Barry showed up this morning with his dirt bike. He had some news for me. A friend of his wife’s new car was coming in soon so her car would be available soon which is good as my old car just about has had it.
I had planned to butcher the roosters today, but that could wait for when we got back.
We rode up into the hills in the background of this photo.
Waterfall
We headed on up into the forest. Barry wanted to go up to the falls first so we did. The water there is slowing down some, but it’s still making a good waterfall noise.
We rode around all over the place and had to stop to get these small branches off the road. Since Barry rides first, I let him take care of them. I’ve got most of the trees cleared off the roads now, but we did run into a larger one on my cousin’s place.
Fresh water
After awhile we headed over to our main spring for a drink of water.
And then we headed to my cousin’s place, up to the ridge top so Barry could use his hammock he has up there.
After a good break there, we rode on to my cousin’s house to visit her and her husband. We spent a couple hours there shooting the bull with them which shot most of the rest of the day.
Their view looking west.
From there we headed back down to my place and Barry headed for his home.
I had planned to butcher the roosters today, but when I got home, I wasn’t into it so they got a reprieve. I fed them and went in for a nap.
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.
