versa reported “target folder not found”.  It only seemed to affect one of the Drobos, Drobo1; unfortunately, that was the one with the most-rapidly-changing data. The Drobo management software reported that all was well. [...]

I went to Monument Valley last weekend. It was just a quick trip, and with non-photographer friends along, I mostly just played tourist. I did take one camera, one lens, and no tripod. The camera was a 4000 by 6000 pixel 35 mm format digital. I amused myself by snapping off 6 to 12 picture [...]

As I mentioned in the preceding post, I’ve been working a lot more on CPA business. How’d I get so involved? It’s a long story, and one that I’ll probably get into later; I’ve been on the Board since February, and President since March.
In March, we made a long list of things that needed work. [...]

The most important thing I learned at PhotoLucida was how much time and energy it takes to sell your work. It can be a lot. In fact, for some, it seems to be more time than they spend making photographs.
That isn’t a happy realization for me. I love to make images. I like to have [...]