Twilight at Bodecker

Thanks for looking. Comments welcomed.

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Thank you both. I agree with you M. I like it better with the sandbar than I would without it. In any event it was part of the landscape and I can't find a compelling reason to clone it out.

 

Normally that sandbar would be submerged out of sight. But water level in that lake is down dramatically lately. I am glad it is because once it dropped, a half a dozen great blue herons took up residence.

Love the shape that heron makes, too! Not the usual silhouette!

I like that part of it too. But I am kind of bothered by the rest of it. There are moments when I think I need to go back to the drawing board with the colors. Viewing location is part of that. It looks awful on computer at work. Its better on my home monitors. Bottom line sometimes I like it and sometimes I am not quite happy with it.

That is the main thing isn't it. :)

 

Actually I haven't printed it. I have a HP photo printer hooked up to my computer that is pretty decent. The thing is my computer crashed and I need to reformat the hard drive and bring everything up from scratch. I have been using my wifes system for the last few weeks. And frankly the printer connected to her machine is awful.

 

Why haven't I fixed my machine you ask? Its not that I don't know how. I do. Its just that I would rather be out taking pictures instead of spending several hours installing an operating system, getting updates, and configuring and installing software. Besides her machine is mucho mas nicer than mine. :))

$90 for a 250 gigabyte drive. Thats cheap. I knew prices had come down, but I didn't realize how much. I just might pick up a pair of those. Thanks for the heads up.

 

I am reminded of just how far we have come in the last 20 years. In the early 80s my first PC had two 20 Mbyte drives in it and had about a 6 MHz clock speed. That was hot stuff in those days. Now I routinely have PSD and Tiff files that are 100 Mbytes in size. We've come a long way baby.

 

But not every advance is an improvement. With MSDOS you could use Norton Utilities to unformat a drive. I couldn't even estimate how many times I made use of that feature. Unfortunately with the various flavors of windows in use today, that doesn't seem to be possible. Or at least I haven't been able to find a utility that has that functionality. If I could I suspect it would restore my drive. For reasons I can only guess at the drive appears to have had the boot sector erased. I hooked it to another computer as a slave and was able to access everything. One of these days my wife will decide she wants to reclaim her machine and I will be forced to take the time to restore mine. Either that or pull an old 233 MHz pentium out of storage.

 

By the way I have been meaning to ask you, are you in any way related to Floriana Barbu? She left some nice comments on my home page awhile back and I was just wondering could it be??

When you reformat a drive you do NOT erase the information that is on that drive. Until you use the drive and start writing to the various sectors all the information that was on it before the format is on it afterwards as well. The unformat program would simply restore a drive to the state it was in before you formated it or lost the boot sector. It was very very handy tool to have. It saved my bacon a couple of times over the years.

I think I misspoke earlier. Unformat is actually an MSDOS command in versions 5 and 6 and is not part of Norton Utilities. Goes to show you how rusty you can get if you haven't used an OS in ten years or so.

 

The MSDOS version of Norton utilities with undelete was great for recovering erased files but I don't remember it having the capability to undo a format of a drive. The windows version of Norton undelete isn't worth much though IMHO. Been my experience it doesn't work very well.