Drain Clouds III
I was rummaging in my archives and found this shot of the Ross Bay storm drain which I had not fully appreciated when I passed over it the first time a few weeks ago. I like the way there are several lines in the drain and the clouds that lead to that white speck (boat?) on the horizon.
The reason I have to rummage in the archives is because I have put hours into shooting timelapse sequences, with little to show for it in terms of the blog. One timelapse (of those that worked) = one blog post, whereas the same time spent taking pictures around the place would likely set me up for a week.
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Canon EOS 5Dii, Nikkor-N 24/2.8 lens, f2.8, ISO800, 1/25th
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burnt embers 
I love that feeling …
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Thank you Mathias!
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As you know, I am very fond of this drain so I don’t mind at all that you’ve rummaged around and turned up this shot!
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Hi Melinda. Its always a bit of surprise to find something that was passed over for no apparent good reason. I think it is probably good to not be too trigger happy on the delete button – perhaps its best to leave the culling for a few weeks, or months.
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Several of the shots I’ve posted lately are older ones that – for reasons I don’t understand – didn’t capture my attention until now. I almost never delete photos, unless they are REALLY bad.
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I am faced with full hard drives, full back up drives and a consequently constipated and slow computer. Something has to go…. I am unclear what to do with my timelapse images. Do I make the video and then toast the hundreds of full sized RAW files? Or do I save them to experiment with when I start trying some panning and zooming within the frame? Do they have some other value? I am contemplating this at the moment. Maybe generate lower res versions and get rid of the big ones.
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You ask some good questions. And it’s too bad I don’t have any (good) answers! I’ve got stuff stored on my laptop and on an external hard drive. And some old stuff is on a high-capacity flash drive AND burned on DVDs. There’s always cloud storage, but that gets expensive if you’ve got a lot of photographs.
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I have seen too many CDs and DVDs fail to trust them. Archivists say they are only good for 5 years at best, but at work we often find failed disks submitted to us within the previous year or so. So, that seems like a pretty risky option, though as a backup of the backup maybe better than nothing. The cloud is tempting as it would survive my house burning down, or a tsunami, or even ‘the big one’ we are overdue for around here.
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You don’t have to apologize for “rummaging” when you come up with images like this. It’s pretty dramatic, thanks to that sky and the B&W process.
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Thanks Ken. It was nearly dark when I took this photo, and the shot was very blue, but not in a way that I liked much, which was probably why I overlooked it the first time around.
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