My old friend Marty came by for a visit today. We sat around and shot the bull for awhile then hopped in my side by side and took a ride up into the forest going up through the state park and up the old road I’d been working on all winter and most of the spring.
And then we rode around the forest just enjoying the ride.
We were headed to the top for a break when we ran into this old log that had rolled down the hill and onto the road. I got out and rolled it off the road.
The Top of the hills
We made it to the top for a break.
And sat around and shot the bull some more. The fog was out there coming in off the ocean.
Little pond
From there we rode on down to the pond where I had some more chairs.
Of course we sat around and shot the bull some more and enjoyed the little pond. You don’t need a big pond to enjoy it, a little pond does just as well.
We eventually worked our way back to my place where Marty took off for home and I went in for a nap.
Kitty Kat
My neighbor’s cat came by later in the day for a visit and to do some hunting in the 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.
