Is this a permanent exhibit?

I absolutely like the following quote, "If Photoshop is the answer, you are asking the wrong question!" That being said, when I went mirrorless, from a d7100 and d850, I had two sets of lenses, older Nikkor manual focus primes from my film days and Nikkor 24-70 and 70-200 f/2.8s which I used on both the d7100 and d850. Got a deal I could not pass up from Nikon and took a Z8 to Alaska; the Z8 had maybe 100 shots on it before it went along with the d850. I chose to get the adapter and am very pleased with the images. I can still use all my lenses on both the d850 and Z8. Right now I have no ambition to upgrade to Z mount glass; at 100% for pixel peeping, the results speak for themselves and I have enlarged some of the Alaska trip pics to 40" wide. You have plenty of lenses, have fun with what you have on the Z8 before throwing more money at the situation.

A good photo for his passport.

I do have a habit of flipping some of my better images from any Nikon outing, flipping between color and monochrome; sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't.

It's a toss up for me. I do agree with the idea of cropping out some sky above the clouds? I would have recomposed the shot and gotten more mountain in it, more mountain in the foreground. October 2014, my first visit to Crater Lake Nat Pk, was there the morning after the first major snowfall of the season. The view from the rim was amazing. Absolutely pristine! Not a track visible in the snow. However, the vistas had large areas of snow with no detail. I flipped back and forth between color and monochrome; the images were good; not eye popping wall hangers. Part of the challenge with all that snow, again, no detail; just a lot of blah white.

I have a nice blend of old and new, both with regard to photography gear and fishing gear. Yes, it's the violinist, not the violin, although it helps to have good gear.

GAS, we know what it means here at UHH. I am employed part time at a major outdoor retailer and I observe a slightly different iteration where I work. Every day customers come in thinking that a new fishing rod and/or new fishing reel will transform them into world class fishers. A new bait is seen on a TV show; it is made out to be the latest/greatest sure fire fish getter yet; when it is not in the store's on hand inventory when they are there, they grump about it and storm off. The store I work at has over 100 feet of linear floor space just crammed with who knows how many baits and lures and hooks and rods and reels, yet this is never quite enough. To this I add...IF there is ever a focused ecological effort to cut way back on plastics overall for the sake of the health of our planet, fishing will be impacted. Most all baits, both hard and soft, are made of plastics of some sort.
GAS in fishing has its onset at a very young age, and I blame that partly on competitive fishing where junior high and high school aged kids insist on having THE BEST to compete regardless how much the tackle costs; and parents and grandparents shell out mega bucks to their kids and grandkids. When will it stop???
GAS is not exclusive to photography!!!

I can appreciate your images. I went to Alaska with an old friend last autumn; first time for either of us going there. Spent a week and came home thinking: there is NOTHING in the lower 48 that compares to Alaska!!! We saw Denali in all its glory starting from about 100 miles away. The icing on the cake, an adult grizzly knee deep in blueberries in Denali; the bear was around 135 yards away. The other feeling about Alaska...Please keep it wild, forever!!! That is the beauty of the place. 1700 miles plus on our rental, a Toyota 4 Runner. We cruised Prince William Sound one day and Resurrection Bay/Kenai Fjords N P another. My friend and I have talked about a return trip. I am forever thankful for Blacks2 and his posts when he visited Alaska; he encouraged me to go and to go in September. He was spot on!!!

I used to think a cell phone was only for making calls until I got my Samsung S22+ which has bailed me out on more than a few photo op situations. Left my D850 on the floor in the back seat of my rental vehicle last time I visited the Grand Canyon; got the keeper of that trip later with my cell phone; the sun had just set below the western horizon at Desert View and made for a really nice photo. Whether I have my D850 or Z8 with, I always have my cell phone handy as well. Better something than no camera at all.

I have disabled the touch screen option on both my D850 and Z8!!!

All the Nikon DSLRs I owned, they all had that focus lock feature; because the Z6 II did not have that feature, I decided not to get one, I got a Z8 instead and it has that feature.
I see no IQ difference between images from my D850 and Z8, sometimes I take both with different lenses mounted and ready to go.
I tried using the focus peaking feature for manual focus on both the D850 and Z8, I prefer the other manual focus feature on the D850 over focus peaking, I find it quicker and more accurate for my purposes especially with Nikkor legacy glass as in old manual focus primes from film days.
Battery life can be a challenge with the Z8; typically I only turn it on when I want to get the shot. The D850, I can walk around a while and not be concerned about its battery. I have yet to attempt an in camera time lapse with the Z8; I have done a few with the D850 and with a near full charged battery can have the camera on and working for about 5 hours or longer.

This place sparkles on a sunny day because of the composition of its exterior, and it was planned that way. I would like to have watched them building this place as I believe it is one of the first structures to use pre cast sections on its exterior.

These images are as shot, no post processing. The roof line appears to be level while the bottom of the stairs are not. I have a similar image taken with my Z8; most everything in the Z image is square and true and parallel. Perhaps at the moment I got this image there was a ripple in the space/time continuum? On the other side of the building is a sculpture showing space/time being warped.
I was inside this place several years ago; it closed soon after; it has since reopened to the public perhaps a year ago??? Have yet to get a look through their telescope.

Located in Williams Bay, WI, this observatory was constructed between 1895 and 1897...

CBG in the Springtime...