Wicked Weekend.

How am I feeling you ask... Not better. But we wont go into that. Hoping this week will let me feel well enough to work. You know you are supposed to have a massive amount of party fun to feel like this.

Well I did have fun but .... well you know what I mean. I missed a bunch of outtake pictures from my phone so I am going to post those below but first.....

I ran into some interesting things on the internets and I wanted to share a few... after my comments yesterday of there being nothing out there tech wise that is worth spending hard earned money on....okay so these aren't to spend money on unless you don't have a D7100 Nikon yet. But I digress..

Distopian artwork.. Amazing... very surreal. Impressive.

This guy is great. I watched his whole youtube video on the settings of the 7100. He is comfortable, interesting, clear and concise with a bit of humanness in there. I have watched a lot of youtube videos on this subject and his was the best of the best. I have the web link saved so I can refer back to it when I need to.

His link... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTTBp2ZyHWs

The Nikon D7100 is the peak of DX cameras. I bought it while owning two D300s. Why? Because this camera was 24 mpix and had almost all the bells and whistles of the D300. It did have video on the top but I don't care about that. What was not quite apparent is that the 7100 has a damn lot of whistles and bells too tucked into multi switch layers and menus. The video above clearly shows how to get to all the settings I need.

Surprisingly I have specific setting that I want and I get very upset when they aren't set right or the camera wont do what I want it to do. I want a single focal point that I can lock that focus on, recompose and shoot multiple shots. I want my RAW and jpeg at the finest and highest quality I can get. I use auto ISO until I don't and then I want to be able to change that quickly.. and I found out how to do that with one push and a twist. No digging through multi level menus as in the D300. I love the D300 and they are set exactly like I like but its quite a difference on how to do that from the 7100.

Since I am planning on traveling soon .. home first then elsewhere I want to make sure I can get from program mode and into aperture and manual modes quickly without having to reset a bunch of stuff. I want a lot of little tricks for setting up for long exposure shots and also some Night shooting. So far so good. I still need to make up some quick notes in my phone so I can refer to it. I do also want to pick up another lens. I may borrow one before I go..maybe a Nikkor 18 to 300 or 50mm with excellent low light settings. Tripods I have.. a good sturdy manfrotto a cheap tripod, carbon fiber mono pod and a gorilla grip. I am good there. Each for its needs. I will go into how and what I want to do maybe tomorrow.... Its going to be a multi layered shootout in the OK corral. Ill splain later.

I ran across this and it made me laugh out loud... heavily....I may have figuratively fallen on the floor too. I do really hope there was a pillow on the floor for the poor thing but damn if it was not a rib cracker. You can just see the thought process... Light... outside.. I can get there.. leap... fail....Then.. THEN!!! He tries again!... And AGAIN!... It has to be a male rabbit.

Oh the poor rabbit. 

Yes I know its a Gif. 

Here are the shots I took on my phone cam ( 13 mpix ) on Saturday that I failed to post anywhere.

Morning coffee stop.

 Turbulent skies in the background. I have stopped dispensing money into Starbucks company but I will buy one when I go out to fly or crew.. few and far between.

Resting View.

Parked on the side road watching the balloons show up at the field we fly out of. windows down. Cool morning air with that sage smell wafting..music playing... Not a bad start to a day.

A quick clip of video staring at the Sandias with Tangerine Dream playing in the background. No Selfies..... yet.

One of the bummer things on the mesa is the un-biodegradable trash.. not a lot but enough to irritate.

That selfie.... Yeah..... I forgot I did this..... makes me laugh.

Ill try not to do more of those...

My facebook banner for the day was pretty much due to the ill feelings getting to my stomach and out of my head.. so head is kinda clear but now my stomach is very very upset. Sigh.

Day 152. Have to buy springs.. have to have them installed. Really have to do a trailer sticker.

I am .. really.....

I wonder chicken? Maybe some ice cream? Maybe just the ice cream????