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This is a great idea. I currently only use my cell phone for pics but, sometime soon i'd like to get a higher quality camera since we are starting to travel more and will be even more as my boys get older.
I was a commercial still photographer for 18 years. My first digital camera was a Kodak DCS 460. It was $60k, shot only ISO 80, an the images were 6.2 megapixels. I quess I'm just trying to say, don't take your cell phone camera for granted ;-)
 
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I was a commercial still photographer for 18 years. My first digital camera was a Kodak DCS 460. It was $60k, shot only ISO 80, an the images were 6.2 megapixels. I quess I'm just trying to say, don't take your cell phone camera for granted ;-)
That was the best thing I have watched all day.
Shot professionally in the 80s, but auto racing pulled me into a different career path in the 90s. Clients included Warn Industries, Subaru, Ford, Volvo-White, other automotive stuff.... shot film, 8x10, 4x5, 120 and 35mm. Sold the Sinars, Hasselblads and Canon F2ns to fund the racing and because they were just sitting there. Finally picked up a digital (Canon 20d ) and dabbled a little. I now carry (everywhere) the 20d because it isn't worth anything, a G11 and a 6d full frame...and my iPhone. My collection of lens keeps growing. 16-35 L 2.8, 24-105 L 4 IS, 70-200 L 2.8 IS II and my new favorite 100-400 L 4.5 IS II. Now I just need to learn how to store all the images I shoot. I'm not the most organized individual and always had assistants and lab rats to do that stuff. Post production is not my specialty. Just this past month I started organizing a new catalog in Lightroom and now I can't get LR to find it. Time to call in a professional...

I shoot mostly for my business website and weekly newsletter. Also started a new blog for my life after fly shop transition and non-fishing adventures. Haven't really printed any art pieces since the local Cibachrome printing place closed. I'm hoping to rekindle the passion and figure out the digital deal. I use to love to walk around the locations I shot at and do my own stuff on the 35mm. Momma don't take my Kodachrome away... too late.

Here's a couple images from a fishing trip to the Deschutes this week and a few favorites from other trips this year.

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Rock Dragon plays with the Moon

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Warm Springs Indian Ponies

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Blitzen River

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San Felipe, Yucatan

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Pacific City

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Whistler, BC

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Hope to see you on the trail. Cheers
 

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Shot professionally in the 80s, but auto racing pulled me into a different career path in the 90s. Clients included Warn Industries, Subaru, Ford, Volvo-White, other automotive stuff.... shot film, 8x10, 4x5, 120 and 35mm. Sold the Sinars, Hasselblads and Canon F2ns to fund the racing and because they were just sitting there. Finally picked up a digital (Canon 20d ) and dabbled a little. I now carry (everywhere) the 20d because it isn't worth anything, a G11 and a 6d full frame...and my iPhone. My collection of lens keeps growing. 16-35 L 2.8, 24-105 L 4 IS, 70-200 L 2.8 IS II and my new favorite 100-400 L 4.5 IS II. Now I just need to learn how to store all the images I shoot. I'm not the most organized individual and always had assistants and lab rats to do that stuff. Post production is not my specialty. Just this past month I started organizing a new catalog in Lightroom and now I can't get LR to find it. Time to call in a professional...

I shoot mostly for my business website and weekly newsletter. Also started a new blog for my life after fly shop transition and non-fishing adventures. Haven't really printed any art pieces since the local Cibachrome printing place closed. I'm hoping to rekindle the passion and figure out the digital deal. I use to love to walk around the locations I shot at and do my own stuff on the 35mm. Momma don't take my Kodachrome away... too late.

Here's a couple images from a fishing trip to the Deschutes this week and a few favorites from other trips this year.

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Rock Dragon plays with the Moon

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Warm Springs Indian Ponies

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Blitzen River

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San Felipe, Yucatan

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Pacific City

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Whistler, BC

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Hope to see you on the trail. Cheers
You and I have led parallel lives! I had a Sinar, Hasselblads, Fuji 680, but I ran Nikons. I shot for Honda, Nissan, Mitsubishi, and lots of aftermarket companies. Also raced cars :-)
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You and I have led parallel lives! I had a Sinar, Hasselblads, Fuji 680, but I ran Nikons. I shot for Honda, Nissan, Mitsubishi, and lots of aftermarket companies. Also raced cars :-)
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If you fly fish I'm freaking out... my first ride was this little Rabbit. 19 bunnies in class here in PDX. The Bunny Bash was the group to run in if you wanted to learn to race. Never was beat by another Rabbit... but a few Golfs could nip me at the line on the straightaway. Rabbit had the aero of a brick... Toyota gave me my second car, a Paseo, and I ended my racing career with 6 straight wins in class. Fun stuff. My wife drove too and she was a member of the PPG CART/IndyCar Pace Car Team. We got to hang out with all the heroes of the day at some very cool tracks. Good times for sure.

