Lol I bought a sensor cleaning kit and all it did was smudge the sensor around. I may even have scratched it, maybe. Dang.
Today is my Gotcha Day. 4 years ago, I moved in with this lady, aka Mom. At first, I didn't understand what she was looking at in that big black box, so I had to check it out. Then, I quickly realized my part was to strike a pose, so I did. I think I did well since the very first day. And it has been 4 years already.
#cat #cats #CatsOfMastodon #catstodon #photographercat #pets #pet #dslr #kitten #ragdoll #fyp #petphotography #eos #canon #canonphotography #gotchaday #kittensofmastodon
By the time we’d got back to our car on the #DulvertonToTarrSteps, I was basically spent for the day. Just one thing remained. #Dulverton is only about 10 km from #WimbelballReservoir. This #ArtificalLake was formed by the construction of a #dam. It’s not really remarkable except that this is the reservoir that feeds my home #city and so I just stopped off there to see it. You can see that it also provides recreational facilities.
I try to watch where I’m stepping, though it’s not easy if the ground gets too rough and irregular. Here, I avoided the impressive #beetle which was minding its own business.
A bit further along, some of the pine trees which have been cut down are piled up. Counting the rings, it seems that they were around 25 years old.
These #PineTrees are grown for #softwood #timber. They have been planted in a regular array, producing an interesting geometrical effect. They’re about 25-30 m tall.
Some barely living trees had become very oddly shaped in their later years.
Some #paths are little more than #mudtracks and as it had rained heavily on the previous day, #puddles remained and the ground was quite muddy… Part of the fun of #hiking, I find, is getting a bit dirty in the process.
#PublicFootpaths often go through #farmland but also sometimes through #farmyards. Walking through one of the latter, we spotted these #chickens. The #hens started to retreat to their #barn as they spotted us approaching while the #cock remained outside just to make sure we weren’t going to try anything.
The return leg of the #hike from #DulvertonToTarrSteps was significantly longer in terms of distance as it followed a meandering river on its way to #Dulverton. Here are some interesting and noteworthy features of the journey.
Things are starting to fail on my 12-year-old dSLR (a Canon 5D Mark III), and when downloading the firmware update I noticed that the model is no longer supported. Might be time to splurge on a new, mirrorless one. My birthday is in July ... #camera #photography #canon #dslr
I was gear-lusting after a fancy mirrorless camera but my DLSR convinced me to forget about it (for now) #BirdPhotography #CanonDSLR #DSLR #Photography