I decided to stay home today and putter around in the yard. The first thing I did was walk out here and see if any of the cherries were getting ripe yet. There’s a cherry tree near the center of the picture, but the cherries weren’t quite ripe yet, but they are starting to turn. I might get some if the birds leave me any.
I did some work
One of the things I wanted to do today was install a valve that feeds the water from the new well over to my brothers place, so I worked on that and about got it done.
Enjoying the day
I spent a lot of time sitting around and just enjoying the day, so I wasn’t real productive most of the time. But I did do some planning for more yard projects I need to get done.
Just before dark I noticed this pink climbing rose was looking quite silky.
The day cooled down as it was getting dark which drove me into the house and that was it for another 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.
