Bark & Bowl is a charity event held to raise funds for fighting canine cancer, and is sponsored by the National Canine Cancer Foundation. A few photos from the Bark & Bowl meet are here: https://www.flickr.com/photos/antnommer/albums/72157660908321316

You may notice that there are very few photos there. That's because my camera corrupted yet another memory card, and this time it seems permanent. I turned the camera off to swap a lens, and made sure it wasn't accessing the card before hand. Lens swapped, I turned it back on, and it sat for a second then said it couldn't read the card. Turned off and on again, same error. Later, I tried the usual tricks (sad that I have "usual tricks" for this sort of situation) to recover the photos, but the card couldn't be read by my computer, either. Nor could I make a disk image or format it. After doing some research, it seems that the card's chip detected a catastrophic writing error and tripped its write protection, a permanent fail-safe meant to keep the card readable. Since the corruption of the card means I can't read it unless formatting first, and I can't format because of the write protection, the card is a dud, and the photos are lost. I used a different card the rest of the night, but was only able to get those few shots.

While I don't like going through crowd-funding to pay for new camera equipment, I fully appreciate every little bit that has been donated! But my camera situation has become more dire, and I need more help to reach my goal and get past this small nightmare. If you can share my campaign around on furry sites and social media, it'll reach more people, and hopefully I'll reach my goal before long. It would really help me out a lot! Here's the link: https://www.gofundme.com/antnommer