Old Photo Magazines

I had a pile of old photo magazines that I didn't want to get rid of. They contained "how-to" articles and other information that I just didn't want to part with. The problem was that the pile of magazines kept growing. When you live full time in an RV that is a real problem since space is so limited. I used to keep one of those tiny little three ring notebooks around for my photography notes. I would paraphrase my favorite articles and authors in the little notebook and keep it in my camera bag. That way if I needed to look up a subject for a scene that Iwas working on I had it with me. Pretty soon I needed two notebooks! You can see where this is going right? A problem with the little notebooks was that I couldn't keep the pictures associated with the articles, and their were so many that I wanted to keep. (fooled ya huh!) Well, space and weight have now become a problem there too.

My latest solution was to tear the articles out of the magazines that I wished to keep, then punch them for a full size three ring binder. This was great since I could keep several years worth of articles handy in a single binder. Well I'm now on my second binder of articles and once again space is becoming an issue.

I'm not sure what my next solution to information hording will be. Most likely I'll be scanning and storing the articles on one of those little flash drives. I think I'll experiment with storing it on camera cards for my camera in a format that I can view like when I'm reviewing images.

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The picture in the Header was the result of a pile of luck and about 7 hours of patient waiting and watching over a two day period. The clouds finally parted at the very end of my final day at the Painted Hills of the John Day Fossil Beds National Monument. A single beam of sunlight made it through to light only the hills and lasted a total of one and a half minutes. This was one of the first landscapes I captured with my new Nikon D300 and I was very lucky to get the chance. There were no other photographers there at the time as they had all left about an hour earlier. I had been watching the clouds and it looked like the one tiny opening in them just might align itself jusf as the sun hit the horizon. It did!