My friend Marty was coming by today for a visit and I thought it would be a good idea to take a ride up into the hills.
When he arrived we walked around the yard and shot the bull a bit and then hopped in the Toyota and drove on up to the Guerneville overlook at the ridge top here.
Enjoying the day
We put two chairs in the back before we left so we sat here and shot the bull and made some traveling plans and just enjoyed the day.
Guerneville
Our view of Guerneville from that spot.
A bit of work
After a good break there we worked our way across the property where there was this little rock slide on the road that I wanted to load up to fill in a drainage ditch crossing at the bottom of the hill. I told Marty to sit down and supervise while I loaded up the rock.
So I loaded up the Toyota with rocks and we started down the hill.
Roadwork
I knew there were some trees across the road so I had brought my chainsaw along to cut them out. This was a little one.
Stopped for a drink
Then we stopped at this spring to check it out and get a drink of water before continuing on down the hill.
More rocks
I went by this other pile of rocks and decided to just use the sledge hammer to break them up a bit into these smaller pieces to pick up some other time.
Unloading the rocks
We continued on down the hill and stopped at the crossing that needed the rocks and I unloaded them while Marty supervised again.
Unloading is much quicker than loading and that didn’t take long and we drove on back to my house.
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.
