Thanks everyone for selecting my picture this week.

Lots of good entries that made the list again and many more that didn't make it.  I feel honored.

Thanks for selecting my picture this week.

Congrats to all the other nominees.

Congratulations!

Thank you once again for my picture being selected for gallery of the week 45.

Congratulations to evryone being feautured in the gallery of the week 45.

thanks for this nomination. it is a great honor once again.

Thank you all for the selection of my picture for this week's LWITG. There were a lot of great pictures posted this week and this is very flattering to be included amongst this select group.

Thank you so much for including me in this selection.

Congratulations to all other nominees.

Good observation Whaleman.

Copyright laws and "self image" protection laws differ from one location to the next.

I live in the province of Quebec in Canada where photographers have many constraints to deal with. Both Canadian and Provincial copyright laws provide very strict guidelines for the protection of the copyrights of photographic creative production. On top of that, Quebec introduced a couple years ago the concept of "self image rights" which basically gives rights to the subjects of a photography wheter the subject is a person, a pet, or a privately owned (and certain government owned) recognizable location or object.

For instance, you can freely take pictures of people on the street, but you are not allowed to publish these pictures without obtaining the concent of the subject unless the person subject is part of a group and the group is the subject of the picture.

The same applies to objects and locations. If for instance you want to take picture in a Montreal subway station, you are legally bound to obtain approval of the Montreal Transit Society first. Not many people do and I've never heard of anyone being sued over this, but that's something in their back pocket in case they need to fight over protecting their image.

So, whenever shooting abroad, it is important to inquire about specific copyright/self image protection laws. Do not assume that because it works a certain way where you live that it is the same everywhere.

congratulations to all my fellow nominees for this week in the gallery.

Thank you for selecting another one of my pics for this honor.

Oh and no, I do not trust DVDs, CDs, etc. I have lost lots of CD/DVD even though they were kept in binders in a closet in a room where temperature and humidity was controlled far away from UV light from the sun. I've seen layers from DVDs delaminating from one another ripping apart the data layer. I'vee seen DVDs simply go blank without any reasons, etc.

In my opinion, Hard Drives remain the cheapest storage media and a proper HD rotation routine and backup scheme/schedule will ensure you keep your data safely.

I have a 500 GB partition on my hard drive where I store all my pictures using a folder structure (yes I'm running windows) H:yyyymmdd - description.  Under that last folder, I have a folder for my unedited original JPEG/CR2 files, a folder for my selected/edited files, and finally a folder for my Adobe Lightroom catalog.

Once the original files are copied to the hard drive, I then use Sync Toys 2 from Microsoft to backup my files to my network storage and run Sync Toys regularly to backup new & edited files.  Every 6 months or so, I create another backup on my USB drive.

As I have been late in beginning to use Lightroom and had tens of thousands of pictures, I never went back to create a master catalog with tags.  I'd rather spend my times working on new pictures than cataloging old stuff.  I'll do that when I retire in 25 years.

Congratulations!

Congratulations, this is well deserved.

thank you all for including my work in this selection.