Thank you for sharing. Very interesting and I would like to see the tech data.

Mike,

I have had good luck with Aluminyze.com. They are in NYC.

Impressive, thanks for sharing. 👍👍👍

Here is a link to the one I bought for my monopod.
https://www.amazon.com/Desmond-DMH-01-Monopod-Tripod-Compatible/dp/B073LBJF3C/ref=sr_1_52?ie=UTF8&qid=1519049347&sr=8-52&keywords=Tripod+tilt+head

You can also purchase just a Acra connection clamp at Amazon if you don’t want the tilt feature.

Have you contacted the support folks at Buffalo. They should be able to help you trouble shoot and may offer some help in recovering your files.

A former colleague who is active in the Houston photography society has Parkinson’s disease and uses high shutter speeds for his photographs. He has a realy good eye and does remarkably well.

Jim,
Welcome to the Hog.

That will be easy. Your Mac Operating System includes a Migration App. The folks at the Apple Store will also help you when you purchase your new Mac. Make sure you have your old Mac with you though. You can migrate selectively or completely as desired.

I just checked on my Mac. The individual files in Documents in iCloud and backed up by Time Machine are available. The individual photos if using Apple Photos are not. But the complete Apple Photos library file is. Your "Photos" images are contained in this data file. If needed I can recover the complete Photos library from Time Machine but not individual photos. You may want to check your Time Machine setting to make sure the that you have not excluded any important files or directories.

If you are otherwise a happy Mac users then I would not switch to Windows. But, I am sure you can find an adequate Windows machine for less than the cost of a comparable Mac device, but be prepared to pay for regular upgrades to your operating systems as well as buying or subscribing to basic software packages such as work processing and spread sheets. You will also need to export all of your images from Photos prior to moving them to a windows machine.

You might consider subscribing and learning Lightroom This will allow you to control the location of your images and enable you to recover selected images from your backup drive. But again you will need to export your images from Photos and then import them into Lightroom.

I use Lightroom as my primary editing package. All photos are imported and edited in Lightroom. I then export selected photos as 8"x10" jpg file and import them into the Photos app. This makes them available to my family members on their computers, iPhone and iPads via our common iCloud account.

Good luck with your decision.

Thank you for your helping me with my post. How do we add this info to the FAQ section? I checked there before attempting my first photo.

Thanks,
Jan

Thank you for your comments. My wife, the resident horticultist, has pointed out this is Red Maple not a Silver Leaf as I originally posted. Should have asked for a proof read.😉

Ok

Please do.

We have had an unusually hard winter this year in SW TX. Only the very cold hardy plants have survived. But, our Silver Leaf Maple is budding out and is a welcome site for the local bee population. Here are a few shots. Comments are welcomed.

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Lesson learned. Thanks for taking the time to respond.