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A Beginner’s Guide to Food Photography

Food photography is a pretty insidious hobby. It starts off innocently enough – you’ve just made a beautiful fruit salad with ingredients you received from friends, and you want to send them a photo of the finished product. Or you’ve just purchased a bounty of fresh vegetables at the farmer’s market and you want a photograph to remind you what gorgeous vegetables look like when everything in the winter produce aisle is dull and limp. Or maybe you are thinking about starting to take pictures of food. Where do you start? Continue reading

Clouds Are Not to Be Trusted

Did you know that your precious pictures, videos and email live in a cloud and could disappear at any time?  This week Google accidentally lost data for 40,000 to 150,000 users (reports vary) and is trying to restore the data.  Flickr is well known for deleting photos and Facebook might remove your art photos because some old cat lady is a prude who is just thinking of the poor children.  Usually photos are on your computer since you had to retrieve them from your camera, but email often exists only on your provider’s servers.  Cnet has put together a video showing how to backup your data from Gmail and some other tips for backing up your other data.