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I was on my way back home from office when I recognized a strange sky and lighting. So I hurried with my bike uphill, snachted my MKII+Elmarit R 60 mm and was just in time to catch this appearance of our house. And soon after a heavy thunderstorm raged in our region.

Having photographed it from sea level quite a few times, on a stormy weather day I decided to go for a different point of view. This is Durdle Door from above, taken during one of my Workshops in Dorset last spring. Leica S, Leica Summarit-S 35mm and Formatt-Hitech Firecrest filters. Thanks for viewing, best regards Vieri

Sunrise at Zabriskie Point, taken in Death Valley during one of the Workshops I led there last January. Leica S (007), Leica Vario-Elmar-S 30-90mm and Formatt-Hitech Firecrest filters. Thanks for viewing, best regards Vieri

Castel Boccale at sunrise, taken in Tuscany (Italy) during a Workshop I led there in Fall 2017. Leica SL, Voigtlander 15mm and filters Formatt-Hitech Firecrest. Thank you for viewing, best regards Vieri

A Badwater sunset, taken during one of the Workshops I led in Death Valley last January. Leica SL, Voigtlander 15mm v. III and Formatt-Hitech Firecrest filters. Thanks for viewing, best regards, Vieri

A wonderful long exposure (3' 20") sunrise in the Valli di Comacchio, in Italy, taken during my Leica Akademie Italy Workshop there last year. Leica SL, Voigtlander 15mm and Formatt-Hitech Firecrest filters. Thanks for viewing, best regards Vieri

Hello everyone! Please, I need some advice to resolve an issue I have. It's not LR's fault. It's mine. For bad management. Short story. I have used LR since v4, and I'm very familiar with it, at least the old perpetual license workflow. Then I switched in 2018 to C1 20, and since last October to LR mobile. But I had never used the LR cloud ecosystem before. I bought an iPad Pro 12.9" last fall, and it's a joy to edit, minimalist and very intuitive; I can edit with the pencil wherever I want; I like it a lot. I initially subscribed to LR + 1TB, but then I realized then I can't work on the iPad only and that I needed the LR classic, too, for better file management and organization of all events and assignments. But now, I'm having trouble syncing, and I'm asking for your help to find a solution w/o losing all edits and having duplicate original files. I hope you can understand well despite my bad English. Sorry about that! Some facts: My original DNG and Raws files are on my iMac internal drive, synced to DropBox. It works like a charm for me. This is a must. Until yesterday, once I had new daily Leica pictures to download, I was using the iPad Pro because between the USHII SD card, the M1 processor, and the fast SD reader, it was much quicker than my 2017 iMac. Once the editing was over, I exported final jpegs and original DNG files via AirDrop to my iMac and saved everything in the proper and respective folders. I know there is an extra step on this, but it has worked well for me. Ideally, (now) I would love to download all the new files in my DropBox (iMac), then import them to LR Classic in the same folder I never changed (all the Leica DNG keepers) then sync to LR mobile. Why? Because I want my physical DNG on my iMac for best practice and to sync faster in Classic, the keywords, batch actions, and things that you can better do on the Classic instead of an iPad. But I still would love to just edit the new photos on the iPad because I enjoy it more. Now that I'm syncing all the LR mobile files and edits to my LR Classic, it's downloading all the original files (duplicates) on my computer 😞 But I have them already in a beautiful, organized DropBox folder. Tomorrow maybe everything will be already synced. But a mess So, here go my questions: If I delete the Mobile download big file and then tell Lr Classic to relocate the original DNG in my DropBox, what's happening? Can I do that? I can forget about all the folders and collections/albums on the iPad; I can do that. I can add new collections to the Classic from scratch and start from zero; it's not a big deal. But of course, I don't want to lose all the edits I did on the iPad. Is there a way to sync or copy all the edits? For last. Let's pretend I successfully find the way to resolve everything I have so far. Great. But if I want to switch to "LR Classic + Lr Mobile + 20GB plan," can I still work on my iPad after running out of all the GB available? I have no interest at all in working with the Cloud. I don't need an online backup. I just want to be able, with wifi at home exclusively, to work on desktop and iPad and have everything sync. Is this possible, or I would need to purchase the 1TB plan? I love this sentence: great power comes with great responsibility. Yes, it's good to work on several devices and environments, but hey, so many things to consider. I have always been consistent in photography and backups, but I have never found a long-term editing workflow and solution. And I'm paying the price. I just now want to find a definitive resolution. But I need some clarity cause I'm sure that I still need to understand something fundamental, lol. In a way, I'm still old school, and I'm suffering all this 'modern' stuff. All your feedback and help are much appreciated. Thank you 🙏

Skatafell National Park is the biggest national park in Europe, main reason for this park is third biggest glacial cover in the world, it is called Vatnajokul. Camera: Leica M-P Lens: Noctilux-M 50mm f/0.95 ASPH. Location: Iceland