I’ve been back in the office for a week now after spending some time working on stories and generating stock images in eastern Canada and Maine. It’s a region that I can go back to again and again without ever tiring of photographing it. This time I went “old school” by leaving all of my images on the CF and SD cards until returning home. It was almost like shooting film again when you wouldn’t get your images back from the lab for days or even weeks after a shoot. Of course, I had the advantage this time of being able to check shots on the camera’s screen to make sure I was getting what I thought I was getting but, once the cards were swapped out for fresh ones, I didn’t see the images again until I was back in the office and had them imported into Lightroom.

I don’t want to continue to work this way. I much prefer backing up to multiple portable drives while on the road just in case something gets lost or corrupted. But this is the way we always worked with film, wasn’t it? You never had back-ups until you had dupes made at the lab much later. With all the worry about image back-up these days I marvel at how we would ship rolls and rolls of film to the lab, crossing our fingers that there would be no problems in development and wondering if the package would make it back home safely.

Anyway, I digress. This past week has been a little bit of a reminder of those wonderful days when the film would come back from the lab and I’d pour over everything with a loupe on the lightbox, finally seeing what I’d managed to capture. Not having downloaded any of these images onto the laptop while traveling, I didn’t know what I really had until the first pass reviewing them in Lightroom this week. And the images didn’t disappoint. I’ll share more as I continue to fit the post-processing in around other work but, for now, just this one from the Lower Town of Old Quebec City with the Fairmont Le Chateau Frontenac standing tall in the background.

More to come…