Selling Off Excess Gear

I've listed these items here for easy online payment and shipping if that makes it easier. https://www.gearfocus.com/shop-seller/harrys-gear-shop-24173

#1 GoPro Hero 5 Black, with 2 batteries, 64GB memory card, 4 mounts, small tripod, & a pelican case. $200

#2 GoPro Hero 7 Black, with 2 batteries, 128GB memory card, 4 mounts, screen protectors, 1 plastic cage, and 1 metal cage with side holder for external mic & power accessory. $225

#3 DJI Osmo Mobile 2 with charging cable & GoPro mounting accessory. $100

#4 DJI Osmo Mobile 3 with case, bag, charging cable, & tripod. $100

$5 DJI Spark drone, with 2 batteries, 64 GB microSD card, remote control, case, 4 extra props plus one spare in the case, landing matt, package of skins, remote addon to hold phone up a better adjustable viewing angle. wall charger, and direct link data cable from remote to phone so you don't have to use WiFi to the remote. $275

Sunset Over the River

New Moment lense

Finally decided to pick up a lense from Moment. Chose the newer 58mm Tele lense for those times when I just want to get a little closer. Turns out this lense works great for portrait photos. Then if you double down and shoot in portrait mode you can get really amazing results!

Getty Images picked up one of my Photos for distribution!

This photo I took of downtown Sacramento in April last year was just picked up by Getty Images. Hope someone buys the Large size option!

Embed from Getty Images

Davinci Resolve 16 Free Version

Funny, how lately I've been using and learning Davinci Resolve 16 for my admittedly small video projects, and now the adds on this Blogger page (for me) are all from Blackmagicdesign (the creators of Davinci Resolve). It is a great video & Audio editing program and anyone can download the free version and go way beyond basic editing.  Easily replaces the Adobe program I was using and actually takes advantage of my GPU during editing and encoding the output. The Adobe program I was using never took advantage of my GPU.

Some recent photos I took that I like:

More at: https://harrycjr.smugmug.com/

A typical walk during lunch downtown.

Video I shot a year ago (August 2017) while we walked along Drakes Beach in Point Reyes National Sea Shore. I used a GoPro Session 4 and my Pixel XL. Lots of camera movement which I could now easily eliminate with a new 3 axis gimbal made for holding cell phones. But I still like how the content came together.

A Creative Couple Weeks

These last couple weeks have been unusually high in creative output at our household.  First was the Mission Delicious video conceived and developed by Anna ...

Then Julie drew this Mehndi art on a lamp shade as a gift for Laura...

 Last night I made a Soma puzzle cube from 27 - 1/2" wood cubes. Which made 7 unique puzzle pieces. Then had Anna solve the puzzle before I let her decide how to paint it.

This morning at Home Depot Anna and I made a bird house together.

Picture to follow.

Today Julie painted this Seagull on Driftwood scene.
Seagull on Driftwood Key Rack/Jewelry Organizer/Leash Rack

Then she also repainted these Lobster Pot Buoys we found on our Irish Beach vacation in July.
Lobster Pot Buoy / Nautical Decor / Beach Decor / Coastal Decor

Later on Sunday I made the frame for a 36" x 60" HardieBacker board for next mosaic Julie is planning on starting in the coming weeks.

Friends World Committee for Consultation Weekend

Spent the weekend from Friday after work until after Sunday's Church service recording videos of talks given during the Friends World Committee for Consultation conference. Our little church was one of ~4 hosting locations internationally for this event. We had originally planned on streaming live to the Church's YouTube account but ran into delayed shipping on the cameras we were going to use for this. So, we just recorded with a nice video camera and planned to edit and upload the videos after the conference. As it turns out editing is a lot of effort when you have 16-20 hours of HD video. I'm trying out just uploading to YouTube and using their web based editing tools to combine and trim each segment (the files were split into less than 4GB segments or Windows probably would have choked on them).

Case for my Nexus 10

Found this cover for my Nexus 10 back in January and it has performed great!  it sill looks as good as new and still holds my tablet firmly. I'd buy it again. It was incredibly inexpensive and with Amazon Prime it shipped fast for free!

Chicken Ranch beach in Inverness, CA

Anna posing on Chicken Ranch beach in Inverness, CA

Drobo mini looks pretty neat!

Check out this review by John P from Geek Beat! http://onemansblog.com/2013/01/27/drobo-mini-review/
Everyone needs to have a backup plan.

