Photo Recovery
Have you ever deleted files by mistake? Lost years of family photos that were never printed? Well, it happened to my dear friend Jenee. Last week Jenee was happily organizing family photos to have them printed when by mistake she deleted the main picture directory, the files were too big for the recycle bin and when the pop-up window came up asking if she wanted to permanently delete the files, her finger hit the ‘yes’ button before the brain could process what was going on. When Jenee realized that she was deleting all photos since the birth of her baby she tried to cancel the deletion but of course the computer took time to respond and just like that tons of photos gone, gone from the recycle bin too!
Don’t start crying just yet, chances are your files are still all there. Basically the computer marks the space on your hard drive that your file occupies as free space, and will write new data over them if it needs to save new or updated files. What you do on your computer from this moment on will have great impact on how much of your photos you’ll be able to recover. The first thing is, to do as little computing as possible. Do not save any files or install any software on that hard drive. File Recovery is possible 
There are lots of programs out there that do file recovery, my favorite ones are: Undelete Plus and PC Inspector File Recovery They both advertise that it is a free download(but it is only free for reporting purposes), it will let you scan your HD and see the recoverable files but to actually recover the files you’ll have to pay to license the program (both run under $50).
Here is a step by step on how to recover your files using ‘UndeletePlus’
1. Please read all the steps before you start.
2. Close all your programs and DO NOT save any changes, if you must save changes plug in a USB drive and save your files to it. If you save changes to the hard drive (HD) that you just deleted files from you could be writing over some of the very same precious photos you are trying to restore and they will be really lost forever.
3. Check the original directory where your files were as well as the recycle bin.
4. If your files are nowhere to be found. Download Undelete Plus onto a USB drive (thumb drive) or an HD other than the one where the deletion took place.
5. You’ll also need space available on a separate hard drive to write the recovered files. Maybe an external hard drive?
6. Install UndeletePlus onto the USB drive and start it. On the left panel select the hard drive where your files were located and click on the blue top button ‘Start Scan’.
7. Once the scan is completed this is what your screen should look like:
8. If the initial scan did not bring the files you are looking for, you can try to do a “deep” scan, it will take a while for this type of scan but the results are great! here are the settings that I use:
9. Select the files you want to recover on the right hand side panel. If you ‘right mouse’ click on the right panel you will be able to select all of them at once.
10. Make sure you select the proper directory where the recovered files will be written to. DO NOT select the same hard drive where the files were deleted from.
The process of recovering files can take a long time depending on how many files you deleted, for Jenee’s computer the process took us 36 hours of continuous recovery but in the end it worked great and Jenee has lots of photos to organize.
Hope you never have to go through a file recovery process, but if you do, now you know how. These two programs should work on memory cards as well, so long the computer or camera must recognize the card
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I love photographing on the high key, the white background really emphasizes the subject. I just photographed Greg and Holly’s beautiful family, here are a couple of our new canvases designs and some of our favorite images.
Carly’s Maternity Shoot
Last week I photographed a super cute maternity photo shoot with Carly and her son Larson. We went outside for a couple of pictures and did the rest of them at Carly’s house. Larson is such a cute baby and has a great smile, I love his blue eyes. He is little but he already loves the camera!
Here are some of our favorites.
In this image you can see Carly reflected inside Larson’s eyes. Love it!
Congratulations Carly and Jeremy on the new addition!
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Once upon a time there was a beautiful sweet girl who lived in Texas… I feel like I am about to tell a fairy tale, with the exception that this is actually real life. Julie and Eric are some of the nicest people I know, so sweet and thoughtful. They met in the fall of 2009 in Austin, Texas over dinner with mutual friends, the conversation was so engaging and fun that before the night was over they had exchanged emails and a long distance friendship had started (Julie lived in Texas and Eric in Arizona). Their friendship grew stronger and they started dating. In June the following year Julie moved to Arizona. And then, one day on December 17, 2010 at 7:25pm (yes, we girls make note of everything) Eric proposed to Julie on the mountain side of Mummy mountain overlooking the city lights, very romantic…. He totally surprised her too. And that is where our story begins.
Julie and Eric got married at the JW Marriott Desert Ridge on a beautiful day surrounded by all of their closest friends and family. With most of the guests coming from out of town the festivities started a few days before with lots of fun activities and relaxing times by the pool.
The ceremony performed by Jerry Law was so beautiful, it was a reflection of Eric and Julie’s relationship and what they want their marriage to be, Julie was so much into the moment that in some of the pictures you can see the bliss in Julie’s eyes. It is so nice to be around them, the love they share for each other is so strong and beautiful you can literally see it when they are together. The day was perfect! exactly how Julie and Eric had envisioned it. The reception was so much fun, I loved watching their first dance , Way to go Eric and Julie! Here are some images from the day!
Congratulations Eric and Julie!
Baby Lola
One more super cute baby girl. Little Lola smiled all the time during our shoot, I have a feeling she is going to love the camera
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