I have enjoyed this picture for as long as I can remember. It hung in my parents house my whole life and my Mom left it to me and it now hangs in our living room. I find it a very pleasing composition. Pictured are my Great Grandmother, and two daughters, the one in the middle being my maternal Grandmother.
I opened the back of the frame to copy it for my siblings ( all 8 of them! ) and found a letter from the editor of Photo Era Magazine requesting permission to print it.
A little library and Google work and I found a copy of the Nov 1923 issue containing this surprise.

Took a little ATV ride and then hike yesterday.
The Wheeler Geologic Area is a highly eroded outcropping of layers of volcanic ash, in the La Garita Mountains of Mineral County, in southern Colorado in the western United States about 10 miles east north-east of Creede. The ash is the result of eruptions from the La Garita Caldera approximately 25 million years ago.
These formations are also called Hoodos. Unfortunately many of our pine trees have died in the past 10 years due to pine beetle. The colors over here are just starting to change. It will be a week or 2 before they are in full swing!

So it's been years since I have been on this site and honestly many years since I have really got to do what I have always loved "Photography". Taking care of my parents, uncles, friends and their families and just helping others out I put everything I loved to do on hold. Now I am taking time for me because the psychical and mental stress I have endured over the years really isn't healthy but I don't regret it either. I am trying to get back to where I once was and that was just enjoying the visuals life has to offer and capture those moments. I can't say I have one specific subject as I have always been an all around photographer, when I was shooting that is. But overall I enjoy landscapes, wildlife "Birds", macro, indoor and outdoor portraits and sporting events which I hope to get back to as well.

The last or most recent camera I own besides my android is a *cough* Canon EOS 60D *cough* Now its still a good camera and so isn't my "hey look up there!" Canon EOS 40D... "oh you missed it." But a little outdated and I will agree the gear doesn't make the photographer although good lenses can sure help. "Is the L series lenses calling me a loser?"

So I need help in finding a new camera and I prefer to stay with Canon because of the lenses I have acquired when I was getting into it at the time. One thing is I kind of want to get a Full Frame camera because I have never owned one and I have always got crop factor cameras which with a telephoto lens in wildlife is a bonus.

So I have been looking at these cameras and reading up and watching videos on them and if you can help give me better suggestions I am all ears. Ones I have been looking at are and in this order in what I though about getting.

1. Canon EOS R6 Mark II
2. Canon EOS R8
3. Canon EOS RP
4. Canon DSLR 5D Mark IV
5. Canon DSLR 6D Mark II

The last two are much older cameras. I think they still have some value but will become outdated years down the road. I would put the R6 up there but the price comparison to the R6 Mark II to is not much difference. I also wouldn't mind having good video but don't plan to record movies just maybe tidbits of family get together with things like Birthdays, 4th of July, and Christmas or small event's like that.

So any advice or suggestions or if you own one of the cameras mentioned if you have likes or dislikes about any of them please let me know and if you have other canon camera suggestions I am all ears.
Now if you lucky I'll post some horrible blinding photos I have took with my android during all those years of Real camera absence. Unless you fell that is a punishment then I won't. To Everyone "Have a wonderful day."