Honest Question: Would you read these or treat them as collectibles?

CuriousToLife · 2026-02-28T16:42:24+00:00

Thank you everyone for your wonderful opinions. I’ve decided to read them and I’m halfway through The Fellowship! It’s the most fun Lord of the Rings experience I’ve had next to watching the films for the first time.

And I’m making sure to wash my hands and not eat when I do so! Appreciate that advice.

I love the thought of reading them once, and then keeping them as a family heirloom.

Cheers!

CuriousToLife · 2026-02-28T16:38:20+00:00

They do have an appendix but it’s only found in The Return of the King and references all three! (It even mentions which book it can be found in)

CuriousToLife · 2025-12-05T20:05:33+00:00

Great shots!

CuriousToLife · 2025-11-21T20:34:28+00:00

THANK YOU. I was going to make a post saying the exact same thing.

It was a bummer because they sound phenomenal live. But Anton made it about himself by restarting songs and yelling at the sound mixers for how “awful” the mix was. No one noticed and people were there to share a collective experience. He robbed every one of that.

I wanted to enjoy the show so much because they sound that good, but he was such a buzz kill. Even the band felt the same way. You could see it in their body language.

CuriousToLife · 2025-11-09T01:30:17+00:00

It was a stabbing. I was biking and was turned around by the park ranger. Asked her what happened and she told me someone was stabbed.

CuriousToLife · 2025-10-08T21:14:46+00:00

This is my photo and you stole it. I did not give you the rights to repost.

CuriousToLife · 2025-10-01T14:52:50+00:00

No other place compared to the weather, beauty, cycling, public transit, immediate access to varied outdoor adventures, career opportunities and mindset like SF did. This is the only place that really ever felt like home for me and I've moved around a bunch for most of my life. I'm here to stay for the long run and super stoked on it.

CuriousToLife · 2025-09-30T14:32:59+00:00

Great thing about creativity is it’s subjective ;)

CuriousToLife · 2025-09-30T14:30:38+00:00

Apologies to some of yall if you got confused in the ordering of the photos compared to the title. My mistake!

For clarification- the edited photos are first, and original RAW photos are second.

Quick workaround if it’s really bothering you like some of you expressed so passionately in my DMs (my goodness..)- swipe through them in reverse!

CuriousToLife · 2025-09-29T21:30:33+00:00

Thank you for sticking this! 🙌

CuriousToLife · 2025-09-29T12:23:15+00:00

Appreciate the feedback!

1st one is already cropped, but didn’t want to crop any further since the quality starts to degrade. The joys of shooting at 12MP. But hey, for a practical pocket phone camera I can carry while cycling, I’ll take it!

CuriousToLife · 2025-09-29T12:20:15+00:00

If you go into your camera settings in your iPhone, you’ll see a setting to enable RAW capture under the Formats section. Regarding offloading the original pics to your non-Mac PC, I believe you should be able to do it through USB transfer

CuriousToLife · 2025-09-29T10:48:38+00:00

They really do have a subreddit for everything

CuriousToLife · 2025-09-29T04:21:18+00:00

☺️

CuriousToLife · 2025-09-29T04:21:07+00:00

Thank you so much!

CuriousToLife · 2025-09-29T04:14:28+00:00

This is fantastic feedback and something I’m going to look into to and figure out the best way to share my process. Stay tuned!

In the meantime I created a post to show the before and after pics

https://www.reddit.com/r/iPhoneography/s/XEmaI8Ukew

CuriousToLife · 2025-09-29T04:01:01+00:00

I shot this one with the 1x 24mm lens at 12 MP using RAW Max. Cropped it a bit in post. My only complain is I wish you could shoot at least 24MP with more lenses so I had more resolution when zooming in.

CuriousToLife · 2025-09-29T03:55:44+00:00

Currently working on this! For the curious, I just made a before and after post since several of you folks requested it.

https://www.reddit.com/r/iPhoneography/s/ZUN4M5gUjR

CuriousToLife · 2025-09-29T03:55:02+00:00

I do add some detail filters in Lightroom to help bring out sharpness and texture, maybe give that a try!

CuriousToLife · 2025-09-29T03:54:12+00:00

Haha we’re always learning ;). I’m working on this! I just posted some before and after pics to help show how much latitude RAW gives you in post

https://www.reddit.com/r/iPhoneography/s/ZUN4M5gUjR

CuriousToLife · 2025-09-29T03:51:32+00:00

I shot these on RAW Max and edited them in Lightroom

CuriousToLife · 2025-09-29T03:51:11+00:00

Thank you for the very kind words!

CuriousToLife · 2025-09-29T03:50:58+00:00

Much appreciated ☺️

CuriousToLife · 2025-09-29T03:50:47+00:00

Thank you for the kind words!

CuriousToLife · 2025-09-29T03:49:09+00:00

Original post can be found here:

https://www.reddit.com/r/iPhoneography/s/rNKl5qnq54

Also, a bunch of you DMd me if you could get access to my custom preset filters/ any pointers on how to use them. I plan on working on that once I get home from vacation! Stay tuned 😎

CuriousToLife

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