The sun shines through a thick cloud of frozen fog in Grand Teton National Park.
I learned a valuable lesson tonight trying to import this series of photos into Adobe Lightroom. Roughly every week Lightroom will ask you if you want to make a backup of the catalog, which includes every bit of information about all your photos and any edits made to them. Being as it is just a computer program, it’s going to go haywire at some point. That’s exactly what happened to me last night. I was trying to import an older set of photos when I began keywording one of the images’ metadata during the import. Lightroom didn’t like this too much and as a result wound up corrupting my catalog. Normally this isn’t a big deal since you’re supposed to be making backups every week or so. However I tend to open Lightroom when I need it, which means I’m not really in the mood at the time to wait to back stuff up. My last backup, as a result, was on December 6, 2009. So I’ve officially lost over month’s worth of very productive work I was doing behind the scenes on my website. All the photos are uploaded and on the website, but I now have to go back and redo everything I did in the past month at some point.
So to make a long story short: If Adobe Lightroom asks you if you want to make a backup, do it! It will save you a lot of stress and frustration in the long run.
This image is from this morning where for the second day in a row I woke up to a foggy morning. Since it was too cold to snow on both days, this left everything caked in a beautiful white coating. Both days I drove out to Kelly, Wyoming in Grand Teton National Park where the frozen fog stuck around through most of the morning. I took this one along the Gros Ventre River while the sun was still low on the horizon.
