First thing I did today was get the ice pack out and use it a couple of times to get started. I was able to just barely get in the upright position with a bit of pain. I thought it was a good idea to take it easy and not do much today.
Ride up into the forest
Later in the day, I hopped on the dirt bike for a ride up into the forest, which is helpful to loosen up the back if I take it easy on the bike. I stopped here to collect the game cam card.
Game cam
Not much on that game cam. I moved it over a bit to this spot as the other spot was picking up too many shadows as the sun moved around.
Break at the overlook
I rode on over to this overlook to take a break for a bit.
The view. There seems to be a bit of smoke in the air from a forest fire somewhere.
Going for a walk
There’s a trail here that takes off towards the back in the grass.
Part of it is nice and wide so I took off on it for a walk.
Trail narrows
It goes a ways wide, then narrows down to this, a deer type trail which I hope to improve this winter.
I sat on a log out there for a nice break before heading back to the bike at the overlook.
Headed for home
This is the trail I rode to head on home which is mostly down hill.
I stopped to collect the other game cam card near the bottom of the hill.
A coon, think, but maybe not? It’s headed down towards where all the houses are. The more I look at it, I’m not sure it is a coon.
But I am sure this is a grey squirrel.
Cam in my yard
Here’s a couple of pictures of some turkey vultures cleaning up a dead chicken in my yard.
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.
