Upgraded & Dunes

Photography Now & Then #137

Wanting a portable computer for use on the road later this year, I decided to upgrade a laptop I had purchased a while back.  Somehow, I made a mistake when originally ordering it and ended up with a machine that was deficit in memory and storage.  On the upgrade, I quadrupled both.  My main computer use is photo editing.  The picture below is after the memory and solid-state drive were swapped out, but before the back cover was installed. The photo was edited using the upgraded laptop and everything seemed to work well.

Upgraded laptop with larger solid-state drive and quadrupled memory from 4 to 16 gig, photo post-processed on laptop after upgrade complete. May 18, 2018 (Pentax K-3 II)

Now: Upgraded laptop with larger solid-state drive and quadrupled memory from 4 to 16 gig, photo post-processed on laptop after upgrade complete.  May 18, 2018 (Pentax K-3 II)

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We’ve crossed and visited Colorado numerous times over the years.  On our 2015 trip, we ventured into an area quite unlike any we had ever seen.  We visited dunes in Idaho – the St. Anthony Dunes – in the 1970s and a few years ago visited White Sands National Monument in New Mexico, but the Colorado dunes are in a category all their own.

Colorado’s Great Sand Dunes National Park has huge dunes reminiscent of the iconic images of the Sahara – but it also has trails to forests, wetlands, and alpine lakes in the Sangre de Crisco mountains.

Dunes from Colorado 150 at Piñon Flats Campground, September 22, 2015, Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve, Colorado (Pentax K-3 II)

Then: Dunes from Colorado 150 at  Piñon Flats Campground, September 22, 2015, Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve, Colorado  (Pentax K-3 II)


 

Photography Now & Then Notes:

  • Series Photos
    • The Now photo is one that is almost always taken the day of the blog post.  In some instances, posts may be backdated if internet access is not available on the day of the photo or other reasons prevent posting Photography Now and Then.
    • The Then photo is usually a randomly selected older photograph from a batch of photos specifically “curated” for Photography Now and Then.
  • Each photo in this series is an “original work” – a copyright term – of Michael Goad.
  • Reference links were accessed on the date the blog post was published, unless otherwise stated.
  • The title convention for Photography Now & Then blog posts evolved early on from one word related to each photo separated by “&” to usually being the first word in the caption description for each photo.

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