Lesson learned… no, “I told you so” comments needed.
Earlier this month I was shooting a wedding for one of my favorite couples at a venue right around the corner from my home. I did as I always do… I brought my laptop to back up the wedding images during some of my down time. You have to know how obsessive I am about it… I back up the images 5 times and triple check each one before I erase the memory cards. Again, obsessive, but I am scared to death of losing images.
After the wedding was over, I packed up my stuff and headed out the door, but not before taking a few more pictures.
Fast forward an hour or so… I unpack my stuff to charge batteries, have a Sam Adams, and start the transfer of images to my hard drive system from the MacBook Pro laptop…. except… it’s not there. GONE!… Gasping for air… GONE!
Slowly, it starts to set in what just happened. My first reaction was… “did I back everything up like I always do? ” Yes… thankfully. Well, so I thought. I had every ORIGINAL RAW FILE from NoDo Photography backed up, but there were three weddings completely culled, edited, exported, resized, ready to blog… GONE. I lost every personal picture I took within the last 6 months…. GONE. I lost the last 2 years of my lesson plans from teaching. I lost settings on my laptop… the kind that can be backed up. GONE!
I have begun to get myself out of the hole I created for myself, but not without a heavy price. Namely my sanity from a lack of sleep to get these weddings re-edited. I know what I need to do so this never happens again… but it was a terrible lesson to learn. Jacob… #FAIL
BTW… did I mention it happened on my birthday. My 30th birthday …
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