Fall Colors 2010 Rediscovered

A friend of mine seemed very interested in the fall colors trip I just took and she was sick so I thought I would try and lift her spirits by sending her the link to my Fall Colors 2010 Gallery on SmugMug. But... it turns out, I didn't have said gallery.

"Ok", I thought, "I'll just create one since I have ready access to all the images."

Turns out, I didn't. I had the raw files but not the final images. Lets back up a bit.

In the fall of 2010, I took a trip leaving Leander up to Wisconsin, visited some cousins, and then went on north to the upper peninsula of Michigan. I finally circled back around on the southern side of the peninsula and headed back home. The whole trip took from September 12th to October 15th. I spent the day time working remotely and would get up and do photography in the mornings and evenings often during golden hour or blue hour.

I had two Canon cameras: the 1D Mk II and 1Ds Mk II. And I had a 6cm by 8cm medium format Fuji GX 680 with tons of lenses. The problem is that the camera was starting to get old and its film canister had a light leak so I didn't get many of the images but I did get quite a few.

I even self published a book about the trip that you can see here.

Coming back to recent times, when I went to find all of the images, the medium format images in particular I had only the raw images and not the final processed images I used in the book. Also, the book was published via Lightroom's "Book" module and so my Lightroom catalog should have had all the info about the book but it had none. I assume I started a fresh catalog and never brought in the old catalog from this trip.

To bore you even more, I'll explain that as I've gone through laptops and computers over at least the past 20 years if not longer, I never threw out the old hard drives. I kept them all. A few years ago, I bought a huge storage system (called a NAS) and put all the drives on it, created a program to index everything and find duplicates. Lightroom has a special type of file that it keeps its data in so I could search the NAS for that particular type of file, look at the modification dates, and quickly narrow down the most likely catalog that I had used during the trip and creating the book.

Long story short, I found the catalog and all the edited images used in the book. I added them to my current Master Catalog and published the gallery up to SmugMug. You can see all the images here.