Lone Rock eats aluminum poles for breakfast, so spend the $600 or sleep in your truck.

Wait, two inches high for six months?? I am actually dying laughing because that is some serious dedication to not reading the manual. But also, who has time to cook fries in like four batches for one dinner? That single layer rule sounds like it was written by someone who has never fed hungry kids at 6pm. I just shake the basket halfway through and call it good enough, the crispy ones and the pale ones even out eventually.

That neon taco comment at Mather Point would have stung me too, but honestly your story gives me hope. I fell into the same trap with auto white balance for years and my shots all came out looking the same, so hearing that you got two prints into a Flagstaff gallery just by setting it yourself makes me want to finally turn that button off. It really does mess with your memory of what the light actually looked like.