In a place where I so wanted to get away from, this time on my holiday here I have found a new character to the place that has perplexed me. A character that I’ve never really seen before. The idea that someone could love the look of rolling hills, fields that go on as far as the eye can see and gravel roads that criss-cross the landscape had always been a foreign concept.

Today I decided to drive some of those gravel roads, capture those rolling hills and understand the atmosphere. Here are some of the images that came from the trip:

With the recent acquisition of a couple 250GB portable HD’s I knew that the biggest issue would be how to back up all that onto the HD’s. A while ago I posted on the programs that I use to back-up all my data, one piece of software that was among them was Super-Duper. Since that post I have had major issues with this program and have deleted it off my system. A program that has replaced Super-Duper is a great program by the folks at ECon called ChronoSync.

What differs from Super-Duper to ChronoSync is the fundamental differences of what type of back-up it is. Super-Duper will makes a clone of your entire drive (including the errors!). While ChronoSync will back-up and sync just the files on the drive that you have selected. It has automatic back-ups and allows the user to even make sure specific files types aren’t backed-up. 

I have yet to have any errors or issues involving back-ups. It has run flawlessly for over 7 months now and you become accustomed to hearing that wonderful “DING” when the back-up is successfully finished. 

It costs $30 to buy and has a 30 day trial as well. I would highly suggest any photographer who uses a mac use this software for backing-up their photographs. It can even back-up your files to MobileMe on a consistent basis, a feature which I use daily on an auto back-up.