I heard a clank out front this morning and when I looked out the window it was my brother Barry in his truck with his dirt bike so I went out to see what he was up to.
He was going for a ride up in the woods so I got my dirt bike out too.
We sat around a bit shooting the bull then Barry suited up and off we went for a ride.
Stay off the real steep stuff eh
He asked where I wanted to go. I said anywhere except the real steep stuff, so off we went.
Drink
We rode all over the property up and down and around and around before stopping at the Old Indian Spring for a drink of water.
We took off from there riding all around pretty much covering all the roads up there. We stopped here for a bit.
Rest spot
And we rode on up to the Top of the World where we take a good break and shoot the bull a bit.
Nap time
And from there we rode around some more eventually ending up back at my house. Barry took off for home and I had something to eat and a nap.
Carport
My plan for today was to get the carport cleaned out so I can park the van back in there. It’s full of tools and stuff from working on the van repairs and other projects I did this summer.
That took most of the rest of the afternoon but I did get most of it done although I still have to put away a few more things once I find a spot for them.
The van got moved to it’s spot under the carport. I’ve ordered up some parts for it and when they come in I’ll work on it under the carport.
Chair hopping
I let the chickens out into the front yard and spent the rest of the day sitting around with them enjoying the evening.
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.
