Today has been a day of ups and downs. Yesterday my computer went into the shop because of the (possibility) of a hard drive failure. This possibility became a truth. One of my 500 gb drive failed -- catastrophically, no less -- and will no longer spin up. Good news is, I moved my music collection (some 350 gb) onto a backup drive. Bad news: I think that it may have taken my previous photos with it. Some six months worth or so. I find out tomorrow, most likely, after the backup drive is installed and fully functional. The new drive will do just that as well -- back up everything.
More bad news is that my D200 is screwed. Today (and tomorrow) have not been good days for myself and technology. So it's off for repair and will probably arrive back in around four to six weeks. Until is does get back, I'll have to use the D60 that I used to use. It's a serious downgrade from the 200, but I guess that it'll have to do. I see no other solution, short of buying another body of good quality to tide myself over, and I don't have the cash to do that. So it goes.
The good news is that I found a place that I'd be interested in going to school at. It's called the School of the Photographic Arts: Ontario. The stuff that they do really appeals to me, and I think that I could learn a lot from them. I'll start to put together something to call a portfolio from what I have left, as well as start throwing in actual film prints and the likes. I'll also get the old medium format camera that's been sitting in my basement cleaned up and start teaching myself how to use that -- first year is primarily black and whites using medium format cameras, something that appeals to me greatly. I also need to look into view cameras. I want to learn, in time, developing glass plates. Nowadays, view cameras use film, but I would love to learn the development process of glass plates. It's an old art, highly toxic, and very interesting.
Oh well, knuckle down, drive through it. Let's see what tomorrow brings
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