My brother Barry was outside with his dirt bike when I got up this morning so it seemed like a good idea to join him in a dirt bike ride up the hill and around the forest. I thought of checking the bikes gas but it had a reserve setting so I didn’t and I should have.
We have a couple gates to go through to get across the public road to where we ride.
We got through the gates and off we went.
We veered off to where there were some apples getting ripe and packed our pockets with them for eating later.
We rode up and around and Barry stopped here to remove a stick I think.
Top of the world
Off we went again and eventually ended up here at the Top of the World where we usually take a good break just enjoying the place.
That’s Barry’s resting spot and his position.
After a good relaxing break we saddled up and took off again.
We rode over to one of our neighbors here and turned around.
Drink of water
And off we went again. Barry said he was going down to one of our springs for a drink of water so I followed but never made it.
Out of gas
The bike ran out of gas so I tried to put it in reserve but I found out it was already on reserve as I’d had it set wrong all this time I’ve had the bike so I parked here and started walking down the road figuring my brother would be back soon when he missed me at the spring.
As long as I was walking down the road I threw off little rocks and sticks as I went.
Get some gas
Eventually I heard my bother on his bike so we discussed the problem. He was going down the hill to get some gas and would bring it back on the quad runner.
So he left and I started back towards the dirt bike taking my time throwing more rocks off the road.
Barry came back with the gas just before I got back to the dirt bike.
Here’s the gas and there’s Barry’s ghost in the back there where he is throwing some down tree stuff off the road.
Road debris
The bike ran out of gas in a good spot for Barry to clean up the road a bit while I put gas in my bike.
Powwow
My brother Tom showed up in his side by side so we had a powwow for a bit.
After that we all headed for home.
And I had a nap and Barry took off for home.
I’d planned to work on the van but decided it’d be better to wait until tomorrow to get a fresh start on it.
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.
