I am 58 years young, live in Johannesburg, South Africa and I'm a true product of my continent. I love the bush, the animals, sunshine, sunsets - oh well, anything to do with nature. I am unmarried and have three sons - 37, 33 and 30 respectively and three granddaugters aged 12, 6 and 4 respectively and obviously the light of my life! Photography has always been a passion and I have loved it since I can remember. I was still using a SLR camera and only switched to digital only in late 2007! My other passion is travel and I have been lucky enough to have travelled fairly widely. There are however still many, many places I would love to visit "one day." I am truly an amateur photographer and do it merely as a hobby. So please be gentle when you comment on my work. :-) Thank you Piet, my dear friend, for convincing me to place my work on Renderosity. You owe me one! Hugs, Carin xx
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Comments (61)
DAVER2112
I'm so sorry to hear about your loss :( I'd go crazy!! Very nice image though! :)
Faemike55
Sorry to hear about the loss. That is a gut-wrenching sick feeling. Thanks for the warm picture!
flora-crassella
wonderful flowers! Great photo!!!
zoren
too bad for loss of work!! my wife just got me a back up system for this same reason..... I like this capture..
mickuk50
Never rely just on a hard drive as they can go anytime .A real beauty and cheery shot Carin Mick
Kaartijer
Awesome flower, Carin! Good composition, love the frame!
PD154
Beautiful capture Carin, I am sorry you lost all your work, it is a real bummer, it happened to me when my HD failed last year, I lost some great images, now I back everything up with a paranoid attitude LOL!
Susank
I'm also very sorry to hear about your loss! Look at these to dancing queens. Lovely, and i love the complementing frame.
kgb224
Sorry to hear of such a loss Carin.Excellent capture Carin.
Hendesse
Beautiful flowers, the colors are wonderful. Excellent photo and presentation!
drag
This is really beautiful Carin. Sorry to hear about loseing all those photos, it's one of my biggest fears. I have a lot of new ones I need to back up.
SSoffia
GORGEOUS CAPTURE & COMPOSITION :)
Charberry
Oh I have lost plenty of things through the years! Sorry about your loss. This is what a CD burner to back-up is for, and also Photobucket.com is a great place to back up favorites. That has saved me lots of times! This is an excellent macro, with a soft focus. I love fuschias so much, and wish I could grow them here.
rocserum
Great macro! If you did'nt write a lot of data, its possible to get your photographs back. the're programs who can restore deleted files, Ive used http://www.pcinspector.de/default.htm?Language=46 to get some files back a few years ago. Its Dutch, but worthed to try. RS
3x3
awesome capture
MrsLubner
My biggest fear these days is losing my photo file on my laptop. My deepest sympathies! But, then you brought a stunning floral shot to us and I am glad you had to dig to find it. :-)
Meowgli
so sorry to hear about all those lost hours =( I thought for a week after Christmas I'd lost my hard drive, which is pretty small and could go unnoticed and on which EVERYTHING photographic I've pretty much ever done is stored, not backed up... you can imagine the relief when it turned up eventually.. I guess backing things up is one of those real boring things we should all do but which I somehow never get round to... aaaanyway, nice shot, great colours and light! =)
dorothylee
Great capture of these beauties! Sorry to hear you lost some photos - I hope you had the unedited ones backed up on cd.
babuci
We put so much time into prepairing those pictures, I can not imagine how you fill, sorry for the loss. Back up, back up, back up!! This is a wonderful flower, love the strongness of the color.
timtripp
beautiful!
Chaosphoto
I love fuschia's but can't seem to grow them. Oh well. Sorry to hear about your "ready to place" folder. I'm not that organised myself as you might be able to tell. Get yourself a 2.5 inch portable hard drive and go to www.2brightsparks.com and get their free syncback software. Thats what I do and the 2.5 goes with me everywhere then gets plugged back in when home.
bmac62
Hi Carin...beautiful fuschia...looks absolutely fresh. I'm lucky to have 3 or 4 ahead, how did you manage 150? I know we all have our own ways but I went to Amazon the last time I got a scare, shelled out some dollars and got a 500GB external HD. I plug it into my laptop once a week, start it and walk away. It automatically adds only those changes I've made since the last backup. CDs are painful but inexpensive and for some reason I just don't like sending all my stuff off to some service who knows where. Mighty nice replacement today. Bill
BorisB
Gorgeous closeup with wonderful colors!!
Miska7
Nice colours! Great capture.
mininessie
oh! this is one of my favourite plants! great shot!!
mermaid
wonderful shot, Carin, and I expecially like the framing in this one...smile
THROBBE
Simply beautiful!
guitar-slinger
Oh Geeez Carin !! That is a heartbreaker !! so sorry to hear that, Why is it we put off saving to CDs ??, I'm really bad at that, and your photos are so beautiful, as is this one that you posted, Keep up the great work! [^__^] Hugs, Roger
amota99517
Your image is beautiful! Sorry to hear about your loss. I can totally relate to that one.
MrsRatbag
Lovely blooms, is there no hope for the return of your files? I hate when that happens.... I've started myself on a program of monthly backups after my last scare.