It seemed like a good day to ride the dirt bike up into the hills and visit one of my neighbors who lives on the hill tops.
I took off and stopped here to throw those little logs off the road.
Neighbor’s place
The neighbors live five or so miles up the road just past this spot about another half mile or so.
Hazy
The view today was on the hazy side, maybe from a controlled burn. That tallest peak is where we always stop to take a break, where the hammock is.
Only dogs
I made it to the neighbors place. Three dogs were home and greeted me at the gate. I went in and no one else was around.
That’s ok, as it was a good ride up into the hills and across their place.
After visiting with the dogs a bit, I headed on back to our place and rode around the hills for a couple of hours, just enjoying the day.
The view of the town of Guerneville was real hazy too.
Checking out a road
I rode on over to another neighbor’s place to check out a road that went up into the hills that the fire guys used to fight the forest fire a couple years ago. They left the rode in bad shape and water is running down it and messing it up. I was thinking of repairing it for the neighbor and making it so water doesn’t run down it as we may need it again someday.
I’ll likely work on it the next time I get the dozer started up.
Anyway I rode around all afternoon and then went on home. I was tired out so a big nap was in order and that was my 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.
