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farewall, lost photos

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-seven years and one million words

On our recent trip to Canada, I tracked down a lot of old backups because I'd discovered at some point in 2021 that I'd deleted the original images from a visit to a bamboo forest in Kyoto. I brought with me a long-running set of DVD's spanning that whole period, plus two old hard drives that I'd set aside after about eight years of use. Well, the hard drives are blank and the backup DVD's have exactly the same set of images as I still have today. So, at some point between October 2006 (when I took the photos) and 2008 (when I made the backups) I seem to have deleted the files. My last hope is a separate set of backup DVD's that seem to have been packed separately and are probably still in the bag that we left at the airport (having inadvertently picked up an identical bag that was riding the carousel with our other one).