Good luck with your sale. I bought one last October and really like it.

It's hard to improve on perfection! Keep doing what you're doing.

I also liked your photo and the subject matter very much. We have 5 acres in the Bitterroot Valley, and hope to build on it one of these years if we live long enough.

I agree that you should stick with your point and shoot, but you might consider taking your D5300 and 18-55mm along for a test ride sometime. I have a D5300, a D500 along with a number of DX and FX lenses including the 35mm f/1.8G which is a wonderful prime lens, and the 17-55mm f/2.8G IF-ED mentioned a few posts ago which is also wonderful in different ways. Neither of those lenses have VR. Nikon lists 5 versions of the 18-55mm on their current product page, some with VR, some without. If yours came with your D5300, it probably has VR. If it does it'll say VR on it. Obviously photographers survived without VR, but it is nice to have.

http://www.nikonusa.com/en/nikon-products/camera-lenses/all-lenses/index.page#

The image you posted is equivalent to 25mm in 35mm format. I checked it at the following website.

http://exif.regex.info/exif.cgi

Your 18-55mm picture angle is equivalent to a focal length from 27 to 82.5mm in Nikon FX-format camera or 35mm-format. So it will be similar to your point and shoot on the wide end.

As others have mentioned, the 35mm would be super small and light, but the picture angle would the same as the middle range of your 18-55. You can see what that is like by setting your zoom to 35mm. The 17-55mm f/2.8G IF-ED is a nice fast lens, but it's very heavy, doesn't have VR and only gives a mm of wider zoom.

Good luck, and welcome to the UHH!

At first I thought it was a pain having two different cards, but learned to like it. Initially I set the XQD slot on my D500 as the Primary, and the SD slot for overflow. Before a trip to Europe last year, I changed the SD slot to backup, shooting both in RAW. I replaced the SD card with a new one each day so I wouldn't lose any images if the camera was stolen or some other calamity occurred. SD cards are cheap, so I bought a bunch of fast 32GB cards and never erase them providing one more long term backup which I use all of the time now, traveling or not. I also filled up any extra space left on the cards I had changed daily while traveling. I haven't erased any XQD cards either, thinking it can't hurt to have even more backup.

Great shots! We have the same "SquirrelBuster" feeder that's in your last photo. It's very effective when they climb from below, but this squirrel found a clever work around. We decided to give them their own feeders and added baffles to block climbing. Thanks for posting.

Great shot, and it's nice of her to use the same plant before and after feeding!

I missed that on your first post. A little searching came up with "Maximum combined attachment file size is 20MB. That's the total limit for all images attached to a single post."

That's from the Photo Gallery, Pictures -- section rules -- last updated May 21, 2016

http://www.uglyhedgehog.com/t-426-1.html

If that doesn't work, maybe contact admin. Good luck, I'm looking forward to seeing your picture!

I have no idea how to help you with the photo stitching, however your attached jpeg of the cathedral isn't attached to your post.

http://www.uglyhedgehog.com/help/how_to_post_a_picture.jsp

Yes, you can see Chrysler on the front of the in the download, as well as the driver's silhouette or ghost.

Thanks for sharing them. I think the 3rd Panda is pretending to be a tough guy, which must be hard for a big Teddy Bear.

Probably on all of them with the Lock Switch. My D5300 doesn't have it.

That's sad, and this makes it even sadder: "Two juveniles have been charged with aggravated arson in connection with the wildfires that ravaged two East Tennessee resort towns last week, killing 14 people and leaving nearly 150 others injured and damaging or destroying more than 2,400 properties."

So do I, thanks for posting the tip.