Blue Mountains.

I use the flashing drone version on my Mavic mini and it is a godsend in seeing the location of the drone in poor or fading light - highly recommend the cube for that purpose.

Your welcome edelberman - just thought I should mention that apart from movies, I have my entire photo collection (both RAW and jpg) on one NAS, backed up weekly to a second NAS. I use both Lightroom and Luminar 4.0 to access and edit those files and the Synology NAS work (mostly) fine for that purpose - so when you sort out your .pat issue, Synology do seem a good choice for very large image storage.
Have used them for about 10 years now - the only other issue to watch is one or more hard drives in the NAS just starting to fail with age - experience has taught me that when you start to get bad sector warnings, do not hesitate to progressively replace the drives - that is the only other issue I have had with them - cheers Andrew

I had exactly this issue when I upgraded to Synology DSM 7.0 (the latest).
Your folder will appear as usual in the list of folders in /Control Panel/Shared Folder but unhappily it will have "disappeared" and be inaccessible in both /File Manager on the Synology and in Finder (and in Lightroom) on your mac.
My dissapeared folder held 8TB of movies on my Synology, so I was a bit fussed.
Synology have a pretty good customer service ticket system and they fixed it simply - its normally just a permissions issue on the folder that has gone missing after the DSM upgrade. In my case I just needed to call up the missing folder in Control Panel /Shared Folders, call up Edit, and tick Read/Write permissions for BOTH Preview and Group Permissions for the Admin user login.
If that does not work create or login into your Synology user account (free, on their website) create a ticket and ask them to remotely log into your Synology drive (they will explain how you need to permit that to happen) and they will fix the settings for you.
As an aside DSM 7.0 is definitely worth upgrading to - the 2 factor login and the new Synology Photos app (which is like a free cloud service for the photos you want to display on your phone as an alternative to Apply iCloud Photos) are both really good and worth having.
Hope this works for you - Andrew

Especially liked the way you composed the third image contrasting light and dark on the diagonals and the landforms accentuated in the middle - really captured your subject well.

Must get out there myself soonish - wildflowers with the rain?

Liked your capture a lot - reminds me that I have a date with a desert here as well - want to tell the long history of failed marginal farming here.
Also liked the location information - Google maps has you off the North Bush Highway, a bit to the west of Tortilla Flat and just past the Maricopa County Sheriff's office ... good to know about more of the world!

I love this shot - the combined angry sky with the gloomy landscape - would make a good book jacket photo for a suitably Gothic tale - maybe something like "Rebecca" set in the UK?

Keep those images coming - best, Andrew






Keep up the great images - Andrew

The GOR is the world's longest war memorial at 150 miles on the southern most ocean coast of mainland Australia - originally constructed by WW1 returned soldiers as a Depression era work creation scheme.

A long but good drive from Melbourne, the sea and the land are in an ongoing battle, where the sea first creates a cave and then enlarges that to create a cut off headland, locally called an "apostle". These images are of the bit of the road called "the ship wreck coast" - when sailing ships did not have much of a keel or the ability to point into the wind, they would frequently get blown onto the coast after having travelled all but 3 hours from London or New York to Melbourne. The prevailing southerly winds can be fierce and blow up from the Antarctic.

There are many walking sites, easily accessed from car parks, dedicated to the lives lost in those ship wrecks.
More history here - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Ocean_Road

Typical headlands, before they become apostles

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A couple of typical apostles

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Caves that will eventually undermine the headland above

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Cave has now cut through the headland forming a "London Bridge" which will eventually collapse

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The land behind the coast is typically vegetate by low scrub in deference to the prevailing salt laden southerly winds

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Occasionally there will be steps down to beaches, giving a scale to the height of the headlands above

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Most mac users will (by default) use the apple app Preview to open pdf files - but I find to my surprise it includes (at least from Catalina 10.15.6 which is what I use) that there is a photo editor that has some very useful slider type controls that will quickly edit and mark up jpg files.

Quick version - open a jpg in Preview, click on Markup in the first menu ribbon and then click on the "prism with light passing through it" in the second ribbon that opens a box of tools that lets you adjust exposure, contrast, saturation and sharpness and other things, to a degree I found surprising in a jpg - also edits images from iPhones much more easily than on the phone. Worth a try if you need a quick edit, and do not need the power and complexity of a full RAW editor.

Reason for discovery - need some branches lopped from eucalyptus trees here that have a nasty habit of falling near people and cars - we like the rest of the tree, just want our guy to remove the dangerous branches. Knew that Preview has a quick and simple editing ribbon, so shot some quick jpgs to send to him and just wanted to mark up the 3 branches we needed gone - sample below, which will not seriously trouble the judges in any photo competition, but which do show what is needed. Thought the exposure and contrast in the as shot image was a bit ordinary, clicked on the prism icon just to see what it was, and found a pretty good and simple editor.

Apologies if this is already well known to you all, but it helped me and there maybe others out there that would like to try some simple edits before committing to one of the more expensive and complicated editors. If you shoot only in RAW, you will need either to convert to jpg before editing or use a RAW editor.

best, Andrew

Marked up jpg using Preview

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Your images reminded me of the British police procedural series also called Shetland, set mostly in Lerwick.
Some of the landscape video shots from the series still stick in my mind - your images evoke those memories.
Here is a link to the local and free replay of the most recent (and final) 6th series - https://iview.abc.net.au/show/shetland/series/5/video/ZW2172A006S00
The series may interest you - best, Andrew

I am liking the first image a whole lot - the way it takes you down the road, and perhaps on forever...

It's a bad habit of mine to wonder about what I would do with an image in post - would you contemplate lightening the exposure of the vegetation in the foreground just a tad? - forgive me if that is an unwelcome intrusion. Best, Andrew

I love shots that bring back memories of past travels - we did the inside passage a few year back from Juneau to Seattle on a line called "Un-Cruise" - they made up their itinerary from day to day and seemed to spend as much time docked as under steam. Walked a lot off the boat into islands and shorelines like the one you captured.
Your image blends the best of the land with the sea and is a great (and difficult) capture - I hope it beings you joy and memories for a long time of what may well have been a great day - thanks for sharing - Andrew

Memories of all those yellow boxes of photographic paper stacked in my dad's darkroom years ago come flooding back ...

If you want a quick lesson in how companies can, and others can't (eg Kodak, sadly) adapt to changing circumstances this video is a cracker from Tony and Chelsea -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWbe_bLqcpQ&t=4s

Fascinating how Fujifilm bet their company on a total corporate transformation and survived and prospered, while Kodak (the way bigger world wide player) guessed wrong and died.

Even more fascinating is how Fuji translated the know how and quality of their film images into their extraordinary jpeg's in their current X series cameras. Thanks for a great well researched story Chelsea and Tony!

Interesting capture, taken perhaps from the perspective of road kill ....

The fourth image (of the hare) is a cracker - the detail in the fur and the very precise depth of field with the surrounding vegetation is a brilliant technical success - well done!