On my walk around Dixon Reservoir I found this most beautiful plant I do not remember ever seeing before. At first I thought it was in the milkweed family because I found it near some mildweeds. But, it’s scientific name is Euphorbia marginata or called Snow-on-the-mountain. I would not recommend trying to say the scientific name if you have a mouth full of peanut butter, just saying. It has grey-green leaves along branches and smaller leaves in terminal whorls with edges trimmed with wide white bands, creating, together with the white flowers, the appearance that gives the plant its common names. I thought they were beautiful!
When I went to upload this image my laptop could not find any photos, either through Lightroom or Finder. I changed card readers and the same thing. Grabbed the manual and began looking up the card information on the card slots. Wanted to make sure I had the camera set up correctly as it is my first camera with dual card slots. I wanted it to be in the Sequence mode, storing images on the card in slot 1 until full then begin storing to slot 2. I had it set up right. I began to think it was a bad SD card. Put the SD card back in the camera and playback showed all the images. It was then that I found the images were stored on the second SD card. I’ve discovered that if you do not have the SD card all the way in, or not even have a card in slot 1, the camera will default to storing images in slot 2 if there is a card in the slot.
So, I learned two lessons yesterday. One was the information on this plant and the second one about my dual storage slots on the new Fujifilm X-T3 camera.
4 Comments
Earl
A lovely plant with a very distinctive variegated pattern. Good that your X-T3 saved the images.
I can’t remember which camera but I use to have one that if you didn’t have a card in it or the card wasn’t seated properly it would not issue any warnings and would continue letting you “make photos” but they would not be saved anywhere. I didn’t have that camera for long and it was years ago. 😉
Have a good weekend, Monte!
Monte Stevens
It is my assumption that the card was not seated. It sure could be another scenario. it would be frustrating to discover images were not being stored. I remember a vacation where I did not get my film seated properly. When I got to image 37 then 38 I know I had a problem. I still had a good roll of film to shoot, thought. 🙂
Tom Dills
That is a beautiful plant and also one that I have never seen before. Nice find and thanks for looking up the name!
I had a similar experience with my X-T4 last week. While I had taken the card out of Slot 1 to download the images, I turned the camera on to check a setting. Evidently with no card in Slot 1 in reverted to Slot 2, because the next group of photos I captured were on Card 2 even though there was plenty of space on Card 1. Kind of strange, and I wonder what would happen if I then filled Card 2 – would it go back and write to Card 1? Dunno.
Monte Stevens
I had never thought of that scenario and sure could have been the situation. Everything seems to be functioning just fine now.