Moosehead Lake if you want to see moose.

As others have mentioned there are many coastal locations with serious damage from the past winter storms. So call ahead. In two weeks from Portland you can easily make it to Lubec and back with so many beautiful towns and Islands to visit. The Acadia crowds are a pain but get up early and deal with it, no point missing Acadia.
Take the ferry in Portland to visit the Casco Bay islands, Great Chebeague and its inn are my favorite by land.
Harpswell, Five Islands, around Boothbay both to the east and west, Port Clyde and the ferry to Monhegan Island, a boat trip to Eastern Egg Rock for Puffin viewing, Rockport, Rockland and Camden, take the ferry to North Haven/Vinyl Haven in the middle of Penobscot Bay, if you’re adventurous hire a ride in a charter trip out to Metinicus Island. Don’t miss Castine, Deer Island, the Mt. Desert (Acadia) and the Schoodic Peninsula. Beyond Schoodic is considered “Downeast”. Stop in Jonesport and hire a boat ride out to Roque Island. Carry on to Lubec and the Roosevelt compound on Campbello.
Don’t spend too much of your time in the tourist filled towns of Boothbay, Camden, Bar Harbor etc. Get out of the pack whenever and wherever, you won’t regret it.

We traveled to South Africa in the fall of ‘22. Our first stop was a 3 day Safari on a private reserve adjacent Kruger National Park. There are many of these preserves adjacent Kruger and with no fences the animals wander around freely. All the Safari camps seem to use 9 person custom Toyota Land Cruisers, 3 rows of 3. Twice daily trips with a morning trip at 5:30 am that lasts 3-4 hours and an evening trip of similar duration starting at 4. In three days we saw an immense variety of game, all the so called big five; rhino, elephant, leopard, lion and water Buffalo. Plus hippo, wild dog, giraffe, 4-5 varieties of antelope, hyena, zebra and more. We stayed at Tangala Safari camp, I recommend it highly if you go. We traveled the south coast along the “Garden Route” with seals, ostrich, the famous penguin colony at Boulders Beach.
I rented a Nikon S 100-400 for the trip and it worked out quite well. There were times I needed a 600 lens. If you’re a Nikon shooter you might consider the 400 with the internal flip down 2x tele converter.
SÁ is one of many fine locations for wildlife. Also consider looking into Botswana, Kenya, and Namibia. We met people who spoke very highly of all of them.

Great photo Photographing the Fire fall is on my bucket list!

Great shot! I didn’t think Yellowstone ever closed?

Richard sure knows how to live well!

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I’ll take the Canon shot. Nicely done.

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Add a VPN to your quiver and you’ll be able to avoid the blackouts all season long. My local team (Red Sox) won’t be in contention for anything except last place so I won’t be subscribing to MLB this season or probably any season until ownership sees value in competing to win. Go Angels!

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I use lens correction most often to straighten up convergent lines in architectural photos. It’s called vertical and horizontal parallax. It works remarkably well as long as you leave sufficient space around the image when you take the photo. Another common lenses problem is barrel distortion but it’s not a common problem in my photos.
Most full feature editing software have tools for all these corrections

It’s just a standard residential clothes dryer outlet. I think my electrician charged $200 to wire it to my garage panel.

The reason the Texas grid failed in the winter of 2021 was due to the fact that Texas refuses to connect to the rest of the country’s grid. Rugged independent minded and sometimes foolish. But that’s Texas.

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