Waves at Sunset

Waves at Sunset, a photo by HarryCjr on Flickr.

While apparently I think one of those two photos in my last post are eye catching it seems this one is more popular, by far, from other peoples view. Even my wife thought this photo wasn't as interesting, though she isn't enamored with the Sea Fence either. The more I look at it though the more I really like it too!

Sea Ranch Photos

Here are two photos I took while visiting Sea Ranch recently. I can't decide which one is a better angle for the shot.

Click through to my flickr site and take a look at each a tittle larger and see what you think. The Light box view is a pretty good way to view photos on flickr.

California Mission Mosaic School Project

End of year school project and final report was about California Missions. Each student selected a mission to do a report on.  Anna selected Santa Ines. Instead of doing a typical model out of cardboard panels or creating a story board to go with her report we decided it would be nice to make something we could keep and display for years to come.  So, Anna made a 3'x5' tile mosaic.  We will mount this on the wall out by the pool and deck. It weighs 80+ lbs so, getting it to her school took a bit of effort.

Watch at YouTube

YouTube on Roku!? Not anymore.

I guess I missed this somewhere along the way but apparently if you own a Roku and have an existing install of the Private / unofficial YouTube channel then your still able to access YouTube on the device, but if you haven't installed the channel then new installs will not work. Apparently the developer of the channel used a video stream option that leaves out the adds. I was hoping I could add the Google Play movie channel to my Roku and rent movies from Google just like I do from Amazon. If Google prevents this then they are hampering the uptake of their movie streaming service.

Winter Beach Getaway!

Spent Sunday afternoon in Point Reyes, CA! The weather was great so we decided we needed a beach day, and drove out to Drakes Beach. On the drive down we had to stop and take a photo of these big freaky woolly long horn cows.

The temperature was perfect and we strolled along the beach looking for "sea glass". We came across a first for us, huge Elephant seals sunning themselves on the beach. I managed to get pretty close and take some photos and a short video of one of the seals.

Of course after enjoying the beach for a few hours we had  to hit our favorite restaurant in Point Reyes, Cafe Reyes for a good dinner before heading back home.
For us a visit to Point Reyes is always fun no matter the weather or time or year.

Cyanogenmod 7.2 - Android 2.3.7

Last weekend I upgraded the software on my phone to Android 2.3.7 (Gingerbread) via Cyanogenmod 7.2.0 RC1. Thanks to the developers over at XDA-developers.com who keep cranking out updates for my old HTC Eris. I didn't plan on doing any more upgrades but after dropping my phone and having some issues with the photo gallery I decided it needed a refresh and that was an opportunity to try a newer build.

Log Cabin Vacation

We just spent the last week before school in a vacation home in Junction City, CA.  Julie found a VRBO on the hillside just above the town. While the drive there was pretty long especially going straight up I5 then winding along 299 out of Redding, the time did pass quicker than I anticipated. This vacation was the first time we have deviated from choosing a costal location with easy beach access. The closest we had come to this kind of location was our Santa Barbara vacation (4/2009) which was still only 20-25 minutes from nice beach access.

Well we arrived at the cabin with a few hours of daylight left.  As we walk in the door we are greeted with a song from Big Mouth Billy Bass hanging on the wall!  During the rest of the week Billy entertained us with a little ditty often. So, we headed in, unpacked and headed out for a walking tour of the neighborhood.  The lots were large enough that you could only see a couple of other homes.  As we walked around the neighborhood, hoping to find convenient access to the river, we discovered all the neighborhood access was on private property.

I started the following morning with a run around the neighborhood, being greeted by a curious dog along the way.  Then we investigated the "town" of Junction City where we picked-up some lures to fish with and headed west along 299, which parallels the Trinity River, until we found a good access point called Pigeon Point to setup on the river and play and relax. After a couple hours we drove west on 299 to Willow Creek looking for an ice cream stop and ran into this big creature:

Bigfoot was a popular figure in all the little out croppings (too small to be called towns) up and down along 299. To the right is Anna posing with Bigfoot in Willow Creek. On the way back we found another shaded fishing hole we called Shady Bend (since it was shaded and at a bend in the river).

The following day we we headed back to shady bend and Anna took a shot at fishing.  It only took a couple of times reeling in the line before she caught her first fish!

... more to come ...