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| The old camera on the pylon camera mount. |
Skiing videos are wonderful tools. You can see what you are doing right. You can see what you are doing wrong. But this summer I hadn't been able to get a watchable video. Despite lots of tries, muttered bad language, and hateful looks at the idiot camera. The problem was my new camera. The video was fabulous...until I clamped it on the ski boat's camera mount. Then the video was bumpy and blurry, totally useless. I tried a number of modifications to the mount, but nothing helped. I finally accepted that its image stabilization was not as good as the old camera. My old camera was a Canon PowerShot A540 and the new one a Nikon CoolPix S6100. This week I dug out the old camera and mounted it on the pylon mount. Voila! We were back in business. So now I take two cameras out each ski day: the PowerShot for video and the CoolPix for still photos.
The weather forecast this week was spot on for temperature and rain chances. Wind direction and speed? Not so much. We went out to the lake to ski four mornings, but we only skied two of those days. The days we go out to the lake only to find the wind a problem, well, it is frustrating. But we head back, put the boat away and head out on our bikes or whatever strikes our fancy. It is the good part of being retired. Tomorrow is another day.
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| Al uses a sophisticated method to check wind speed and direction. |
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| The weatherman said no wind at dawn. But there was the beginnings of mild chop. |
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| Wednesday was beautiful dawn with minimal wind. |
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| The full moon was in the west this week before dawn. |
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| The moon above our canal as we head out to the lake. |
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