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Your Mom

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  1. Anything specific you'd recommend me checking into in the same price range? Say $1200ish or less and the same or less for a lens appropriate for big landscapes and night skies?
  2. Rookie here. Talk me into or out of buying this camera: Nikon D810. Used. Excellent condition. $1200 Nikon 14-24 f/2.8 lens. Also used in excellent condition. $1200 Both are from Precision Camera in Austin. Reputable shop as far as I am aware. Both pieces have been inspected and are warrantied. I want to take landscape photos. Mountains, sunrises, night sky, Milky Way, rivers, etc... I'm tired of going to amazing places and coming back with iphone and GoPro pics that don't do it justice. Not too interested in portraits or sports. I'm a complete rookie and have never owned a nice camera. I'll need to take some classes and I don't mind the learning curve. The D850 is out of my budget and not an option. I became interested in the D810 based on interweb searches, articles, etc.. and it was confirmed to be a solid choice by the guy at Precision Photo. I have the money, but if I could buy something that would be almost as good for half the price I'd rather do that. One thing that I keep coming back too is the fact that there weren't cameras this great just a few years ago and yet people were taking amazing photos anyway. How much dropoff in quality would there be if I bought a lower tier camera, say $600-$700 range? What else should I be looking at? This will be a camera I'd like to own for a decade, use on 3 or 4 trips a year, and pass on to one of my teenage sons later on as he learns more about photography. It will never be my biggest hobby but I'd like to get decent at taking great pics of the places I go.
  3. Nah that's just the rocky area we camped in. Big Bend Ranch State Park, near Mota Mountain.
  4. The bucket shitter is legit. I take this rig camping. The Reliance Double Doodie bags combine bio gel and a double bag fit for a 5 gallon bucket. A fresh bag for every dump, double bagged, no spills, no smell, and toss it in the first trash can you find on your way back to civilization. Add in some wet wipes and it’s a very pleasant means of busting a grumpy in the wilderness.
  5. I could. But I think we’re both arguing two different points and I’m not sure we even really disagree with each other other than I really don’t like living in Texas anymore and you do. if I lived in Colorado, Idaho, Utah, Wyoming, etc. I think I would enjoy living there whether or not my family was around. I can’t say the same for Texas anymore. Doesn’t mean I don’t love Texas or that I’m not a proud Texan and proud of our history and heritage. I’ve just had enough of it. Moving to any of the other cities in Texas would not change that.
  6. It applies to other states for sure, but not to the places I’d consider great. To me great places are great on their own merits, not just for family reasons. I took his post about the “stickiness” of Texas to mean he thought of that as an indicator of how great it must be. I’m providing a counterpoint that lots of us are in Texas despite it not being where we’d like to live rather than because there’s something great about it. Me living here doesn’t mean I think it’s all that great in general (although I did list Terlingua for a little bit of Texan homerism).
  7. I don't think that's necessarily because it's such a great place. People get attached to their roots. People move for jobs or because the in-laws are somewhere else, or whatever. I live here because my family is here. I ventured out of Texas when I was a young man but came back when it was time to start a family and being near parents and siblings became important again. I'll probably leave again when my kids begin their adult lives. There's a dozen other states I'd rather live in if family wasn't a factor.
  8. I clicked on this thread expecting some great story about Matthew Stafford and instead got some rambling about high school glory days that culminated with "Stafford ran past me a few times and handed the ball off in one of our games." WTF is up with the melodramatic thread title?
  9. I look at every post that names like 10-15 movies and realize I've seen only 2 or 3 of them. You guys just like movies a lot more than me. But Jojo Rabbit is a great fucking movie.
  10. I think GoPro 5 was the first to include internal stabilization and then the 7 improved on it significantly.
  11. Kailua is pretty meh. Maybe Haleiwa instead?
  12. It still pisses me off when USC fans don't get called out on the 3-peat references. LSU won the 2003 championship. They have the trophy. AP votes count for shit. Granted, OU should've never played in that game, it should have been LSU vs USC. But it wasn't so fuck off with your claimed 2003 championship. Aggiest shit ever.
  13. Durango Terlingua Moab Boise Salida
  14. I don’t really like you right now.
  15. I think he meant you’ll enjoy the pool after your wife moves out.
  16. Nah, I offered him the 2 tickets and he could give the second one to anyone else. He's mobile, has a truck and a job, doesn't need much from me. He definitely went through the typical teenage years of wanting nothing to do with mom and dad, but things have trended the other direction the last year or so.
  17. Still slow going on mine too. I have tile in and still a bare concrete pool and deck. Waiting on the equipment to get hooked up, plaster, Sun Dek coating.
  18. Lumineers in Austin at Moody presale tickets started today. My 17 year old and I were supposed to see Colter Wall at Gruene Hall but he cancelled all shows for covid. Lumineers at Moody was the back up plan. Got two tickets just now. The fact the my kid wants to hang with me some will keep me smiling all day today.
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  20. I have no idea what could work it’s way under your keys and cause them to stick and fail. None whatsoever.
  21. The bridge don’t lie.
  22. Maybe it was a Shawn White reference.
  23. You’re not flying in business class. You bought a ticket with “business select”. Two very different things. You’ll sit with the rest of the unwashed masses and you’ll like it. Only difference is you’ll board a little bit before most of them. Your only other perk will be a free drink. Really the best you can hope for is a seat on the right side of the aircraft for a nice view of the Grand Canyon on the way in. Or the left side if you prefer seeing Hoover Dam.
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