More precisely, they're supposed to. On this particular day I had to do some end of month work, though fortunately I was able to do that from home. However it did limit my photographic options to a still life. In this case, some rocks that I found on a north Wollongong beach and had planned to make into just such a shot. I'm not really sure that the afternoon sunlight does them justice, though.

I'm very late in posting this image, though part of that has had to do with rearranging my computer so that I can finally start downloading shots again and consequently, get this gallery back to something a lot closer to a photo a day rather than one or two per week. I looked at the prospect of a replacement computer, but high capacity memory modules (which one would think would be more readily available given people wanting to move to 64 bit, as I do) and reasonable capacity solid state drives are both hard to come by. As an interim solution I've bought a new 2 TB external drive for my backups, and the old 1TB backup drive will be recycled for storing photos which are more than a few months old. (And today's Mystery Of The World (TM, AKMC Productions) is... why would it have cost me almost as much to buy one 3TB external drive as to buy two (remarkably cheap) 2 TB drives?)

Yes, this solution will be slow compared to the internal disks, but not as slow as having to shuffle things around to make room to download after every photo shoot.