I spent 2 weeks in Alaska last year. I would take one wide angle for landscapes and one long lens for wildlife. Take one body and keep the long lens on it (in case you see wildlife you will be ready). Landscapes don't move so you will have time to swap lenses. One guy on the trip with me had a huge backpack with two bodies and a lot of lenses. Weighed a ton and I can still see him struggling with it.
I wish I had a local camera store to endorse! Disadvantage of a small town.
I have a D7000 with a Nikkor 18-300mm lens which I am very happy with. I use it for almost everything, my go to lens. If I could only carry one lens, that would be it.
Was there last fall and it was great. Look for Pitoe Lake also. It's on the Banff-Jasper highway and it is beautiful. Some of the images I shot are on my Smugmug site if you are interested.
Maybe there are just so many more Nikon users.
I use a Macbook Pro with Adobe CC and photos on an external drive. You can then access your photos and do post processing on virtually any computer no matter where you are. I use a second external drive as a backup. It's worked out fine so far and a lot cheaper than buying a new computer.
I would imagine that most people could not tell the difference between photos taken with a FF and a cropped. If you are a professional you might be able to tell.
Thanks for the kind words. I appreciate the compliment.
I went on a similar Alaska trip last summer. I only took my D7000 and my Nikkor 18-300 lens. You will probably use 18mm more than 300mm but it's nice to have. A few of the photos I took are on my Smugmug page along with some of the Canadian Rockies on same trip.
I use a Nikkor 18-300 on my D7000. A bit heavy but covers all the bases (or most of them).
Do thet have to be taken during the contest period, or can we go through our files to find one?
Rights are one thing, but purposefully baiting a police officer to prove it is another. He was looking for trouble and he found it.
I understand your frustration. I am a licensed healthcare professional. But to get my license required 6 years of university (after I successfully passed an entrance examination) and one year of internship. My license is also fairly expensive to renew every 2 years. What I am getting at is this. If you are going to require a license for any type of work, there must be some organization recognized as the "overseer" of that job/trade/profession. They must make the rules and decide how much education/training is required, what kind of examinations must be passed, and what fees will be assessed. There must be examination and licensing boards established to test and issue licenses to those individuals that complete the training and examinations successfully. Of course, before that can be done there must be regulations written and standards set. Then there must be investigators trained and hired to monitor the job/trade/profession to insure that everyone working in that job/trade/profession is properly licensed to do so. Then state and/or federal governments must enact regulations to limit the sale of cameras and related equipment to those individuals with valid licenses. Camera stores will require licensing and not be allowed to sell to anyone without a license. At the door to many popular events would be "agents" checking the licenses of individuals entering with cameras. They may even search you if they suspect you are hiding a camera on your person. Fines and/or license suspensions could be levied against offenders. The prices of cameras and related equipment would increase by hundreds of percentage points. Licensed photographers will be forced to drastically increase their prices, forcing consumers to limit thier use of a photographer's services. And on and on until the job/trade/profession is deregulated and then we are right back where we started.
Of course I exaggerate, perhaps, but there is a point somewhere in my ramblings. I suppose the point could be "be careful what you wish for".
But ponder this. If we can't control the use of guns, how in the world could we ever expect to control the use of cameras?
Thank you for being patient.
What about a "Spotter Scope", such as used on a firing range? I believe there are such that you can use to measure distance to the "target". Of course, you would have to record the distance somehow in order to refer back to it when viewing the photo on your computer.