Along the Colorado River.

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Been a long, long, long time since I've been in the Self Help --much less the Professional Help-- business, but why should that stop me from suggesting what will surely cure your ills:

Go shoot whatever it is that matters to you. Go shoot it once or go shoot it a million times; spray & pray if you must, or pare it down to the dozen exposures you'll need to properly stack it. Above all else, don't bother to shoot with the intent that whatever you shot will be something that anyone other than yourself might deem 'beautiful' or 'epic' or 'pithy' or even 'snapshot worthy'.

Shoot for you. And if you shoot what genuinely matters to you, you'll at the very least be shooting honestly.

Win 3.1??? Tried to upgrade to that but the machine I have wouldn't accept it. That said, could someone please tell me what better, beefier, more powrful computer I might buy? (My budget is presently slightly meager, but if that same someone could perhaps co-sign for me, maybe I might be able to get financing for what? maybe $10,000 or so?.... Any co-signers out there? Please? Don't know that I can live without this Sound Vision setup and it's ten intact cables!

IT'S TEN INTACT SERIAL CABLES!

bE STIll mY Hort! (Or at least until my co-signer comes through for me. In 5....... 4...... 3..... 2.... 2 and 1/2... 2 and 1/4............................. 1 and 1/8th................................................... a 16th........................................)

Nothing beats just being there. Good stuff, Jack

That's eminently magnanimous of you, Paul. You're clearly post-Doctorially degreed from the 'you get what you pay for' School of Economics.

I feel for Kate. I really do! So much so that I sent her an email that informed her that I could teach her PhotoShop, LightRoom, Affinity, PaintShop Pro, DXO and/or dozens of other image editing software packages for the low, low price of only 99.94. (I left it open as to whether that was in British pounds, US dollars, Yen, Pesos, metric tonnes [note the British spelling there!] of gold, silver, diamonds & rubies, or Rubles (&etc) because to some, one or another of those might make a difference.... overall, as everyone knows, if you have to ask the price of something, you probably can't afford it.) In that same email, I likewise mentioned that I'd be honored to take on the task of doing any photo editing tasks she might in the future require, and said I'd do it gratis, but shipping & handling costs would probably apply.)

I haven't heard back from her yet. But when I do, prepare to see me posting pix of the island I'm planning to buy.

More sand rail shots please! And dunes, too!

This is what could happen to you if you take eight separate photos of the same scene, but take them from eight separate positions then merge the lot together. Some might call it 'Yard Art', but it may be more accurate to say it's 'Outdoor Boudoir: Nekkid, Horny and Totally Photoshopped.' (Full disclaimer: only ONE 'bull' exists in reality.)

(Should I have posted this somewhere other than here in the Gallery? Like maybe in the Pano Section or somewhere?)

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Nothing to be sorry about, Wallen. What you constructed is rather a decent fiction. Mary Shelley, Boris Karloff, Gene Wilder and the torch & pitchfork wielding villagers would all likely approve. Heck, I'd bet that Igor --that's EYE-gore, doctor!-- might like it, too.

Best thing about your Frankenpic creation is that --to quote the good doctor-- it's alive! ... IT'S ALIIIIVVVVE!!! And, of course, that the body parts were fresh and the brain was less diseased. Could've used a stormier sky, though, and a lot more lightning, but that's just my literary humble opinion.

So, I typed that URL into my computer machine, Barre --and thanks for that!!!-- and.... Oh. My. Heck! All this time, all these years, I was under the impression that Arthur Penn's 1967 love story about some nice people who looked just like Faye Dunaway and Warren Beaty was nothing more than a Hollywood chick-flick!

Then I remembered that I'd tried to watch a couple of Bonnie & Clyde's 'How To Rob A Bank' YouTube videos, but found I couldn't really get into them. Not that tommy guns aren't nice or anything like that, and I suppose they are, but instead because, at heart, I'm more a landmine sorta guy. And besides, who in their right mind would want to rob a bank when there's plenty of juicy stagecoaches still rolling around loaded down with gold? With a tommy gun, you gotta be there; with a landmine, it's just set it, forget it, and go pick up the ingots at your convenience.

Glad to be of assistance, Cheepf. Because as Ansel Adams always said: "That'll be $9,000, please. And for another ten bucks I'll get it framed for you, too!"

Cha-chingggggg

Criminey, Cheepf! You KNOW I only buy my lenssses from Onnist Abe's of Maine. Or maybe you didn't know where 'we in the KNOW' get our bestest deals on lenses!

Now, on to adapting my sweet, sweet Bosch & Lomb Protar onto my trusty Diana camera......

Done and done. Mike turned it down, though. Seems he can't stand the sight of blood, and doesn't like tumbleweeds much either.

CanonShot! Barre! Please! This is THE GALLERY, ffs! You know (don't you?) that neither fisticuffs nor mayhem nor displays of quick-draw-itude are allowed here in THE GALLERY!

...oh, wait.... I spoke (wrote) TOO SOON! (Serves me right, I suppose. Then again, as a proper [or occasionally improper... but let's not dwell on that] card-carrying Hoglodyte, I, too, have become conditioned to not actually read the stuff that anybody writes. (Something I learned early on when confronted: answer only: I'm ONLY here to look at the pictures!)

So... golf-clap to CanonShot for having shown us all the gentlemanly (or gentlewomanly, or gentlepersonly, whatever) way out of this conundrum!

But if the two of you do prefer to perform that test of quick-draw-itude, could/would one or the other of you --or anybody else who might read this [HAH! AS IF!]-- please opine on which lens I might bring to record the carnage?

p.s.: Bonnie & Clyde? Who're they? EVERYBODY knows this this relic belonged to Butch & Etta!

A little more wide angle on anything here would've forced me to include elements I didn't want to include. I mean, really! How out of place would the Eiffel Tower, a jetport, and a Gucci Outlet Store look within the context of what DID get included here? And "desolation"??? Crikey, none of these show "desolation". You want "desolation", I can show you some desolation! Utah's full of it. (Desolation, I mean.)

But if you wanna edit something, have at it. (Can we haz generative fill, pleze?)