Talk about beautiful timing. What a shot.

Great shots. As to the comments regarding cropping slightly, one feature of the D850 which I love is the 46 meg image. Cropping usually leaves you with plenty of pixels for most uses.

Two thoughts here...download speeds are much faster than upload speeds so restoring your photos will not take as long as backing them up and...some online backup services will send you a hard drive to which you backup your photos and send the drive back to them. Your first backup is MUCH faster this way. I subscribed to one service and calculated that my initial backup would take 3 months. I cancelled the service.

If you use the operating system to move or copy photos, Lightroom will no longer know where they are. Using Lightroom to import and manage photos simplifies the whole process. Using the operating system forces you to use only one criterion for filing photos, using Lightroom allows you to place images into many categories and find them by all those different criteria.

Great shot. In some areas, the wind generators are getting more common but I don't see many in my rural area. I love the sky.

I think the biggest problem with Photoshop is not "how" to do something but "what" to do. Photoshop will do almost "anything" to "any" photo, so the first question is "what needs to be done". I recommend a couple of Google searches for "Photoshop workflow". When I tried this I got a list of 5 steps. These 5 steps were each relatively easy to accomplish and would give you a good start to editing a photo. Do these 5 steps to a dozen or so photos and you'll be on your way to learning Photoshop. After you've done this you can start looking at Photoshop tips online and finding one that helps you do something that those first 5 did not accomplish. Again. try this on several photos before moving on. After your first 5, learn steps one at a time. As mentioned above you will NEVER learn all of Photoshop.

I think the replies here have been accurate and helpful, "just take photos" might be the best advice. The only time that I see the multiply factor being important is to follow the advice of someone about what focal length lens to use. If you read that the "best" focal length lens for a head and shoulders portrait is 85mm, you need to know the sensor size to follow that advice. If the advice is coming from someone using a full frame camera and you have a Nikon crop-sensor camera, you can calculate that you would get similar results with a 55mm lens.

Is that what it's for? Ouch, that hurt.

For sure Enloop. There are several versions, the cheaper ones do not last as long (per charge) but can be charged 2100 times the more expensive ones last longer (per charge) but can be recharged fewer times.

Now that I've said all this, I went searching and found an article that disagreed with me. Not by a whole lot, but for the price, it recommends Energize Recharge Universal. Here is the link: https://thewirecutter.com/reviews/best-rechargeable-batteries/

It is much easier than dragging our butts through the wet grass. And, our clothes would get in the way of that.

Kodak Carousel projectors have two different slide trays. One version holds 80 slides and the other 120. If you tried the 120 version you may be successful with the 80 which has thicker slots.

I would define it as: for a given lens, aperture, and focal length setting, hyperfocal distance is the closest distance at which you can focus your lens and infinity is still in focus. One half that distance will also be in focus.

For much shooting P will do everything that M will do. I leave ISO on manual control and set it for each shooting situation. The main command dial will adjust both the aperture and the shutter speed simultaneously in opposite directions and maintain the calculated exposure. Exposure compensation will adjust the exposure if the camera's computer is not doing what you want. Note: I said for "much" shooting. Shooting a sports game in P mode will allow the camera to adjust the exposure based on changes in the included background which changes and not the uniforms which do not change except by team and that is a problem also. One team with a dark uniform and another with light uniforms will cause tight shots to show different skin tones for the different teams based on the uniforms and not the skin. So....manual is the way to go here. Wedding photographers also have a problem with men in black tuxes and women in white dresses so....manual is the way to go here also. Manual exposure allows me to create a series of images that look like they belong together, P mode frequently does not. Like some others above, Aperture mode is a favorite and like P mode it uses the camera's computer to determine exposure. I'm a computer guy and carrying around a sophisticated computer and not using it seems a waste.

In Zion park, I was looking up at what I was shooting and seeing its majesty. I got much better photos than those of the Grand Canyon where I was unable (at the time) to get down and see that looking up view. Mid-day light was also poor in the Grand Canyon. Again this is a great shot.

Nice shot. I do love Zion.