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If you fly fish I'm freaking out... my first ride was this little Rabbit. 19 bunnies in class here in PDX. The Bunny Bash was the group to run in if you wanted to learn to race. Never was beat by another Rabbit... but a few Golfs could nip me at the line on the straightaway. Rabbit had the aero of a brick... Toyota gave me my second car, a Paseo, and I ended my racing career with 6 straight wins in class. Fun stuff. My wife drove too and she was a member of the PPG CART/IndyCar Pace Car Team. We got to hang out with all the heroes of the day at some very cool tracks. Good times for sure.

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I started out running Autocross in a Datsun 510. Ended up in a Spec Series called "Baby Grand". It was a 5/8 scale Winston Cup car. Tubular chassis. One piece Fiberglas body. FJ1100 Yamaha motorcycle engine. I ran Willow Srings, Laguna Seca, and Sears Point. I was even the first car to drive the tri-oval in Vegas (demonstration for investors).
 

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I started out running Autocross in a Datsun 510. Ended up in a Spec Series called "Baby Grand". It was a 5/8 scale Winston Cup car. Tubular chassis. One piece Fiberglas body. FJ1100 Yamaha motorcycle engine. I ran Willow Srings, Laguna Seca, and Sears Point. I was even the first car to drive the tri-oval in Vegas (demonstration for investors).
I wheeled a Baby Grand once around the road course for a test session. Decided to stick with door slammers. Felt too much like a Vienna sausage..... Better add a photo or two here to keep this thread legit....

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Good, and thanks... I'm curious what our resident pro WUzombies thinks of the Rokinon 14mm 2.8 lens. I figured out after our last trip that my old a300 just doesn't do it justice. Here are two images, the first, the tub of pine cones, was the 2nd shot I ever took with this lens. The second was taken in Big Bend 3 months later. Needless to say, I'm still learning to use it. View attachment 6289 View attachment 6290
Sorry I've been away from this thread for a while and didn't see this post.

Rokinon lenses have become popular for the video crowd, many of the lenses being available with geared zoom and focus rings for video rigs. Only recently have they offered autofocus lenses, some of their other/older lenses that were manual focus only tested OK compared to other options in the same category. However, for the price it is easier to put up with some odd quirks. I'd rather shop used lenses of a higher quality than buy a new Rokinon, but that's my personal perspective.

The bottom photo, is that from Terlingua Abajo off of Old Mavick Road in Big Bend?
 

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Here are a couple from our big trip this June. We hit the Tetons, Yellowstone, Glacier, Arches and Mesa Verde over three weeks and frankly it's nearly impossible to take good photos in locations like those! Although the selfie-stick wars in Yellowstone with the herds of full sized tour buses was annoying.


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That old car was near the Mariscal Mercury Mines, just off Talley rd.
I forgot about that one. Boy do I love me some Big Bend, we're headed back over New Years to take the kids on the South Rim for an overnight backpacking venture. If we're lucky we'll be able to base camp down in the Pine Canyon sites.

Since this is a photo thread this is "Four Fingers Until Sunset" a self portrait in the Basin over the Window.

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We are planning a trip for 6 weeks next April. So far, back packing into the Painted Desert is our first stop, on to Moab, Grand Staircase, Death Valley, Redwood NP, then on up 101 to the Olympic Peninsula, then head home. I'm attempting to include Big Bend as our first stop, but I'm also thinking blowing thru for three days isn't enough. We camped at Elephant Tusk for 3 nights last March and explored from there on foot, and wheelin around. It seems to me, just like most of our larger NPs that another 3 days just won't do it justice, so we may save it till late 2017 and spend a full week there. Here are a couple of images taken from the campsite. In the second photo if one looks closely, our campsite is visible. We had the entire basin all to ourselves.. DSC02870.jpg IMG_2834.jpg DSC02956.jpg
 

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I'm attempting to include Big Bend as our first stop, but I'm also thinking blowing thru for three days isn't enough.
I've spent about 30 days in the park and I haven't come close to seeing it all. :grimacing:

Three days would give you a "highlights" tour, hit Santa Elena, Lost Mine, The Window, Cattail Falls, Hot Springs and the various scenic overlooks, but if you want to see some of the really neat backcountry stuff along the primitive/unimproved roads then you won't see much. You might be able to squeeze in Ernst Tijana or the mine. A full week and you can hit the highlights and still spend a couple of days off pavement and maybe swing out to Big Bend Ranch State Park and Terilingua to enjoy sunset drinking a tasty beverage at the Starlight.

All the neat parks seem to require lifetimes to see and experience all that there is to offer. Even then a single lifetime may not be enough either.
 

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We stayed at the Chisos Mining Company, ate at the tiny Mexican restaurant then on the porch at the motel shared more than a few libations with Frank Armstrong and his cadre of fellow photographers. A night to remember as Frank was a plethora of knowledge, about Big Bend and photography... My other half and I have decided to go back but spend a lot more than 3 days there backpacking and hitting the two tracks.