I didn’t have anything planned for the day. I was thinking of going for a paddle down at the river. I checked the wind and it wasn’t bad but I decided to do that tomorrow.
The sun was out nice so I did some chair hopping around the yard with the chickens and took it easy and jus enjoyed the yard and the nice day.
Later, in the afternoon I jumped on the dirt bike and rode up into the hills to do some hiking around and some work on a trail. Half way up into the hills I realized I forgot my camera. I seem to be doing that more often lately.
Trail work
I rode around the hills for about an hour then headed over to a trail and walked out it about a half mile or so and widened the trail a bit in a spot.
Before I knew it, it started to get dark on me and my dirt bike doesn’t have a light on it. I was walking back to the dirt bike to head on home when I remembered I had a long sleeved shirt somewhere, but couldn’t remember just where I left it. I walked back down the trail as it seemed like I hung it on a tree somewhere. I found it, right where I left it and put it on as the day was cooling down.
Walking back down the trail for the shirt cost me some more daylight but it was still light enough for me to see the road if I didn’t go too fast. I headed on home and shut the chickens up for the 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.
