I got up late today and was moving slow. Today I wanted to do some pruning on some of my fruit trees because spring is rapidly approaching. I thought I would go for a paddle in the afternoon after a little work.
I started out on a big peach tree. I did a little work on it and went in for a nap.
After the nap, I decided to check out my van and see what needed to be loaded for an up coming trip to Port Orford, OR.
I filled all the water jogs and replaced my summer blanket with one for the winter. And another nap was in order.
After that, I was thinking of doing some more work on the peach tree, but it was so nice outside, I could only sit in my chair enjoying the day until it was nap time again. And of course, it was so nice out, I put off going to the river for a paddle.
I still had a little in me, so I went through all my stuff in the van to take inventory and see what else I needed to stock it up and then another nap and that was about it for this day.
I’ve been looking at the weather in Port Orford for the next couple of weeks and it is mostly rain, with not many days of no rain in between the storms. I’d really like to go up there, but I’m not sure at the moment what to do? It’s a days drive up there from here, so if I get washed out or too wet, it’s not that far to just come home again.
I think I’ll just continue to prep my van and watch the weather for a bit and maybe take off during this week. In the mean time, I think I’ll continue enjoying the nice weather we are having here.
It was rather slow today, but sometimes that’s just what’s needed.
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.
