LIMA STREET DIARIES: THE GAME, THE STRUGGLE AND RESILIENCE / EL TORNEO, LA LUCHA Y LA RESILIENCIA [ENG-ESP]

LIMA STREET DIARIES: THE GAME, THE STRUGGLE AND RESILIENCE / EL TORNEO, LA LUCHA Y LA RESILIENCIA [ENG-ESP]

Documentary Photography / Fotografía Documental

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“Photography is invaluable; every frame is a captured story, a heartbeat.”
“La fotografía es invaluable; cada encuadre es una historia capturada, un latido.”

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English

Hello friends of the B&W community. I’ve been absent for a while, and I want to share a difficult situation I've been going through. Recently, my university invited me to document a ping-pong tournament. I would have liked to edit more photos, but my current situation has been tough. I had a major problem with my external hard drive. I was transferring files to free up space on my Mac, but the new drive failed. It trapped my photos, and I lost 70-80% of my work from years in a single moment.

I feel frustrated and heartbroken. For us photographers, a photo is not just an image; it’s invaluable, a story, a feeling. We fall in love with what we observe and enjoy. But it’s done; there is no turning back. I’m still fighting to see if I can recover more. Luckily, I managed to recover the tournament photos. I needed to vent this, to share the struggle. Thanks for reading, and as they say, if you fall, you rise stronger. New adventures will come.

Español

Hola amigos de la comunidad en blanco y negro. He estado desaparecido porque he pasado por un problema fatal. Recientemente me invitaron en la universidad a participar en un campeonato relámpago de ping-pong. Hubiera querido editar más fotos, pero me ha costado mucho poder presentar este trabajo debido a un problema con mi memoria externa. Hice un traspaso para hacer un respaldo desde mi Mac, pero la memoria nueva falló. Se quedó con las fotos adentro y perdí entre el 70% y 80% de todo mi trabajo de años en un solo momento.

Hoy me siento muy frustrado. Los que somos fotógrafos sabemos que la fotografía es una pasión; no es sólo una foto, es algo invaluable, tiene una historia, un sentido, un sentir. Nos enamoramos de lo que observamos. Ya no hay marcha atrás, pero seguiré luchando para ver si puedo recuperar algo más. Por suerte, pude recuperar las fotos del torneo de ping-pong. Necesitaba desahogarme un poco. Las cosas pasan por algo, y si te caes, te levantas más fuerte. Vendrán nuevas aventuras.

¡Kachkaniraqmi!(Quechua: Until we meet again)

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Detalles Técnicos / Technical Details

FeatureSpecification
Photographer@cabzphoto
CameraSony Alpha 7 III
LensSigma 24-70mm f/2.8 DG DN Art
EditingLightroom Classic (Manual Exp + SLS Preset)

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This is my entry for the #MonoMad Challenge, hosted by @monochromes and @brumest



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I know that feeling when you lose photos due to a disk failure. I hope you can recover more photos! Have a nice day!

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Thank you so much for the kind words and your support. It’s definitely a stressful situation, but I'm staying positive and hoping for the best. Have a great day as well!

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That’s really bad and I’ve experienced this in the past with a server that I was running a photography community on. We lost the website and a lot of the files. I had to restore the whole system from lots of little bits. This was back in 2004 when web tech was quite different and you’d rent a single machine for data and image files. One hard drive and it died. I changed hosting provider and restored from multiple backups.

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Thank you for sharing that story. It’s comforting to know I’m not the only one who has gone through such a stressful experience. It really puts things into perspective. I'm working hard to recover as much as I can!

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