It happened again. I plug my external hard drive into my computer and my computer doesn’t recognize the hard drive. Unlike the past two hard drive failures, I am slightly more prepared for this one.

A few weeks prior, I backed up the hard drive to Amazon photos, an amazing service that comes included with your prime account. It offers unlimited photo storage, for no extra charge. ***If you are a photographer with an Amazon prime account, stop reading this and go back up your files.***

Another form of backup are the memory cards from my more recent photoshoots. This was a trick I learned from photographer, Kaye Ford. Always leave your photos on the memory card until the files are backed up and delivered to the client.

Moral of the story, backup your files, always! And back up to a cloud service, because external hard drives just don’t cut it.

Happy Halloween!