Welcome to a year in the life of our greyhound/lurcher Styxx, compressed into twelve daily posts leading up to Christmas.
Gail and Styxx walk the shoreline of Lake Winnipeg near Winnipeg Beach, June 13, 2018.
About Walking
12 Days of Styxx, 2018 Edition: Day 4
Welcome to a year in the life of our greyhound/lurcher Styxx, compressed into twelve daily posts leading up to Christmas.
Taking a break on a very hot day in Assiniboine Park, June 10, 2018.
12 Days of Styxx, 2018 Edition: Day 3
Welcome to a year in the life of our greyhound/lurcher Styxx, compressed into twelve daily posts leading up to Christmas.
Cheering on the Winnipeg Jets, May 19, 2018.
12 Days of Styxx, 2018 Edition: Day 2
Welcome to a year in the life of our greyhound/lurcher Styxx, compressed into twelve daily posts leading up to Christmas.
Styxx takes a walk along the Assiniboine River after a fresh fall of snow on March 5, 2018.
12 Days of Styxx, 2018 Edition: Day 1
Welcome to a year in the life of our greyhound/lurcher Styxx, compressed into twelve daily posts leading up to Christmas.
We start with a late afternoon walk on February 23, 2018. Gail and Styxx take a photo break during a walk on frozen Omand’s Creek in Winnipeg.
Mobile Backup Choices: RavPower FileHub vs. Verbatim MediaShare Wireless
You may recall my quest for the perfect mobile backup strategy for photographs taken while on a long walk.
First there was the Kingston MobileLite Wireless G2, a nice, compact, lightweight means of transferring image files from my SD cards to flash drives. Unfortunately, the backups have proven to be unreliable with the MobileLite often stalling or freezing mid-transfer.
That led to the MediaShare Wireless by Verbatim (about CDN $32), also compact and lightweight and successful in backing up my camera cards to flash drives. My review was quite glowing. But I became frustrated with the software. First, it took far too long for Verbatim to upgrade the software to iOS 11. And once it did, I could not get the app to upload photos from my SD card to my iPad. That led to a two month long email debacle with Verbatim support that, in the end, provided no answer.
That frustration led me to the FileHub RP-WD03 by RavPower (about CDN $50). It’s very similar to the Verbatim unit. It has a slot for USB flash drives or hard drives and another for an SD card. It connects by wifi with an iPad, iPhone or Android device and a dedicated app. Verbatim has its MediaShare app and RavPower has the FileHub Plus app. (more…)
What’s In My Camera Bag, Part Two (The Other Stuff)
My last post dug into the camera bag slung over my shoulder. Cameras. Lenses. Filters. My creative tools.
As I mentioned in that post, my kit is tailored to the needs of long distance walking where weight and volume are as important as image quality.
But there is another collection of photographic ephemera, the less glamorous bag of technical bits and pieces required to keep my equipment working, to write blogs, to edit photos. It’s the stuff that gets tucked into my backpack, waiting for the day’s walk to be over and an evening of charging and editing and blogging to begin. (more…)
