My brother Barry showed up in my yard this morning for a dirt bike ride up into the hills so I thought I might as well join him as it’s a good way to get out of work.
Old forest trail
We rode up the old trail first and stopped at the top of it and I went for a short hike to check some stuff out while Barry waited as with his dirt bike ridding boots it’s hard for him to hike in them so he had a rest until I got back.
Rest spot
When I got back we rode around the roads until we needed a rest and headed up to this rest spot which we call Top of the world and rested and enjoyed the view.
Lumber
Then we rode around some more and stopped here to check out some lumber Barry had stored up on the ridge that the fire dozers pushed over. He thinks he can save some of it.
We continued our ride and stopped at this view spot on another neighbors place for a bit before heading home.
Weed mowing
Barry took off for his home and I puttered around the yard, eventually getting the weed mower out to mow down the weeds in this spot.
The weed machine made quick work of that so I put it away and did some chair hopping.
Visiting
Around 4 I drove down to town to visit with John S. for a bit shooting the bull for about an hour.
After that I drove on home and took it easy for the rest of the day.
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.
