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Recently on FreeMacBlog, I wrote about a friend of mine who had his house broken into. The theif took both his Macs, his backup drives and other electronics. (Thank goodness they didn’t find his new Canon D30.)

The post is called How To Prepare For A Stolen Mac. If you take the time to read the post, you’ll read that he lost all of his digital photos. He had about 30,000. He backed them up to his external drive, but that was stolen too.

My friend’s one photography saving grace was that he would often share his images with family and friends. He enjoys sharing his work (and we enjoy seeing them.) Because of this, he has been able to email friends and family, asking them to send back any pictures that he may have sent them in the past. Obviously he won’t be able to retreive all of his images this way, but he will be able to save some.

I hope you take the time to share your photos. If you take family shots, be sure to send them out to your family. Most of my best shots are on my Flickr.com account. It feels good know that if my machine was ever stolen or ruined, I’d always be able to pull down my best shots from my account. The inexpensive amount I spend yearly on Flickr is a very cheap way to back up your favorite images…and it lets others enjoy your work.

This morning on DPS Blog, they offered a nice reminder to mark your camera and your memory cards with your name.

One of the ways that was suggested was to take a picture of your business card or contact information. Once it is on your memory card, be sure to lock that image so it can not be erased by accident. That way, if someone finds your camera (or just the card full of images) the first one they’ll always see is how to get a hold of you.

I understand this won’t make a dishonest person honest, but it could give an honest person the ability to do something right. I’m going to do this today with all of my memory cards.

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