John came by about noon today. He was going to help me do some trail work up in the forest.
We took his truck up to the base of the hill and got our tools and hiked up to the spot where we were going to work on the trail, about half mile up the hill.
Hiking up the trail
We walked up through here on the Talking Trees Trail.
Waterfall
And turned off on the Waterfall trail and on up. There’s a little water in the waterfall so far.
We continued on up the hill on this trail.
Trail work spot
And made it to this spot where I wanted to improve the trail a bit.
We worked on that trail for about 4 hours with some breaks in there too and shot the bull a bit too. It’s a very peaceful spot. Too busy working and shooting the bull to take photos. :O)
Took another way back
Around 4 we quit and hiked on up the hill to an old road and over the top of the ridge by the fire break and on down another road back to his truck.
Apples
On the way out we stopped here and grabbed an apple and ate it.
John took off for home and I had a nap and I bet John did too.
Mulching
After resting up I went out and did some chair hopping and eventually hauled the last four loads of mulch to the garden I’d been working on and that was my 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.
