You know that sinking feeling

You know that sinking feeling you get when you’ve finished a massive shoot and you discover a memory card has completely corrupted?

You feel sick to the core as you work through the options. How to recover the files? How to break the news to the client? How to make it work without reshooting the entire thing and having to pay for it?

Ugh.

I had a similar experience just a few days ago where I discovered that over the last few months, some photographers signing up to watch a webinar replay had received a deluge of Emails, some on the same day. Talk about gaslighting!

If you were one of those photographers who received all those Emails and didn’t unsubscribe from my list, thank you. I really don’t know why you didn’t because blimey, it was an onslaught for sure.

And I’m so sorry. I really want to assure you that it is not normal practice.

When these things happen it’s really hard not to be paralysed by worry.

In fact I actually froze my weekly Email, in abject fear that one more Email would be the tipping point.

But I know that it’s best to own this stuff.

I mean, you can’t just bury your head in the sand and hope your client doesn’t notice an entire set of images is missing.

Or in my case that you may have received 4 Emails on one day (gulp).

And then have to do your best to fix it.

In my case we have of course now discovered the issue and stopped it.

In fact I’m working my way through the list trying to apologise individually to everyone it happened to.

If you received a barrage of Emails over a few weeks, please forgive me.

Thank you as always for being in my world, especially when the shit hits the fan!