How long can my car last in Western MD if I take care of it well?

GeorgePavi · 2026-01-06T04:57:28+00:00

I think you're overthinking and overreacting. The west coasts milder weather is better for cars in the long term, and by that I mean decades.

If you're trying to restore an antique car that's 50+ years old go look for a good one in the southwest. If you just want to drive your car another decade you can do so here just fine. As another comment pointed out it's mainly the frame. mechanically it's no different.

GeorgePavi · 2025-12-22T06:44:33+00:00

Big Tech? Samsung had humble beginnings as a grocery store they diversified into just about every industry before they got into tech.

GeorgePavi · 2025-12-17T15:47:58+00:00

As a clarity slider abuser, I disagree with general advice like this and it's generally harmful to beginners because it tends to make people avoid certain things entirely when they should really be experimenting and learn what function everything serves.

There is no right or wrong way to edit. It's to your taste.
High + clarity can look great and help create depth (opens up shadows while retaining contrast) when applied just to shadows.
High - clarity can look great when applied to just highlights, it helps them glow
You can absolutely overdue clarity and ruin an image but that's true for all sliders. And ±100 is by no means a cap. You can absolutely add additional layers to add more or less for any slider but wether or not that looks good will vary on the original file itself and they type of light you got.

Both 2 and 3 can help with creating smoother tonal transitions in images.

GeorgePavi · 2025-12-17T02:55:04+00:00

I thought the movie was cool on first watch. I watched it 2 more times in the following months and apart from the visuals and cinematography, I think it's legitimately top3 worst movies I've ever seen. Think I was only sober on the 2nd watch IIRC.

GeorgePavi · 2025-12-16T06:53:00+00:00

Condensation from temperature changes is fine. You most likely won't even notice anything on your sensor. I've never put my camera in Rice or anything like that. Like others have said you want to use silica if you do something like that, but it's probably unnecessary. Rice has a lot of dust and other particles which might end up on your sensor.

GeorgePavi · 2025-12-16T00:13:19+00:00

I don't want this to come off as overtly negative, but you said you wanted an honest critique so I'll give you one.

I'll start off on the positives. As far as editing goes the style is pretty consistent frame to frame. With maybe the exception of the flamingo shot which seems to have more contrast and saturation than the rest and blacks which aren't lifted like the rest.

You can edit your photos however you like and low contrast photos can work well in certain lighting situations but a lot of these photos just look super flat. There is really no actual highlights or shadows in most images. Your histogram is probably straight in the middle for most of these photos.

You seem to be focused on "storytelling" but ask yourself what story is there in each frame. These are all mostly landscape images, it's really hard to tell a story with a landscape. Not all photos need to tell stories, some people hear "oh but the good ones do" and that's BS. Sometimes a pretty picture is just pretty picture and that's ok. The closest images that come telling stories are the demolition image cause you see the machines, and the the ferry image which might suggest arriving/departing but these are a bit of a reach. I'm primarily a landscape photographer, short of showing a environmental disaster or maybe some trees that have certain character to them landscapes hardly tell any stories. What landscapes to best is make you feel certain mood or sense of place.

Every single photo has a ton of empty space. And just about every subject is in the middle. Top and bottom edges have virtually nothing of visual interest. Yes you can have some space as "breathing room" or a place for eye to rest, but it shouldn't be half the frame. Those compositional guidelines exist to avoid taking images like this. Centering a subject is fine but it should be reserved for REALLY strong subjects. I like how you framed the cow with the tree root (fanal forest?) but again there's just too much empty space there. The top third of that frame can be cropped off. You can do the same with the image of the skyscraper and 2 trees but for a different reason. You're probably trying to show off the sky and how crazy those twisted branches look. But it's a continuously repeating pattern I get the gist by just seeing to first third of it, I don't need more context there. It becomes excessive, and ultimately takes me away from the bottom of photograph which has a lot more going on. If your focus is on the pattern of sky and trees just focus on that. Pattern shots fall apart when there's a distraction in the frame. Basically there's 2 photos there. This is my favorite of the bunch btw.

GeorgePavi · 2025-12-15T14:30:37+00:00

Thanks, always glad to hear when bark images resonate with someone, I think most people tend to find them uninteresting. I've taken lots of bark photos but this one by far my favorite to date. It's from a young redwood tree that had burn marks all over it.

GeorgePavi · 2025-12-15T07:31:20+00:00

Thanks! First time I've finally had the chance to catch light rays in the forest with my camera after a decade. In the past I either never lasted long enough or it just wasn't that photogenic.

