Nice shot and good news, Jay Pat.

Check the Rick Steves website.

This is a great resource for your question:

https://fireaviation.com/2021/02/20/have-you-ever-wondered-where-the-water-tank-is-on-an-air-tractor-802f-fire-boss/

As best I can tell, you’re in a northern suburb of Milwaukee. I did a Google search for photo labs and came up with this result:

B & L Photo Lab. 4.4 mi. 5.0 (2 reviews) ...
Art's Cameras Plus. 7.4 mi. 3.7 (55 reviews) ...
Express Photo Lab. 4.5 mi. 9026 W National Ave, Milwaukee, WI 53227. ...
VIP Pro Lab & Video, Inc. 71.9 mi. 4.5 (11 reviews) ...
Portraits Now. 34.4 mi.

And the link for this is here:

https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=custom+photo+labs+milwaukee+wisconsin

I’d lean toward getting in touch with one of these because my preference is to work locally. For example, for me in Victoria, where our local custom lab recently closed due to the owner’s retirement, I’d consider labs in Houston — two hours north of me — as “local” for custom work.

Best of luck.

Welcome from Victoria.

Wife, who is a master naturalist, says this is probably a Black Skimmer (Rynchops niger). Could be a juvenile, but the lighting makes it hard to tell.

https://www.audubon.org/field-guide/bird/black-skimmer

I've been waiting to see if someone would come up with this. It was my first thought. We could also have found out if she was a real blonde -- which is, by the way -- the rarest hair color in Texas.

Don't let the prudes run you -- and us -- off.

I had the same problem with the Canon Powershot G15. It can be repaired. And I liked the camera so much that I now have two. I used
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Shotcut is a free video editing app. It's pretty easy to use.

https://www.shotcut.org/

It's called splooting and NPR had a story on it. Nice catch:

https://www.npr.org/2023/06/28/1184894507/under-extreme-heat-squirrels-sploot

How disappointing and sad to see some of you respond with this kind of post. Neither Alan nor I were raining on Ken’s parade. In fact, we were being supportive and offering information to him (and to people like you, Bill_de, who obviously need it) — information that would help protect his rights as a photographer. That “legal BS” also would protect your rights, Bill_de, and those who agreed with you.

You know, UHH is supposed to be a place where we help one another by sharing and trading knowledge. I just “don’t get it” why doing so was so offensive.

John and others,

I don’t mean to be contentious here, but for the newspaper to credit the photo properly, which OP wrote that it did, someone in the newsroom had to know who shot it. And thus, that’s a straight-line phone call from the newsroom to the supplier of the photo (I assume a file) to Ken (OP) for permission — and on that we agree.

As for payment, the class act would have been for the newspaper to offer Ken money. An a prior contract in this case is irrelevant because the use of the photo was a surprise. As I said, Ken wouldn’t have been out of line to ask for money.

The Amarillo Independent’s (my newspaper) two photogs were veteran shooters who worked with me as friends/colleagues with a verbal agreement on each assignment. We were a small, upstart weekly operation and the whole group of us shared the mission we had for the Indy. It was the best seven years of my 22-year journalism career.

Wait a minute. How did they get your photo? Did they use it without permission? Did they pay you for it?

As a retired journalist (I owned and ran a newspaper in addition to having been a reporter), at a minimum, the editor should have asked your permission. And, by all rights, you would not have been out of line to ask for a payment at their standard free-lance rates.

What the article didn’t say was that these improvements can’t happen until Geordi can calibrate the dilithium crystals into the proper mold. And because Scotty is no longer with us, it’s gong to take a while to decode the subliminal Kaylon matrix. Also, compensating the graviton subspace atmosphere with the temporal subspace frame and optical combadge will take time.

Then, there’s the problem with the quantum drive shaping the lenses, confusing the engineering staff because they couldn’t differentiate between the warp core, warp drive and warped lenses.

Your mileage may vary.