I didn’t have anything planned for the day, so I headed up into the forest to take it easy today.
I stopped by the pond for a bit. The water is muddy from a lot of ravens using it to bathe and to drink. They are here doing that for most of the day. There are lots of ravens in the forest right now as it’s fall and there are lots of acorns and berries for them to eat.
Trail walk
I was sitting at a overlook where a trail started, just taking it easy. I walked over to where the trail started and eventually found myself walking down the trail. It’s an easy trail, so it sorta just sucks you in.
I found this nice log to use as a chair so sat there for quite a spell.
There were lots of ravens flying around up in the air above me and in the trees making all the noises ravens make.
They are eating acorns from several different kinds of oak trees and these madrone tree berries that they like a lot.
I walked a bit further out the trail until I ran into these downed trees across the trail. I’ll need a chainsaw to remove them. I turned around and walked back out the trail to the overlook.
Overlook
Back at the overlook, the sun was going down. I made this little flat so I could move a chair onto it, to watch the sun going down.
The sun is about to go down below the mountains to the west.
I hung around there for a bit longer but the sun going down meant it was time to head on towards home. I traveled down this road.
I ran into this little piece of brush on the road so stopped to remove it, an easy one.
I thought I had it made, but I ran into this one. I got the chainsaw out to remove it. It wasn’t too bad to remove and I made quick work of it.
I made it home and spent some time chair hopping with the chickens.
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.
