Richard B.

Perhaps you are confusing off line with off site? All my critical photos are backed up on my zenfolio website. Zenfolio is always online (apart from the occasional maintenance window) but is ...

Both disks (and all my computer equipment) run from a UPS, risk of power spikes is negligible. I used the term mirroring in a general sense. I used Carbon Copy to move what is new from the primary ...

I use two 4T disk drives for all my photos One drive is a mirror of the other. All my raws and image catalogues are duplicated on these drives. This mitigates against the risk of one of the drives ...

That sounds like a great trip! I can't help with Florence, but another suggestion for London would be Camden Market. In addition to all the market stalls etc., the market  is on Camden lock on the ...

Personally I only upload full size jpegs to Zenfolio and just keep raw locally, but Zenfolio accept does accept raw files, why not upload raw+jpeg, rather than tiff?

Great capture, excellent detail.

I haven't often seen samples from the 14mm, but you have a very nice set, I especially liked the driftwood on the beach shot - beautiful light and well captured. I did considered the 14mm f2.8 when ...

Ian, thanks glad you enjoyed the shots and hope you can make it back to the US sometime.

Thanks for the information and sample. I am not sure what year I will be back for fall, but I will keep my fingers crossed and hope I get some color.

Mike, a very nice set. I thought the B&W treatment worked well for the hazy conditions, giving a little more structure to some of the compositional elements, such as the trees.

Eric thanks, I really like the Ltd's, they make a very nice set to landscape work and always deliver great results.

Mike, thanks, it was my first visit to Shenandoah. I am hoping to get back in fall at some point and capture some of the fall color.

Thanks, I think #1 is my favorite also. I was really lucky with the sky that morning, with the clouds breaking up as the sun was rising.

Jim, I am not sure how much snow there was in Shenandoah this year. There wasn't any snow underfoot in the areas I visited, but I do see in some of the distance shots that some of the mountains ...

Tom, thanks, I think that landscape is a little more forgiving of wide angle distortion when the horizon is not too straight and I had plenty of mountains to break up the horizon in Shenandoah.

I spent a few days in the Shenandoah national park at the beginning of April. The trees were mostly still dormant, but there were a few cherries in bloom and we had some interesting weather: sun, ...

I have been a big fan of the Sony 16MP sensor - I have used the same sensor in three different cameras, a Sony, a Nikon and finally the K-5IIs. I switched to the Pentax to get back to an OVF and ...

I am assuming you will be on the South rim, rather than the North rim? There aren't any bad spots, but I am personally fond of Lipan point and Moran point out on the Desert Road. The canyon starts ...

I wouldn't consider Acadia without a wide angle option. The Acadia shoreline, and island in general, has plenty of weathered rock formations that just need a wide angle. So for me, the Nikon ...

I routinely use a set of 4 primes for travel/vacation shooting. I tend to mount the lens I will think will be the most use for what I am shooting. For example, maybe the 21mm for a street market, ...