Barry showed up for a ride this morning with a couple of his relatives. While they were getting ready to go I spotted this hawk that landed watching my chickens. I think it was too small to take out a chicken.
One of the dirt bikes wouldn’t start as the battery was low. They worked on getting it started and Barry was finally able to get it started by pushing it.
They all took off and when I tried to start my bike, the battery was also low. I remembered I have another bike so I switched to that one and I caught up with them..
Spring stop
We stopped here at this spring to get a drink of water.
Air down
Gerald was complaining about his bikes tires slipping out so he let some air out of the tires and things got better, much better with the lowered tires.
We rode over to my pond and stopped for a minute to check it out.
We rode around some more then stopped at this spring for a drink of water.
Enjoying a cup of fresh spring water.
Break area
Eventually we made it up to our break area at the top of the mountain.
The view
Always a nice view from up there.
Lunch break
The guys were talking about the sandwiches they’d made and left down in the truck, so we had to ride back so they could have some lunch.
Shopping
I left them at it as I needed to go to the shopping area and buy some stuff to eat at Costco.
I did that and stopped at a gas station on the way home that sold red diesel. I had six five gallon containers that I felled up for my bulldozer.
I made it home and unloaded the stuff I’d purchased today.
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.
