Today I had to drive over to the VA lab and have some blood drawn.
On the way over there I passed by my brother Barry with his dirt bike heading for my place.
I was right on time at the VA and got taken care of.
Dirt bike ride in the forest
I headed on home and got the dirt bike out.
Barry was up in the hills riding around somewhere so I headed on up to see if I could hear his cycle. I’d go a ways and stop and see if I could hear him but I didn’t hear his bike no mater where I was.
Waiting at the Guerneville overlook
Eventually I ended up at the Guerneville overlook and sat and waited as eventually Barry would be by or I’d hear him.
I was there about fifteen minutes when he rode up so we had a good break there and shot the bull for a bit. That Barry’s in his resting position. I sat on a log.
This is the view from there.
Guerneville
With the little town of Guerneville down there by the river resting in the trees.
Smoke
Barry spotted some smoke to the west and said he heard they were doing some controlled burns out that way.
We got back on the bikes and rode all around the roads going this way and that way for a good ride which is always nicer after the first rain.
We stooped here to check out a mushroom area, but it’s early yet.
After a good ride we headed back to my place and Barry loaded up and I had a nap.
The day was pretty much over by then so I did some chair hopping until just before dark.
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.
