Len Philpot

Wow... that's really nice, Full of motion and drama.

Lately? Affinity Photo. Before that, Hugin, although X-Pano looks promising.

The filters in question were marked as in-stock on K&F's website so I cancelled the B&H enternal-backorder and re-ordered from K&F instead. Just awaiting the backorder email from K&F now...  :-P

Although the f/2.8 is apparently (slightly) sharper pretty much all around than the f/4, it's also heavier and, as you indicated, pricier. From what I've seen it's about 2x the price. Sharper is ...

Hmmm... you're right, the K&F website shows both items in stock (same SKUs). I emailed them yesterday asking about projected availability to resellers, but of course haven't heard back. The ...

Specifically, their Nano-X magnetic filters... Resellers don't seem to have them. Back in early January, my wife ordered two (ND64 & CPL) for my birthday later in the month. At that point the ...

#5 St. Louis Cathedral in New Orleans, shot from the Mississippi River

Yes, you're correct. On my little laptop using its (excuse for a) GPU makes little difference and apparently the AMD OpenCL drivers can be a little buggy so I tend to keep the GPU use disabled ...

It's called ART and is a fork of Raw Therapee, literally " A nother R aw T herapee". It's FOSS (free / open-source software) and what I use for raw development. Website: ...

Is this what you're referring to? Normal Enabled Legend

I think their issues started even earlier, but this certainly hasn't helped. Back in the late '90s I recall them (maybe it was Mike Cowpland himself) stating that Corel would release a brand new major

Pretty much the same here. PSP became a one-button-click "fix" nightmare targeted at hobbyist scrapbookers. I moved to GIMP and then to Affinity Photo. Years (... years ) ago I used CorelDRAW at ...

Anywhere with actual landscape...

Yeah, this appears to be the same timed entry passes that have been required for a few years. We went to ROMO in Aug / Sep 2021 and I just bought a pass for every day, whether or not we had ...

Beautiful image of a beautiful spot. I think I'd continue to scramble, given that kind of scene!  ;-)

Five from me... Sunrise on Valentine Lake, Gardner, Louisiana Wild Rose Pass and Star Mountain sunrise, Fort Davis, Texas Early morning foggy tree, Sandy Hook, Mississippi Afternoon fall color on ...

Less than previous years, hopefully -- in a general sense, not photography. We've been spending a bit too much* at Christmas so we've been cutting back a little in the last few years. Not that ...

All of that was turned off. I don't remember every setting offhand but I know for a fact I did everything I could to disable every kind of automatic / "thinking" capabilities. I almost always ...

Well, it's been uninstalled so I can't check. But it was very sluggish and even though the thumbnail catalog was totally built, it still took a noticeable time to display each one. Other programs ...

Affinity Photo also provides a chance to edit (i.e., at the source image level) stitching glitches before committing the pano.