They are all stored in Aperture and its library is on an external Drive and they are not actually on my hard drive

Ah - I think on first look Annie's solution should work. Taa

I never delete from my card - when it's full, I format and use a new one and the old one is safely stored away .

Aperture is set up the easy way - plug in the card reader with card in and Aperture opens up and everything automatically drops in . Since I'm somewhat technologically challenged I try and make things fool proof - doesn't always work though

Crumbs - just had a look - he took 66 pics !! Hmmm they certainly can't go by e-mail or as a data upload

Must investigate DropBox and see if he can extract them from that. He admitted he was a bit trigger happy

Was away over the weekend - a one night stop in Dublin for two special Services.

Took a few piccies most of which I'm quite pleased with but in the middle of these 165 shots are some taken by a friend 'cos I was hemmed in unable to move - and he went err a bit trigger happy with the Pentax [ needless to say it was the only one there and I really felt a little odd when I had to hold a N**** one at one point as the owner wanted his video camera off the tripod for a hand held sequence and there was nowhere to safely park his N**** ]

However I need to send Andrij his pics so he can edit them to suit himself . I'm shooting in RAW and if I export his pics from Aperture they go in jpeg format automatically.

Any idea how I can get them to him in RAW - other than sending him the card from the camera ? I'm not sure if they are DNG or PEF [ will need to dig into the camera to find out how I set it ]

yes - it's called relaxation - he's not holding his camera quite as tightly

I'm a life member of the NTS - we took out a joint membership many many years ago - certainly paid off when the kids were young

My flipping central heating has kicked into action

Senn - do you mean NON pentax cameras - i.e. Canon , Nikon , Fujii etc ?

It's here tomorrow - so main road through the town shut all day

To add insult to injury it's the annual Town jollification on Saturday - so the main street is shut again - all day .

Have to say I would have no problems getting entries up either for the weekly or the fortnightly = and I'm no genius.

Why don't I enter
1) - well being honest - very aware that the pics I take do not come up to the high standards I see here.

2) seem to have lost my mojo with the frankly awful weather we have had since last summer.

3) Photos I have taken have been entirely on subjects I've chosen myself - usually because they were sort of forced on me - daughter's wedding in Feb and now various sets of liturgically themed ones .

Why don't I have a real go at the fortnightly comp ( which would be good for me as it would force me to go out and have a go ) - as above and total lack of confidence .

If I'm out and about the Kx is on my BlackRapid RS-W1 - very comfy.

If I'm in a one place sort of thing, then it's on the Pentax strap , round my neck etc or with the strap round my wrist twice and the K-x in my hand .

I'll be using it in a Church Service soon [ very big occasion ] from a static point [ my seat ] so the camera will be beside me so I can just grab it quickly when the opportunity arises.