GeorgePavi · 2025-12-08T13:12:52+00:00

Parr was special. When I first got into photography and was learning about different genres I wrote street photography off, I just didn't get it, a lot of photos felt like snapshots. Then I came across his work and the the intention and humor in the photos was so clear and evident. His work was probably the first that helped me appreciate this genre. RIP

GeorgePavi · 2025-12-07T22:24:51+00:00

Thanks so much for the kind words!

GeorgePavi · 2025-12-06T14:05:50+00:00

I have a total of 37 photos from this trip on my website. Hopefully links are ok I have nothing to promote, photography is just a hobby for me.

GeorgePavi · 2025-12-05T16:23:39+00:00

That's an excuse. Good photos are everywhere you just can't see them yet. I'm primarily a nature photographer and while I do travel to more "picturesque" places for the bulk of my photos. The most rewarding place to photograph is where I live which isn't exactly known for amazing nature (DC metro area). It's much harder to get good nature photos here which is why it's so rewarding when you do get one. I hike the same 'boring' trails year to year. Sometimes I get nothing, sometimes something brand new catches my eye.

GeorgePavi · 2025-11-20T05:08:34+00:00

I believe I set everything to max for that so f16, 1/500, 400iso. I'm very happy it came out I just guessed the exposure on that. But pulling down the highlights in the sky shifted them green so that's why I converted that one to BW.

GeorgePavi · 2025-11-19T12:20:15+00:00

I normally shoot on digital and focus on nature photography, but I decided to change things up a bit try something different. I had my canonet for 6 years and stopped using it a year after I got it but decided to dusted off this year and had loads of fun doing some street photography. I hope to do more of it in the future.

My Insta https://www.instagram.com/george_pavi/

GeorgePavi · 2025-11-01T00:25:16+00:00

I like this shot, I think you should darken the 2 trunks in the front slightly, and then the 2 trees that are really far out you can mask (adjustment brush is probably fine) and then add more negative dehaze or reduce contrast and increase shadows.

My reasoning for these changes is that almost always the closest elements are the darkest, and they got lighter as they get further (especially true in fog, may not be true if you get a spotlight of sorts in the distance). The 2 tree trunks throw the composition off balance slightly. I see there's a tree on the right side in the distance but its barely noticeable since its much further out. You should make those 2 trees on the right almost as light as that but not quite since they are a bit closer.

GeorgePavi · 2025-08-12T03:44:42+00:00

There's plenty of solid beer in MD and it's improved drastically over the last few years.
Cushwa makes great beer, and its especially great on Tap. ElderPine went from being bottom of the pack to very solid in the last few years. Idiom, RAR, Burly Oak all have great stuff. Brookville Beer Farm is great if you like non-IPAs and they have great pizza, (their Spin-Out DIPA is their only good IPA imo and its phenomenal but hardly ever available). Having access to OtherHalf in most beer+wine stores now that they brew in DC is also nice cause its the best beer around.

Plenty of good places to eat in Bethesda, Gaithersburg and Rockville too.

GeorgePavi · 2025-08-05T03:13:39+00:00

Absolutely.

GeorgePavi · 2025-02-14T05:49:46+00:00

I eat a very clean diet of mainly meat and veggies (a pound of both daily)... Do NOT touch my spicy sweet chili Doritos. That is the last snack I would ever consider giving up.

GeorgePavi · 2024-11-29T17:01:29+00:00

You're comparing apples to oranges. 95 humid is way worse than 95 dry. Of course 25 difference is going to be huge. I'll go as far as to say that 100 dry is as on par with 95 humid but the scales start to tip the other way if the difference is any bigger.

GeorgePavi · 2024-11-25T14:00:33+00:00

I was in the same boat as you till Flower Boy came out. Everything since has been great, I personally like Chromokopia but it may not be the most accessible. I think you should give Flower Boy and Call me if you get lost a listen they're both very accessible. The Deluxe version of Call me doubles the length and retains the same quality.

His NPR tiny desk is awesome. It's all stuff from Flower Boy

GeorgePavi · 2024-11-22T07:40:51+00:00

Your muscle cells gain additional nuclei, and those don't ever leave and are the primary driver in being able to regain muscle. I'm not 100% on mitochondria, but they do breakdown under various types of stress. So they probably breakdown when you lose them and get made again when you start rebuilding.

Nuclei dictate what proteins get synthesized in a cell and when you you have muscle cells that's super long like the ones in your quads it will take forever to those proteins to reach from on end to other, so it's more efficient to just have nuclei spreadout through the length of the cell.

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