I mailed photos of a recent trip to my friend. I store my photos in iPhoto so I mailed directly from the iPhoto cloud. The quality of the photos was fine in the email but when she tried to save the photos to put in a photo album of the trip, the resolution went bad. So I tried to export the photos to my desk top and send them as an attachment to the email. Instead of the DSC_xxxx the photos had some long name ending in jpg. When my friend tried to save them the IQ was still bad. What am I doing wrong?

I went last year. We took Tauck tours which started in Zambia at Livingstone right next to Victoria Falls, then into Botswana, three different camps including deep into the Okavango, then the Kalahari, and ending in Capetown. Great tour. I highly recommend it. First class, great tour guides, super lodges.

Thank you. I really enjoyed the photos. Looking forward to the trip.

I'm going in about 3 weeks. What kind of lens and settings were you using?

I assume you've going to see Machu Picchu and also Cuzco. We acclimated at a town at a lower altitude than Cuzco before going to Machu Picchu. Expensive to stay at the Sanctuary Lodge right outside is the park but that gives you the best opportunity to see the place. We hired a wonderful personal guide from Lima. You definitely want a zoom lens that gives you wide angle. After Machu Picchu we boarded an Oceania cruise ship and south. Most of the stops in Cile were lousy. Nothing much to see except Valparaiso. Cruise didn't get good until we got into the starts of Magellan and saw the glaciers. Going further south and around the cape there were interesting countries like Montenegro, Ushuaia, and the Falklands Then to Argentna to photograph Iguazu Falls. I think I used the Nikkor 10-24 DX most of the time there. Buenos Aires is a beautiful city and your 24-70 should be just fine.

Beautiful. Are those straight out of the camera or has a little PP been applied?

But if you are going to be there for a couple of months why not check out Bryce Canyon (my favorite) Mt. Zion, Arches and Mesa Verde and Grand Canyon?

I enjoy this lens. Took great shots ar at Machu Picchu but I don't post process and with this lens you need to PP to take care of the barrel distortion. Had that problem at Mount Zion.ù

I enjoy this lens. Took great shots ar at Machu Picchu but I don't post process and with this lens you need to PP to take care of the barrel distortion.m

I' getting a queasy feeling that Steve can do better with a Brownie Hawkeye than I can with my Df. Great shots Steve.

On our safari we were instructed in no uncertain terms not to stand up or make sudden moves when near lions, and other dangerous animals. In a prior safari our guide told us about some guy that suddenly popped up out of his seat to get a shot of a lion. The lion charged the vehicle and it was a good thing the driver was alert and able to get out of the way. If you are on a more expensive safari, they will seat you two abreast and leave the middle seat empty so you have a better chance of shooting animals on both sides. But even then, a monopod would seem to me to be an encumbrance. I decided to lose the monopod, but then, I was shooting only a 70-300, not something as long as yours. Perhaps a short monopod with beanbag anchored on the seat between your legs?

There's a bridge on Congress Ave. in Austin Texas where a huge flock of bats fly out every night. It attracts a fairly large crowd every night.

We (a group of ten from Hawaii) took Tauck Tours. They are also quite pricey but the tour director was top notch, the lodging selections were excellent, and the service excellent. The vehicles we used on game drives limited the passengers in each row to two. I noticed in the cheaper tours all three seats in a row were occupied. Our tour was Zambia (Victoria Falls) Botswana, the Okavango Delta, the Kalahari, Johannesburg, and ended up in Cape Town, South Africa. Our group now plans to take the Tanzania/Kenya tour offered by Tauck in 2017.

I took a full frame Nikon Df, and a D5300 APS-C with the idea of shooting the Df and 24-85 for people and landscapes and the 70-300 on the D5300 for animals. I bought an OpTech dual sling so I had both ready to go. I also had a high quality Vortex binoculars. Within the tour group was a group of ten friends from Hawaii. I found that it was so much hassle to lug two heavy cameras I ended up using the Df with the 70-300 and the binoculars and leaving the D5300 behind. At the end of the trip we found that people like my wife who shot with a Lumix that fitted in her pocket got a lot of the more memorable pictures of the group having fun, eating meals, shooting what we ate, taking shots of the camp accommodations and camp personnel. I missed most of because the only time I took my camera out was on safari

Thanks for the suggestions everybody. Will try it.