Wednesday 29 April 2009

my site :p

here's my website guys! www.sunnyphotography.co.uk

its slowly being updated with more and more pics - and pretty soon i'll have a cartfly shop set up too! so stay tuned!

Sunny
Sunny Photography - Wedding Portrait and Event photography based in Leeds West Yorkshire

Tuesday 21 April 2009

Vaisakhi Leeds 2009

The celebration of Vaisakhi, the birth of Sikhism, is held as a Nagar Kirtan (procession with religious hymns) traditionally from one Gurdwara (Sikh Temple) to every other Gurdwara along the way to a central point of the city - which in this case is Millenium Square, Leeds. The turn out for this event was in the thousands, with almost every Sikh family in Leeds turning up and joining in the walk.

This pic shows a group of young Sikhs singing religious hymns (Kirtan) just outside of Civic Hall.

Check out my flicker page (by clicking on the pic) to see more pics of Vaiskhi or take a look at my facebook group (by going to my website www.SunnyPhotography.co.uk - then clicking on the facebook link!)

Happy Vaisakhi people!

Sundeep Singh Osahn
Sunny Photography - the Sikh, Hindu, Muslim, Asian, Indian, Wedding Photographer based in Leeds, Yorkshire.

Wednesday 15 April 2009

this is just a test!

This is just a test for google. I'm seeing if by posting a couple of sentances whether it'll be recognised and help my business jump up the rankings on a google search. The phrase is below....

" Sunny Photography Asian or Indian wedding photographer based in Leeds Yorkshire Sikh Hindu Muslim Weddings. Visit our website at www.sunnyphotography.co.uk - probably the best up and coming wedding photographer in leeds "

lets see if it works!lol

Friday 10 April 2009

BACKUP...? Time Machine??...

Recently I stumbled on a website which mentioned something along the lines of 'always have 3 copies of everything' and it made me think.. do i?

Up until (very) recently I had my mac set up as follows (WARNING: the following might sound a bit geeky!).....

2x 1TB Samsumg Hard drives set up in RAID 1 which means they mirror everything (so that hard drive B has a copy of everything on hard drive A). This is good for redundancy purposes i.e. if something went wrong with 1 hard drive i've still got the other with everything on it that the failed one had.
I also had a 500GB external hard drive which kept a backup of my Aperture vault (over 300GB of photos!). Also, I had a 500GB internal drive where i stored movies, music and it was also used as a scratch disk for Final Cut.

Time Machine

I use a Mac which can utilise a thing called the Time Machine which is built into the operating system. Judging by the reviews of it and demonstrations on the apple website, it looks pretty decent - it can literally go back in time and recover something you deleted yesterday, a week ago, even a month or two ago!

I was curious about it so I decided to test it out. I pulled one of my RAIDed 1TB hard drives out and hooked it up to an external enclosure (from eBay for about £20) formatted it and within seconds my mac asked me if i wanted to use it as a 'Time Machine Backup'. (Note here that my system still worked exactly like it did before - even by pulling one of the RAIDed hard drives!)

It took around 10hrs (i left it over night) for Time Machine to copy everything from my 1TB main system disk to the backup (approx 700GB of data). From my applications to photos, documents to 3D work, everything was backed up. The great thing about time machine is that it generates a backup of files that have been changed, deleted or modified - so it isnt just copying anything and everything.

I bought an Iomega Prestige 1TB hard drive yesterday so add to my time machine backup - so i'd have 2 time machine backups of my hard drive. One (the nicer looking Iomega drive) will be kept beside my mac constantly backing up and the other will be kept elsewhere, in another room or offsite, and backed up weekly. Its a good failsafe in case anything massively crazy happened like a fire or freak powersurge that could fry ALL power-connected hardware.

So far so good!

Sunny :]

Monday 6 April 2009

FREE Kodak Prints! :)

hey guys, I saw this offer and thought i'd post it here! 40 FREE prints when you sign up (£1.39 delivery). Might as well! how often do you print the pics you take? exactly! Click HERE for the link!