Missing Photographs

An abandoned building and Power lines near Virginia City, Nevada.
An abandoned building and Power lines near Virginia City, Nevada.

I’ve looked through some photographs that I’ve taken over the last couple of years looking for a series of photographs that I took with my iPhone or Canon camera while I was staying at Lake Tahoe. I took this series of photos back in the Fall of 2014, apparently, I didn’t back up my phone with these specific photos with my dogs while Lily Lake near Fallen Leaf Lake in the Sierra Nevada’s. They were on my phone that I wrecked in the fall of 2014 and couldn’t and wasn’t able to use the contents of the phone; let alone to erase the phone before I was able to send it in after I got the replacement phone. Another possibility is that I might have deleted these specific photo’s but I doubt that I did that.

This is a mountain peak located near Virginia City, Nevada.
This is a mountain peak located near Virginia City, Nevada.

The end of 2014 and into late 2015 seems that I had trouble with my iPhone – on the fact of needing to replace or place the screen. First I filed an insurance claim to replace it and my second line I had at that time. Both phone weren’t able to power on because of the way I dropped them on the floor or ground. Late last June (2015) I somehow pushed/kicked my replacement iPhone off of a table on to a concrete floor and smashed the screen. I was able to replace the screen last fall after I got back into Portland; however, to do that I do a remote erase of the phone because there was no way to get access to the phone to disable the “Find my Phone” feature that I had turned on at the time.

A Dead Tree in a Valley along a road from Virginia City, Nevada.
A Dead Tree in a Valley along a road from Virginia City, Nevada.

It’s just that I feel so stupid for not backing up my phone and photographs that I took with it. I don’t know when I would be going back to this one place to take more photographs with my iPhone or with my Canon camera that I have. I think I took these series of photo’s in October 2014 when there wasn’t or any snow on the ground in the Sierra Nevada’s.

I know that I shouldn’t let this type of shit to bug me, but it bug me in some fashion for a short bit to come. This summer I may take more photographs at Lily Lake in a few months time – possibly. It just frustrating that I do something like this. This might be one of my failings in my life. The only thing that I can do is to move on and learn from my mistake of not backing up my photographs off of my phone and keep track of photos that I take.

Latter folks….