Barry showed up in my yard this morning. He was going up into the forest and cut downed trees off the road, so I joined him.
Drizzle
There was a light drizzle, so I got my rain jacket on and I took a chance by not putting on the rain pants and hoped for the best as far as it not starting to rain hard. I was hoping it would let up or stop. It did let up a bit, but never really stopped, especially up on the hill tops.
We rode up this trail on my cousin’s place looking for downed trees.
I took some pictures of each one, then helped Barry throw the stuff off the road.
Barry cutting these ones so we can throw them off the road and get by.
These were some of the larger ones we removed today.
We’d worked on this one a few days ago, so we had to finish the job today.
We made it to the top at our break area. Not much view today, but it was still nice and we got some rest. A light drizzle was falling.
From there we went down to the Talking Trees Trail and removed some downed trees on it to clear the trail.
Here’s one of the trees on the trail that we removed. This trial goes up to our waterfall, but we didn’t make it that far today.
We got back on our bikes and headed for the last downed tree we knew about.
This was the last one. We took care of it and then headed back to my place.
Barry wanted to take some woodchips home so he got this half barrel and started loading it up with woodchips.
He realized he wouldn’t be able to load the barrel into his truck, when full, so he stopped before filling it and put it in his truck and filled it up with a bucket. The chickens were helping him out, not really.
There are over a hundred pictures that are served up randomly every time you visit or change pages. They are of earlier pictures of interest and also some just to remind me of things.
A Sony AX33 4K, a video camera that takes stills too. What am I doing with that? I take pictures from my Kayak a lot. I found I was missing interesting shots, because my pic was being processed in my camera, before it would let me take another pic. Since I like to take what I call action stills, I bought this camera to take videos, that I could make stills out of, but, as a bonus, this camera also came with buttons to just take stills and that's what I mostly do, unless something is real interesting or too far away for my still zooms. My digilat zoom setting for video goes to two hundred x, and sometimes I need that, but usually, I only use the 10x lens zoom. Because this camera is HD and 4K, the quality has to be real good and it has a lot of stabilizers on it which really helps out a lot for taking pics on the water.
The other thing it has that is a must is a view finder and I had to buy Sony's top of the line cam to get it. This is a must for taking pics on the water, as you must hold the camera as still as posible and putting that eye piece to the eye forms a tripod with your arms that helps a lot. The eye piece is also a must as it works way better than a LED screen to see what you are taking a picture of in the daylight as the LED screens wash out easily in sunlight.
I also have another video camera, a Canon VIXIA G30. I use them both to mostly take stills. The Sony takes higher resolution stills than the G30. That was a bit of a disappointment as I bought the G30 to replace an older camera I dunked in the river, but then had to buy the Sony to get higher still picture resolution that the G30 was lacking.
