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Steven Frischling
Live: HVN
Work: JFK-SFO-CDG-HKG
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Steven Frischling, aka: Fish, is globe hopping professional photographer, airline emerging media consultant working with large global airlines and founder of The Travel Strategist. Fish has racked up more than 1,000,000 miles since he started to track his mileage in 2005.

Fish's travel tends to be less than leisurely, including flying from New York to Basrah, Iraq, for six hours; Hong Kong for eight hours, Kuwait City for two hours and traveling around the world in 3.5 days to shoot a series of photo assignments in 4 cities and 4 countries on 3 separate continents.

Fish grew up at the end of New York's JFK International Airport's Runway 4R/22L, which probably explains his enjoyment of watching planes, fly overhead. When not shooting photos or traveling Fish designs camera bags, hones is expertise on airline security and spends his time at home cheering for the Red Sox with his 3 kids 102 yards from the ocean.

…and we’re back…

02.04.2010 | Author: flyingfish | Posted in Uncategorized

4/02/2010 – …and we’re back…

After a week or so of computer transition issues, lost URLs, remembering logins, passwords, installing software, setting up preferences, rewriting and installing Photoshop Actions, attempting to learn Final Cut Express and sending my “TSA borrowed hard drive” off for data recovery (its still out for data recovery) I have moved into a new 13” MacBook Pro (still awaiting the TSA covering the costs of replacing the MacBook they damaged and recovering the data they damaged) …and now I’m getting back to work.

Over the past week or so I have primarily been online, handling email, Twitter and doing much of my work on my iPhone and BlackBerry while getting the new MacBook up to speed…and today I am happy to jump back in and get back to writing Flying With Fish.

On a side note, if Fish v Final Cut Express was a competition, the score would be Fish – 6 and Final Cut Express – 63.

Happy Flying!

4 Responses

  1. Derek Williams February 4th, 2010 at 12:54 pm

    Not to seems like I selling anything, but have you thought about online backups? They seem expensive till something like this happens.

  2. flyingfish February 4th, 2010 at 2:38 pm

    Derek,

    I do backup, however I hadn’t backed up in about a full week, and once I had the machine back and started using it again it became apparent I could not back up anything from that week prior to the TSA borrowing the MacBook or once it was returned.

    I also hadn’t Time Machined my iTunes … which is not mission critical, but it annoying.

    I tried to backup using multiple options, the system simply would not allow for backups due to whatever the US Secret Service Computer Expert did to the MacBook. The corrupt volumes and damage to the OS created multiple problems.

    A week worth of work shouldn’t be such a huge deal… except I had just finished up some research and writing two complete project pitches when I was greeted by a dark coloured late model sedan in my front yard.

    Happy Flying!

    -Fish

  3. The Global Traveller February 4th, 2010 at 7:31 pm

    Fish, good to have you back.

  4. flyingfish February 5th, 2010 at 1:24 am

    Thanks Kiwi…its good to be back!

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