Barry showed up in the yard this morning with his dirt bike so plans changed and we went for a dirt bike ride up into the hilly forest today.
Rest spot
We rode around the roads and eventually ended up here at our rest spot high on the hilltop. It’s a bit smoky out there today.
Barry has a hammock here so headed for that.
I sat here on the ground and it was comfortable enough. A couple of planes flew over so Barry checked them out on his cell phone as he had an app on there that tracks planes. A couple of CalFire planes headed up the coast line.
Trail check out
After a good rest there Barry wanted to check out this trail to see how many trees were down on it as he’s thinking of cleaning it up soon.
Firewood area
We hopped back on the bikes and headed over to a place he was thinking of cutting his fire wood soon. Lot’s of fire wood there but he has to clean some brush off the road to get his truck down to the trees, another project.
Carrots are sweet
We rode around some more checking which road to use to get his truck up the hill without cutting too much brush along the roadside and eventually ended up at Tom’s garden. He’s likes the carrots there, says they are sweet.
We were tired out from all the riding so headed on home. I gave him a flat of eggs and he took off for home and I took off for a nap.
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.
