I didn’t have anything planned for the day so I sat around with the chickens for some chair hopping.
Eventually, I decided to go for a bike ride up into the hills to visit with some neighbors.
I rode up into the forest on the Talking Trees Trail. The trees only talk when it is real windy, so they were real quiet today.
I rode out this road to get to my neighbors.
These neighbors live high up on the hill tops and this is the road I used to get to their place, just around the corner.
There’s always a good view from up high on the hills.
I made it to their place, but no one was home.
And they haven’t started working on this years garden yet.
I did steel an orange to eat. Hummm good.
After eating my orange, I rode on over to another neighbors, who lives down in a canyon.
I parked here and hollered out, anyone home. I heard some noise in the house and Jim finally came out so we had a good bull session.
When I left his place I heard a funny noise up near my front tire. I stopped to check out the front tire and found it was almost flat, so I went back to the house and got some air for the front tire.
The air in the front tire didn’t last long and I ended up riding home with it flat. I made it home ok. I didn’t feel like fixing the tire, but I did feel like a nap was in order.
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.
