Fair enough, but I didn't initiate the topic.

I agree that one monitor is enough unless you are a very demanding high-end photographer. Even then, I am not sure I see a real benefit (no pun intended:). I have seen a number of comments advising not to use sGRB, but rather Adobe RGB, both in shooting and then in post-processing. This pre-supposes wanting the most accurate color rendition of prints. If you are just sending photos over the internet or for casual use, sRGB is okay. I use Adobe RGB at all times and the results please me, and my lab.

Sadly, I have watched this for the last decade. Watching their programs on tv, I enjoy the beautiful videography, and have to tune out the politically correct line they peddle. The cyclic nature of global climate is witnessed by the fact that in the thirteenth or fourteenth century, a Chinese admiral transnavigated the Northwest Passage and journeyed from the Pacific to Atlantic Oceans. At that time, grain crops like wheat and barley were grown in Lapland. Then came the Little Ice Age and a long period of cooling that lasted for about three-to-four hundred years. As late as the late 1700s there what were described as "summer with no summer". Crop failures were frequent and some have posited that the last vestiges of this Little Ice Age were responsible for the Irish potato blight and the consequent starvation and immigration from Ireland and some parts of Scotland. But these contemporarily recorded facts are inconvenient for the current narrative. You are right on!

Dr. Bob: I bought a used D7100 in late 2018. It had fewer than 10K shutter activations and came with a battery pack/vertical grip, two batteries and some other small but useful items. It cost me $620 and I love the camera.I can understand why you are so happy having acquired that camera from your brother.

I think my first reply vanished into the Internet graveyard. I really like your photos. One of them reminded me of a shot I took three years ago. It is a cataract on Avalanche Creek in Glacier National Park. The creek flows out of Avalanche Lake and into Lake MacDonald. It is a wonderful hike and well worth it, if you ever visit Glacier.

Fine and very interesting shots. Where was the second photograph taken?

I am in much the same position you are in. Also being over 70, I didn't leave the world of film photography until 2012. Digital has helped me have instant feedback, on camera, on a photograph and this has make it a real learning experience. As such it has been a great teaching tool and a source of much enjoyment. Like you, I have found Luminar to be the best post-processing program for me. This is not to say that a number of other programs are not excellent and very productive for their users. To each his/her own.

Dave0: Great ideas: I will check them out! I like to stay in Cooke City and there is a Mexican restaurant in town that has the greatest breakfast burritos I have ever had. The northeast area also offers a trip up US 212 to Beartooth Pass and some very interesting country. Thanks for the suggestions!!

DaveO:
I am working hard at it. The folks from Japan and Korea are the ones who push back the date that YNP used to clear up. I will go, but may even enter from Sylvan Pass or the Northeast Entrance and stay in the northeast area.

I fully agree about the changed nature of YNP. I moved to Idaho in 1999 and have been in the park almost yearly. Busses disgorging hoards of chattering tourists, careless visitors walking into traffic and clogging walkways was enough to make me vow I would only visit after school started. But a lot of the tourists, and the most obnoxious ones at that, are now showing up at times that used to be slower and more comfortable. Some tourists make it discouraging, at times. In late December of 2017, friends and I were enjoying the very different Yellowstone that is winter. In the visitor center, I was waiting on them and looked out a window to see a tourist walking past the warning signs and right up to the vent of Old Faithful. I alerted a ranger who called down a patrol and they nabbed him. Rangers told me that the tourists are getting more and more liable to ignore warning signs and do things that endanger some of the wonderful features, disturb the wildlife and also break the toilet seats in the restrooms. Back some years they put a limit on the number of visitors in Yosemite. I don't know if it worked, but sometimes YNP makes me wish they would put a limit on the tour busses and their contents. I will go back, but explore just the places you mention, having found them to be less crowded and more congenial for quiet observation and photography.

DavidO;
I really enjoy your photos!! They are furthering my interest in another trip to YNP. Living rather close, it has been my joy to visit often: I think this September is a target date. Not having a big telephoto, I am a bit happened in wildlife shote, but am making some decent progress. So, I am anxious to get up there and have another go at it. Thank you for prodding me to do something that has been on my mind. Any suggestions as to locales, etc., would be welcome. VERY NICE WORK!!!

The last sentence of your first paragraph might be a reflection of the person who wrote it.

I am heartily sick and tired of this thread!! It has degenerated into a string of ad hominem attacks and has become a personal battle instead of a civil discussion of a worthwhile topic, the nature of artistic license versus artistic truthfulness. Can we move on?

I have had excellent results with McKennapro and recommend them highly. They have a large variety of options and services, including color checks, ,as well as offering frame and mounting service. I have had them print both regular photographic paper and metallic prints. Prices are quite reasonable and shipping is prompt and the prints are well packaged for safety. It would be well worth your time to look at their site, McKennapro.com.

Marturo: I am really glad for you that you have found success with layers!D Let me know how it progresses. You can reach me privately at adamsgc@yahoo.com and we can share experiences of older fellows who shot film and are learning new things. My photographic project that is not digital or digitizing my good film shots is digitizing old photographic prints of pictures taken by my mother's family in pre-World War I China. they are deteriorating and I want to save them for my daughter, and for myself.