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Focus. My Canon system was terrible with focus, no matter what I did or upgrades I invested in...it just was not reliable. My A7R2 is amazing with focus and has made such a difference in my image quality.

Whoah, these are just amazing! The amount of detail and clarity is mind boggling. I also love that you can crop in so much after the fact. I am so tempted by your A7RV!

Thank you! Yes, I grow my own flowers. 🙂 I spent all yesterday digging up my dahlia tubers for next year. I work with an art licensing agent as well as selling fine art prints.

The 600mm is epic and full of drama but I love the 200mm so that I can take in the whole mountain range. Just gorgeous!

Just gorgeous, I hope to visit Iceland one day.

@bmcdonough insect eye autofocus!? That is so very cool! I wish they had a flower eye AF, I would be hooked up. 🙂

Do you have a video posted somewhere that I could listen to the sound quality? I think the audio is what keeps me from filming...and just a lack of a nice space. My basement is quite dungeon like. 🙂

I would love to hear everyone's thoughts on AI for image making and how it will effect the photography industry. I have noticed a lot of ai generated images on IG that are not labeled as ai, sometimes they even use photography hashtags and it makes my eye twitch. 🙂 Now, with Adobe introducing major Ai tech right into Photoshop (as well as Adobe Firefly) it looks like it will be here to stay. I am on the fence with how I feel about it. It is an amazing technology but it could make so many photography careers obsolete.

Art Wolfe was one of mine as well, I still have his books that I bought with my babysitting money in the early 90s.

I love this question! The most inspirational for me were, Art Wolfe, John Shaw and Jim Zuckerman. They are nature photographers that got me hooked on photography back in my middle-school years. My Grandpa was a photographer in the Navy during World War 2 and he was my biggest inspiration and really encouraged me to pick up a camera as a kid. Bill Gekas's earlier portrait work was a big inspiration as well and got me interested in using paintings of the Old masters as my major inspiration.

Yes, it was. I love creating my own light. 🙂 I used a Flashpoint Streaklight 360 with either a APollo Orb or a small diffused beauty dish, I hop between those two modifiers quite a bit.

These are gorgeous!

June was Peony season for me, one of my favorite times of the year. Peonies have a very short time to bloom and I spent hours everyday shooting in order to make the most of it. @bmcdonough the heat was intense yesterday for sure! We had a advisory as well.

If I'm dreaming, I would like to upgrade to the A7RV and I would love a camera just for filming videos like the Sony ZV-E1.

Like @Drew_Geraci, I was with Canon for a decade before switching to Sony. I considered switching for YEARS but I was so invested in Canon gear I just couldn't get myself to do it. In 2019 finally switched to Sony after talking to @CarolineJensen . I only wished I had done it earlier! My focus issues (and they were many) disappeared over night.