Good advice. I do backup to an external drive but not a CD I will start doing that for double safety. I will definitely start saving all of the originals from now on too, before this I have only saved the cropped ones. (d'oh).
That makes sense how/why you crop the way you do.

I just uploaded all of the images, the ordering isn't working yet there is a glitch but you can see the thumbnails and the closeups of each anyway. I am still not real happy with all the crops but they aren't as bad as I was envisioning...I like #3 for instance, the flowers fill out the sides if a 4 x 6 is ordered but still allows room for cropping to 8 x 10. Still, many could be a lot better.

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