Not sure of your time deadline. If in a hurry and doing your own framing then Michaels has good prices. With a longer time to prepare then Ebay sells mattes for about a third of store prices. Ebay also has frames with real glsss as well as bulk plastic frame "glass".

I have a Yashicamat 124G in EC [except not sure the meter works--it takes an obsolete battery] with the original box, instruction manual, and MINT leatherette case. The camera takes 120 or 220 roll film. Yours for $100 plus shipping to your zip code.
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I have a pristine YashiczMat124G in original box with case and manual. Interested? Email me at reellawyer@gmail.com

Totally agree !!

There is also an excellent Chihuly museum in downtown St. Petersburg, Florida.

I live just a few miles from Back Bay National Wildlife Refuge in Virginia Beach, Va. Accordingly, whenever the sky "looks promising", I scurry down to the waters edge to take sunset photos. These were all taken over the last few years, largely from the same spot. A few are slightly [or in one case heavily] enhanced using PICSART, but most are natural/as they looked to the viewer.

Oh my gosh--don't worry too much about equipment. Alaska provides so many opportunities for spectacular photos at every turn, just take a camera[s] with which you are totally comfortable. The fellow above gave good advice who said to take something you could use quickly/confidently so you don't hold up your group, assuming you are on a group tour, which you are required to do at Denali Park itself [older green school buses take 30-40 people at a time thorough the park to lessen the impact of multiple cars]. I took great photos with a pocket-size Canon digital with a 12X zoom lens.

Great color--you were either fortuitously there the right time of day, or made it a point to go back later/arrive early to get the sun on the face of the subjects.
The lines of the stream photo draw the viewer's eye nicely into the photo.
My only suggestion is that I think the first few rocks/mountains/plateaus photos would have had more impact if they were not centered, but followed the "Rule of Thirds" where one puts the main subject on one of the intersections of the lines of an imaginary "X and O's" grid. It seems counter-intuitive, but it creates more artistic impact than being centered.

If you love to take cruises, take one in Alaska. The cruises know their business and will show you most of the top tourist sites. However, my wife and I have been to Alaska twice, planned our own two-week trip each time for mid-June, and figure [including a car rental] that we did it for half the price of a one-week cruise. Hint--plan EARLY--Alaska only has a three-month season of warmer weather [June-August] so accommodations and train reservations go quickly. Problem with a cruise [we talked to some cruise people] is they may rush you from place to place when you'd rather spend more time in a nice location, and you never really meet the Alaskan people or go to those memorable small hotels or local restaurants/bars that are so memorable--there are just too many of you on the "booked" cruise tours for a smaller place. Hint--we beat the price of an exorbitant car rental by renting a U-Haul truck for half our trip at $19.95 a day plus mileage, figure we saved two-thirds, had plenty of room for the two of us and baggage. Recommendations?? For sure, start in Anchorage and train up to Denali, but also Marine Highway/ferryboats up the Inside Passage to Skagway [be sure to reserve online for the White Pass and Yukon historic/scenic train ride up into Canada--take a passport--the most highly rated scenic ride in the US]. If going to the southeast Kenai peninsula, for sure Homer and Seward and the boat ride/glacier and whale tours out of each one.

I agree--Photoshop is just too complicated for a casual user. I downloaded a free copy of PicsArt, and found a couple tutorials on youtube that made understanding it/using it easy. Not quite as flexible as Photoshop, but 1) free and 2) WAY easier to use--a lot of point and click features.

I'm a former state and federal prosecutor. Every month, I prosecuted criminal felons in possession of firearms--an absolute prohibition for them under state and federal law, with mandatory imprisonment. For them, the law was no deterrent, just a cost of doing business. Any new gun-restricting measure you pass, like having metal detectors in hotels, will be scrupulously obeyed by the honest/decent citizens and circumvented by criminals. Are you going to inspect all of the employees and supplies coming in the loading dock? You will inevitably disarm the decent, making them easy prey for criminals who will "find a way" around it. I don't say "don't do anything", but right now heroin is strictly illegal, and heroin abuse is rampant across our country.... Even the secret service will tell you, despite the extraordinary measures they take to protect the president, that their greatest fear is a determined assassin who doesn't care if he dies in an attempt on a government figure.

Its striking how things "come around" over time. Back in the early 1900's, cars were seen as a SOLUTION to the problem of horse droppings all over the city streets, and of needing barns to house horses and carriages, and seen as a solution to crowded downtown parking problems, because a car [horseless carriage] took half the space to park as a horse-drawn carriage, and made less of a mess on the street and did not require water troughs, etc..

I am also a reenactor photographer--as well as a reenactor [although of the Civil War, not the Revolution]. You managed to create that "period of time" effect by isolating your subjects from modern distractions--people I modern garb, automobiles, telephone poles, etc. I've attached a couple of my own photos from when attended the 150th anniversary in July 2013 of the battle of Gettysburg [July 1863].

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Here in Virginia Beach, the best sunsets are in the late Fall through early Winter. These two were taken the last day of September, at Back Bay National Wildlife Refuge, which is about three miles from my house. If you're wondering how I get sunsets living in an east-coast city, these photos were taken looking west over the huge inland bay of the refuge. They were taken with my pocket-size digital Canon 520 ELPH, an amazing little camera.

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A good friend of mine raises purebred Labs [Goldens, not Blacks]--it doesn't surprise me that your two Labs sought out the child you photographed with them. My friend says Labs love kids, and will ignore adults and walk across a room to meet and play with a child.