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<p>It was such a slow week I took the time to clean the Kia. At this time of year the roads are so mucky that within a matter of days it was covered in dirt again.</p>
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<p>For the time being it can remain dirty.</p>
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<p>This month's photography challenges are dappled light and something beginning with "T". I've been taking walks in the local woods and trying to capture dappled light at a time of year when there aren't any leaves on the trees to give the dappled effect.</p>
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<p>At a recent Photography Group meeting we agreed to put our name on every image so that website visitors will know who the photos belong to. I discovered in Photoshop Elements a way to set up a custom brush that simply adds my name and copyright symbol.</p>
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<p>A couple of weeks ago my backup system crashed as a consequence of the drive corrupting. It had been running constantly for about 7 years. Thankfully I didn't lose any data because it was backing up everything I have on my main PC.</p>
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<p>Since this failure I've bought two 4 Terabyte disks in a RAID configuration which means if one drive fails the other has a mirror of the data on it.</p>
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