Beautiful! I grew up at 35 West 90th St.; you must be fairly close to that building.

He took "Terror of War." Look it up.

https://www.ap.org/press-releases/2020/ap-photographer-nick-ut-receives-national-medal-of-arts

#2 is in focus, at least the books and the can next to them are. The others are a bit off. Otherwise I can't see the difference.

Winter holly:

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Bienvenue dans le coin!

In the spirit of critique:
1) The colors and composition in the horizontal format are great. Unfortunately the shot isn't very sharp.
2) This HDR was wildly successful. It looks like you're using some crazy polarizing filter or IR film, but the total effect is great.
3) My favorite. The composition and colors are perfect. The exposure is *maybe* a little dark, but it really contributes to a late-afternoon atmosphere.
4) Underexposed. I think there's too much going on between the sky, trees and corn; it would work better to choose one of those e.g., get up really close to the corn with your wide angle, or zoom in to the distant trees.
5) Cool B&W. The placement of the fence is right on.
6)Colors are nice, if a tad underexposed. In terms of composition, it misses the mark a bit for me. I think you could have gotten closer to the red tree in the foreground, emphasizing its colors and also filling up the frame with the tall tree behind it.
7 & 8) Really did not like the HDR effect here. It hasn't done anything for the photos other than give the sky an incongruous color.
9) This turned out very nicely, but I don't know what HDR is bringing to the party. It would be interesting to see what happens to the sky in a non-HDR shot if you keep the exposure of the barn and field as it is.
10) Great composition and exposure. Did you use auto white-balance by any chance? Seems to me that the clouds could have had more of a reddish tone at that time of day.

I would have been happy to have taken any of 'em!

Over here, a "médiocre" D750 is 445 € at mpb.com, a very reputable company. It's not going to be pretty, but at that price, who cares? Dollar equivalent must be about the same in the U.S.

Uh, even the OP couldn't avoid mentioning the zoom lenses he carries in his prime lens kit...

I didn't specify "better," merely using it in whatever sense the OP meant for results that were pleasing to him. I suppose it's not really a question in his mind, but since he mentions several lens that I know are excellent and sometimes carries all of them, that did reinforce the question in mine.

I own some of these lenses, or older versions of them, and I confirm that they are excellent in the context of both APS-C and full frame. the 180mm 2.8 is a classic; I've taken some of my most memorable photos with it. But that 28-105 there... that's displaced my 50mm 1.8, currently sitting on the shelf. Do you really find that the primes are so much better that you wouldn't walk around with just the 10-20, 28-105, and 180?

I think that's brilliant sarcasm...

I couldn't read the NY Daily News article in Europe, so instead had to read the report on it on the PetaPixel site. I'm not surprised by the reaction here, and as an American citizen and native New Yorker I basically agree. But as a French citizen, this line jumped out at me: "any act of photographing someone in a degrading, violative way without her consent in public is wrong." Now, the author goes off the deep end of feminist rhetoric after that, but think hard; do you really disagree with that statement? In our (French) Constitution we have language based on the "Rights of Men and Citizens" document from the French Revolution which protect private life and the dignity of individuals, even in public. I don't think that's a bad thing, even it constrains my street photography. We also have a strong right to self-expression, so things tend to balance out.

Thanks all! Unfortunately she's not my model; she was posing for her husband or bf, but I think I got the best shot!

Collioure, France, with some waves from a passing storm:

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Especially with the cropping possibilities of the D850. I recently took only the D800 and a 50mm to Paris for two days due to space constraints on the train. Compact, not super heavy, happily cropped away in postprocessing. It would have been nice to have a zoom to get this shot, but I'm satisfied with the result.

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