RJT-Photography

After our trip to Tunisia in February, I have finally finished my book of the journey.  After seven hectic days,  in weather which ran from pleasantly warm to snowing,  we saw far more of life in Tunisia, than many who go to Hammamet to lie on the Beach.

See More of our Tunisian Adventure Book

It’s been a good while since I last got a Photograph of the Day at the Photography Cafe,  but I was delighted to get one today with an image titled “Happiness is a Lollipop”, from our visit to Tunisia last week.

We visited a Troglodyte house in Matmata, where a woman lives with her 5 children. The house has some electricity via a solar panel, with a small TV in one of the rooms off the central courtyard and a piped water supply to the front of the building. The youngest of the children grabbed the bag of lollipops our guide brought and was working his way through them, even though I suspect he was supposed to be sharing them.

Jane’s POTD is like a quick trip to the location. In one image we have all the elements that describe living at that location. By having the subject so strongly off-centre we become more focussed on the empty walls and are given a sense of how little there is within the home.

I have been experimenting with DropBox and have been very impressed so far.

It’s easy to use and works well for me.  You can have 2Gb of space free and any file changes are automatically “synced” to other computers with the same sign on.

So what I did was

• Registered for  My Dropbox
• Installed the software on both my computers
• Moved some of my files into the Dropbox on my main machine
• Left it a while
• Checked and my Laptop had my files
• Now which ever machine I change my data on, it is copied to the other machine automatically and as a bonus,  dropbox makes automatic backups of any changes.
• If your files are over 2Gb in size you can have a paid for account if you want.

So far it’s doing exactly what it says on the tin.  Don’t try and use it on a dial up line though.   Along with the fact the files are kept in sync between you machines it also keeps backups of documents you are working on so, if you delete a few pages and save and then need them back you can recover them from the web interface on dropbox.

Add to that the ability to drop photos into a public folder and share as a slideshow, and the option to share specific folders with other dropbox users and you have a handy tool for little money.

Well winter has finally arrived, it was a chilly day down at West Bay,  but the Sea was as calm as a Mill Pond as we looked towards Burton Bradstock.