Somehow my brother Barry pulled into my yard and unloaded his dirt bike and rode up into the hills somewhere, so I got my dirt bike out and rode up to look for him.
Looking for Barry
I’d stop and listen for his dirt bike and move on when I didn’t hear it. I rode all over our place and part of the neighbors but didn’t hear a sound.
Guerneville
I stopped here at the Guerneville overlook for a bit. Looks like Korbel winery just turned over the grass in their vineyard down there.
I rode around a bit more and still couldn’t find him. He must have been resting someplace so I went on home.
Armstrong Valley Farm
Then I walked over to my brother Tom’s garden to see what he was up to.
He’s been prepping the ground and planting some stuff.
I found Tom in his hen house gathering eggs that he sells at the farmer’s markets.
Barry shows up
After that I went on home and was puttering around when Barry rode in on his dirt bike.
He said he had fallen down and gotten some scrapes on an arm and a leg and some knee hurt too. Ought.
The bull flies
We were shooting the bull when Tom drove up on his golf cart so we all shoot the bull for a bit
After they left I continued puttering around the yard doing little things and finished the day chair hopping.
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.
