Love it! I was 37. Oh, those bell bottoms!
#1. I find the branch and leaves (dead?) distracting.
My walkabout lens is a Tamron 16-300mm f/3.5-6.3 on a Nikon D5500 (cropped sensor) camera. It takes care of 99% of my images (I have a wider-angle Nikon) and I recommend it. IIRC, it is discontinued and therefore be available at a good price.
Thanks for the fine images of the jazz I love!
A beautiful place and one of my favorite places to hike. Here is a pic when there was water flowing over the waterwheel.
The first image. I like seeing the boat.
I like the second composition best, by far.
I love my Tamron 16-300mm lens on my Nikon D5500 crop-sensor camera. I see on the Tamron website that it is discontinued, so used versions may be available at a good price. Here's the info from the Tamron site:
https://www.tamron.com/global/consumer/lenses/b016/
I use Aurora HDR as a Photoshop plugin on all of my landscape photos. The results are amazing. I have Luminar Neo but have not purchased any of the extensions. The few times I have tried Neo the results have not appealed to me. Maybe I need to use it more.
I shot RAW and auto most of the time, sometimes aperture priority if auto doesn't give me enough depth of field. Very rarely I shoot shutter priority to stop action.