I heard something outside this morning. It was Barry with his dirt bike, so I got my stuff together and joined him for a ride up into the hills.
Waterfall
We rode up to the water fall and got off the bikes to check it out. It has slowed up a lot, but is still beautiful and makes a nice soothing sound.
The falls is in a nice area, real lush as we hop back on our bikes.
Ridge top
We rode around for awhile then headed up to the top of the ridge to our break area. It was a bit overcast today. It must of rained a bit last night as we got pretty wet from the bushes on the roads we had to ride through.
We rested up for a spell before taking off again.
Getting wet
Then we rode through another area with lots of brush on the road and got our pants real wet, so we cut it short and headed for home.
Warming up and a booboo
Barry took off and I rested up a bit after getting a fire going in my wood stove. Eventually, I realized I was supposed to feed my brother’s chickens and gather the eggs while he was out fishing in the ocean. Better late than never.
Making videos
After I fed his chickens I rode the bike on up into the hills with a purpose.
I stopped here to get a longer black water pipe for the spring I was working on, the newest one, Redwood Spring.
I was taking the longer pipe and a one gallon paint can up to the spring to make some videos on how to do a temporary tap and how to measure the flow of water out of a spring on a hillside.
Redwood spring
I rode on up to the spring.
Measuring water flow from a spring
I installed the new pipe and measured the water flow of the new spring which was 6 gallons per minute which is good for springs around here. This one will slow up as the summer progresses.
Making videos
Then I shot videos of the whole measuring process with three different cameras, my video camera, my phone and my new 360 camera I just got and need to figure out how to use it.
I spent quite a bit of time doing that so I can make some new videos for YouTube about tapping springs.
I did quite a few retakes, and was finally satisfied I had enough clips to put some stuff together for the videos.
Interesting camera
I was testing the new 360 camera and it will be interesting to see what I got with that camera.
After I got what I needed and a drink of water, I headed on home.
It sled again
On the way by this spring I’ve been working on, I noticed the hill had slid some more, so I have more to dig out. It’s just as good it slides now so I can deal with it and get it over with. Each time it slides, my odds increase on it not sliding again.
Memorial Spring
I think I’ll name this spring, Memorial Spring as some of my family is buried near by.
Chickens
Back home the chickens were eager to get into the front yard, one of their favorite spots to graze.
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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.
That’s the kind of knowledge you don’t find much any more. Nice of you to pass it on to others.