That's my old Minolta Dimage Z1 that I purchased for our first visit to Mazatlan in the the year 2000. I've taken literally thousands of pictures with it and kept it in the boat with me and taken it everywhere since I started this blog in 2009. And yes...that would be caked on salmon eggs that you see on the handle. The camera has 10 power optical zoom and 40 more power digital zoom and it has two ways to shoot, either with the screen or with a viewfinder which I prefer as it helps you aim when you use a lot of zoom. Also the camera being 25 years old has only 3.2 mega pixels of definition which for me is nice in that I don't have to manipulate the pics to post them on the blog or Facebook .......Well me and MPeasy went to Freeze Out Lake to do our new yearly bird watching trip and I got one shot in and the camera told me my SD card was full. For some reason the camera will not work with the new micro SD cards on an adapter so I'm stuck with the 1 gigabyte card that's been in it since 2015, ten years ago. So the other day as I watched the Seattle Mariners struggle through what can barely pass as a baseball game as they start another season I went through the card and deleted doubles and poor pictures.....and there were a lot of them . BUT, there were also some real beauties that I'm going to share on this edition of Mile 14 . First a short list of my thinking....this won't take long naturally.
1. find something interesting...and what's more interesting than fish ? right ?
2. Take a lot of pics
3. focus on the subject then move it to the side. don't want it always centered.
4. put the light to your back.
5. Don't abuse your zoom. a lot of it you can do with your computer instead.
Park Rangers being Park Rangers...what else can say. does the lady in the back ground look kinda guilty ?
A cute lady with a fish on.
An Eagle on Eagle Rock...now that's the only time I ever saw that and you know I have thousands of hours on the world famous and have boated by that rock hundreds and hundreds of times.
Catching Trumpeter Swans ( or any birds for that matter ) in flight is a good trick.
It's the morning....full of promise and a nice reflection.
You can see how the salmon eggs got on the camera.
Don't ever clean your bait bucket.
Lighting...the flash...a nice pesca...Keith Holtan
Got the light right on that one too.
Now that's unusual....ya can't go wrong with wildlife.
Sunrise...sunset....H2o....
A jeez...not another $%^#* Park Ranger.
Here's to looking at ya....
Is that baby smoking ????
It rains a bit on the world famous.
That pic makes me cold...
Me with the new boat...let me count....ahhh....the Minnow 7
Spent my life in that baby ....the Minnow 6.......Hope ya enjoyed the pics....Walleye season is right around the corner so I hope ya come back....
Don't ever clean your bait bucket.
