KIDS "I Love Them"

During the course of any given week my assignments involve children. They can be in school, playing sports, or in the park. It seemed to be just another typical assignment in a classroom, but as I discoved and keep discovering, there are no typical assignments. Childern are always inspiring.
Late March, I received 19 letters from Mrs. Svab and Ms. Junge's class at RD White Elementary School in Glendale. Being a mother myself you might imagine how excited I was to open the package and see the thoughtful effort and sweetness that went into each and every letter.
I posted these examples because they were colorful, but all of them were worth posting. This was an amazing gift, one of the best I've ever received. THANK YOU CLASS!

PhotoShelter

This is a link to an important article about backing up data. I use PhotoShelter and it's a great service. All photographers should know about storage options and backing up their data. If you're a photographer, work must be backed up at least twice on hard drives. Yes it's costly, but necessary.
Studies have been done on the life span of CD's and they do deteriorate, the effect looks like color bands running through the image. The end result is no matter how good the CD, (gold) they don't last forever, and they can become scratched, rendered unreadable.
I started using hard drives long ago to back up my work instead. One primary back up and a secondary back up.
Digital imaging is a great medium, but nothing keeps like good old fashion film, which many of us no longer use, especially photojournalist who have a deadline everyday.
A few years ago I interned at the Los Angeles County Museum of at in their Photography Department. While there I asked a curator what would be the best format the safest way to store something. Their answer was simple, and from a simpler time.... graphite on paper, it lasts hundreds of years if stored properly. The answer always haunted me, oh the "good old days!"