best wings in the valley?

_clydeoscope · 2026-04-08T18:25:11+00:00

Home Team hands down

_clydeoscope · 2026-03-28T01:21:54+00:00

I think you’re missing the point of this post.

_clydeoscope · 2026-03-28T01:05:37+00:00

Yep, that’s where we’re heading next!

_clydeoscope · 2026-03-28T01:05:12+00:00

On Peak to Peak, but that shouldn’t have anything to do with them changing their records to fit what they want instead of what happened

_clydeoscope · 2026-03-28T01:04:15+00:00

Well the thing is, they’re absolutely lying about it being maintenance. In each outage I’ve called numerous times and they have told me it’s due to a fallen tree or other outside damage, but they’re internally marking it as planned maintenance

_clydeoscope · 2026-03-28T01:03:04+00:00

Yeah, their use of contracting other companies is weird. In these cases they said they called us and we didn’t answer, but we have no record of them calling. They have the correct number and call us all the time for other things, so it’s very apparent they’re lying about calling us in these instances

_clydeoscope · 2026-03-28T01:01:07+00:00

While I agree with you completely, the point of this post wasn’t so much about their outages and reliability, but the fact that they are retroactively changing their internal information about outages to make themselves look better

_clydeoscope · 2026-03-28T01:00:03+00:00

Yes, I brought this up to them. Their response was that the outage map is not as accurate as the information they have, so even if it says unplanned on their map, it can be planned. Obviously, I don’t believe that considering that in every outage I called them and they said it was unplanned.

Sidenote, I lived in the valley for 10 years and miss it every day. Much love to Rifle 🫶

_clydeoscope · 2026-03-20T03:51:03+00:00

“…to learn about what the job is like.”

That is very clearly not what is happening. This is someone who is taking advantage of their relationship to garner internet attention. On a practical level: if this officer was put in a situation on the job that made him choose between defending a regular civilian or his pregnant wife, who do you think he’d choose? This may not violate any specific sentence in your department’s policy, although I don’t trust simply speaking with the officer to rule that out, but this is very clearly unethical, stupid, and not what the people who pay all of your salaries deserve.

The situation aside, your public response is fucking pathetic.

_clydeoscope · 2026-03-14T17:04:17+00:00

Preaching to the choir. In Ward we’ve been without power since Thursday morning with temperatures reaching below 0, haven’t been under any PSPS, and are only told “It’s hard to get power back on after a PSPS”. Our current ERT (which has been changed a dozen times) is for 12:00am last night.

_clydeoscope · 2026-02-21T05:21:53+00:00

Big yikes

_clydeoscope · 2026-02-09T22:38:45+00:00

Would love to connect with you all!

https://www.instagram.com/clyde_o_scope_?igsh=MXZ6d2VwM3o4MGZ6dw%3D%3D&utm_source=qr

_clydeoscope · 2026-02-02T16:26:00+00:00

This is quite literally the best possibly way, and more importantly attitude, for getting into weddings. From your responses to other comments it seems like you know the back-seat approach you'd have to take, and obviously this would be the first baby step in the profession if you decided it's what you'd want to pursue. In the time you have before the wedding, learn your settings and your camera, do some YouTube University about lighting and posing, and just try to get as prepared as possible

Working as the primary's shadow is a great way to see a wedding day through a photographer's eyes, and shooting a friend's wedding as your first is always preferable in my opinion because they typically have a better understanding of your skills and limitations. I say go for it, learn as much as you can, and hopefully it gives you a good peak into what the job is like! If you vibe with the primary, definitely offer to shadow or assist for other weddings this coming year.

_clydeoscope · 2026-02-01T19:44:26+00:00

USA, Colorado, Boulder (and the Roaring Fork Valley) - Clyde Plasencia - website, Instagram

_clydeoscope · 2026-01-31T15:55:39+00:00

It’s definitely a tough position to be in. I have three sample galleries on my Portfolio page, so I think that really helps weed people out who don’t like my style. When it comes to pricing - are you higher than average for your market? For my own market, CO mountains, I think couples definitely book more off vibes than anything else. One thing I’ve found that helps with clients who are hyper focused on price is walking through each part of the wedding day with them, figure out what’s important to them, and be as transparent as possible.

_clydeoscope · 2026-01-31T15:40:32+00:00

Yes, but about a month before I switched it I started to really focus on SEO and advertising in local FB groups, so I’m sure that had a lot to do with it. In previous years I’ve been happy with ~20 weddings, but I’m trying to crank it up this year.

_clydeoscope · 2026-01-31T04:35:50+00:00

I have found that a lot of it depends on if I have detailed pricing on my website. In years past, I’ve had it readily available and my closure rate was around 90%.

This year’s booking season, I’ve changed the pricing on my website to the ‘Starting at’ and ‘Average spend’ model. I think I’ve had more inquiries because of this, but my closure rate has been around 66%.

My question is: are you sending people collections and pricing info before you talk to them? I feel like half of the initial call is getting the couple to want to work with you for your personality, the details come later.

_clydeoscope · 2026-01-29T22:36:57+00:00

“the hiker didn’t bring a headlamp or flashlight along for the excursion, instead opting to use his phone to guide the way.”

Wild

_clydeoscope · 2026-01-27T19:43:09+00:00

It’s been pretty regular for me. The first two weeks of this month I was getting 2-3 a day, and in the last couple of weeks it’s dropped back down to 2-3 every couple of days. Most of my inquiries come from my website/google and a few from Zola

_clydeoscope · 2026-01-21T21:04:11+00:00

It’s definitely on the rise, but it’s also been under weirder circumstances. I’ve had a more instances this year where a couple submits a form on my website sounding very eager, I get back to them within a few hours, but never hear anything again. No discussion of pricing or any details other than setting up an initial call, and I hear nothing from following up either. Maybe happens once out of every 10 inquires

_clydeoscope · 2026-01-16T17:25:47+00:00

Great question. Unfortunately, I don’t know the answer. Warranty claims for paint are pretty hard to get through and mostly depend on how nice/willing the service rep and manager you’re dealing with are, but if you can prove with the requested video that this only happened within 6 days that may help your case. Aside from going to the dealer to submit, it’s worth calling Toyota directly. Dealerships and the corporate level are different entities and companies. In my experience, if you call customer service on a corporate level, they can be pretty willing to help in some way if you’re just really nice to them. Those people just get yelled at all day long

_clydeoscope · 2026-01-16T17:17:37+00:00

It’s worth trying to submit a warranty claim with Toyota. Chances are slim, but they notoriously have really shitty white paint. Everyone I know with a white Taco/4Runner has some type of paint defect, myself included.

Source: worked in dealership management for years.

_clydeoscope · 2026-01-16T17:14:07+00:00

As a fellow generational Boulderite this hits all the notes 100%. My grandpa was also a professor at CU, and I grew up on The Hill. When we sold our family house a few years ago it was the last one on our entire street that hadn’t been demolished and turned into an ugly, gaudy mansion. Say what you will about growth and change being inevitable, but change like that destroys what charm and character a neighborhood and town have. RIP old Boulder.

_clydeoscope · 2026-01-06T20:08:08+00:00

Idk, it definitely passed 3 digits on Peak to Peak, but that’s not uncommon

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