Today's sunrise was pretty good:
The whole morning was overcast and windy, with a high of only 68°F in the afternoon, it wasn't the most inviting weather!
Around 2:30 pm or so though, the clouds cleared out enough to allow the sun to shine through and make me decide to try the hike into Palm Canyon.
I rode Yagi the 5.7 mi to the trailhead for Palm Canyon, I'd seen one hiker coming out and I had the place to myself until I was done taking pictures. The hike itself is not hard but it is uphill most of the way, with lots of loose rocks and a narrow trail, I was huffing and puffing but not as bad as I remember the last time I did this.
I set up the tripod and mounted the binos with the camera phone adapter to them. Here's some of the shots that turned out. The handheld shots were too blurry to publish so I am glad I brought the tripod.
The process remains fiddly when the tripod is involved. Especially since the tripod I travel with is not as stable or as fine in terms of controls as the big tripod that I left at home.
Still, the images came out pretty good as long as you don't blow them up too much when viewing them.
This is the best I could do with a real camera back in December of 2017:
Back at Yagi, I geared up as a couple showed up in a Jeep to do the hike. I rode back to the campsite with no issues, broke down all the outside equipment and packed it away. I will be displacing to the Gila Bend area tomorrow.
4 comments:
The system with the binoculars is working pretty good. Quite interesting there are palm trees out there.
Still a bit fiddly, Oz, but I am getting the hang of it. I do wonder how the palm trees got there originally. I'm thinking perhaps their seeds were spread by birds?
That sounds like a feasible theory.
I asked Google Gemini AI....there's apparently 3 main theories, and my guess is part of one of them. Interesting stuff.
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