Crabs and SD Cards.

Thanks so much for your comments on my photographs from my previous post. It certainly means a lot to me as I love to show you my images.

I received a lot of emails asking me about the blue soldier crabs that we came across on Moreton Island. So this part of the post is dedicated to those crab lovers out there, young and old. These creatures are amazing!

There is always one in the crowd isn't there? Puffing himself up and daring to fight you.

These crabs emerged enmasse on the falling tide. When they feel threatened or disturbed  they burrow into the sand in a corkscrew motion. Yes, it was fascinating to me and I spent a lot of time trying to capture images of these gorgeous little things. They are so quick!

There he goes...dive...dive...dive!

All tucked away!

Here they are in an army - one of the many that were marching around the place. Evidently, this crab is the only species that walks in a straight line

After taking a substantial amount of photos, I tried to download them from the camera to the computer when the SD card read 'card not accessible.' Well! You can imagine the fumes and frustration I felt.

I was unable to access the photos at all. Apparently, this can happen with no explanation. I never take my SD card out of my camera choosing to save the photos on my external hard drive so there was no damage to the card itself. I then delete all images on the SD card. Then I start the process all over again.

You can see the compromise in quality of these crab photos can't you?  - these are the retrieved ones.

However, I will confess to you what I did the other day when I posted about my photos that I had lost. It is not very often that I edit my photos, apart from cropping them for which I use Google Picasa. I was having a big clean-up and organising images in folders etc. and of course deleting the ones I did not want to keep. I was doing this through Picasa not realising when I deleted an image it deletes it from all other photo files I have.

Being fair to Picasa, it was my own fault really as it always asked me if I wanted to permanently delete this photo, of course I said yes, not realising it  can delete it forever from any other photo software! Only a mere few were sent to the recycling bin that were retrievable.

After finding suitable software on the net I was able to retrieve the photos. The colours and clarity aren't the same, but I have them nevertheless.

Always something new to learn, and I wanted to share my trials with an SD card and my ridiculous errors I made trying to organise photos files! Oh and sharing those blue creatures of the sea with you.