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After a long time away from Deviant Art and my sadly neglected profile on here I’m coming back.  Or rather, we are coming back. Since I last posted on here something like five years ago my work has taken a different course. Teaming up with my wife we’ve continued a trend that was already starting to show up back then, moving from the vanilla glamour world to focus far more on the alternative and in particular the fetish world. So over the coming weeks or months you are going to see a new name on this profile to reflect the name we have been operating under for the past five years and you are going to see lots of new images. First

I was just about keeping my head above water in my battle to effectively manage my ever growing image library when one of the memory modules in my ageing Mac Pro died. Multi layer 16 bit versions of 21megapixel images which were already causing me to spend far too much time waiting for the computer, became virtually impossible to edit without bringing tea, sandwiches and a crossword puzzle to kill time. Add to that the growing pile of external drives with their leisurely USB2 data transfer rate and a library split over multi gigabyte Lightroom catalogs and just replacing the duff memory module just wasn't going to cut it. I bit the Bullet

It's not many months ago that I replaced the drives that hold my photo library.  Going from a pair of 1Tb drives to a pair of 3Tb in my Mac.  Given that everything else that happens on that puter lives on two other drives, so that only images and catalogs live on the mirrored 3TB drive, I figured I would be free and clear of storage space hassles for quite a while. Life's just not like that is it? I'm already down to the last 250Gb :( So I've got a choice.  Another sizeable investment in even bigger drives, that like as not, would last me just a few more months, or a long hard look at how I manage my images. Option b. it is. Ok - all of