Whilst digging through files for adding my travel nostalgia during this time of zero travel, I realised I’m missing a bunch of my Russia photos. I’ve found folders from Siberia, and from Kamchatka, but not from the Trans-Siberian train journey itself (which was probably the highlight of the trip). I remember having these photos on flickr…but when I went to the album I thought had them in – zero photos! 😦
So I dug out an old computer, rummaged around there – and while I came across loads of other interesting stuff, no photos of me and my travelling companions, nor me wearing borrowed military gear and definitely missing a lot of me standing next to Lenin statues.
I was really annoyed at flickr, and discovered that last year, post sale to SmugHug, they deleted >1000 photos for all free accounts. I thought I’d check my email to see if they’d ever told me about this. I discovered that I had, in fact, been checking the wrong flickr account! Hurrah! BUT, while the other flickr account still has 950 photos in, they clearly had deleted the older stuff…containing all the Russia ones. Hurroo. 😦
In searching around, I also found the blog I kept for the journey! Nice to see it still there, and worth a re-read (for me, not for anyone else). Shame I didn’t add more photos directly to the blog. 😦
So it is rather upsetting that while I still have originals of lots of photos that were uploaded to (and have since been purged by) flickr, the Trans-Siberian, and maybe some other experiences, have been lost forever, like tears in rain. All the more galling that I have infinite cloud storage from the likes of Google, Dropbox, Amazon and Box, it would have taken mere moments to duplicate them.
Ah well, still fond memories and good journals, and still a bunch of other photos too – look out for the Memories of Russia post soon. And I haven’t dug through my old USB sticks and memory cards yet, so you never know…
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