Spring has Sprung, Time to hit the road and.....One more thing....

We are ready to get back on the road again.  this Mobile home park has grown on us a bit so will be in our itinerary in future years when we want a longer term solution in Tucson. We love Tucson and feel SW (and CCT)  will be in our future winters for foreseeable future except next winter which will be in SE USA hopefully where the flipflop barometer is in positive range. hehe.

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ONE MORE THING

Olympus EM-D OM-10 Micro Four Thirds Camera

I just received the Olympus OM-D EM-10

 Micro-4/3 camera

 last week.  Called micro four thirds because the sensor size is smaller than my Canon 7 D crop sensor but larger than tiny little compact cameras.  Also the magnification is 2X which means the 14-42 mm lens in picture actually focuses at 28-80 mm. It also has interchangeable lenses which I like.  I have the camera with the small lens above.  I plan on getting a 75-300mm zoom lens for other things.   Great little portable camera for our hiking

and I can stick it in my pocket

 to always have around

. Love this little pop out lens.  It shoots raw and has Wifi.  Not too expensive.  Lusted after the OM-1 but budget held me back.

  

No, I am not switching away from my Canon Big system, just adding to repertoire.

For your consideration here, let me know your thoughts on photos below. All were shot on tripod. There seems to be good detail in each.  Click on photos to see larger one then you can click on right or left of photo to scroll through others.  Let me know what you think.

Here is a couple pix I shot in jpeg with the Oly OM-D EM-10 and tiny 14-42 lens. Oly JPG's adjusted in LR, then exported to small jpegs for email, since I cannot import the Olympus raw files yet to Lightroom(next version. 5.4 I am told), so I just used the jpeg files. Then I made same shots with my Canon 5DM3 full frame camera, in raw format.  Both were adjusted a little in LR and Photoshop. then exported as small jpeg's.  Yes, I did remove a few little things from last photo in Photoshop (the miracle software).

 Detail good in both, however, I think the Canon delivers a little more rich photo.  I photoshopped the Canon raw files and only had jpegs for Olympus at this time. Will do more tests later. I hope to use the Olympus more for this blog as it has capabilities of easily transferring photos, via Wifi, to my iPad and iPhone for blog posts.  Will see how it works.

Canon 5D Mk III 

Olympus OM-D EM-10

Canon 5D MkIII  (and photoshopped)

Olympus OM-D EM-10 with Lightroom adjustments

Silver Lake

The last morning of our photo workshop found us at sunrise over Silver Lake on the June lake loop south of Lee Vining. We waited for the sun to lightly paint the edges of Cathedral peak. Then moved down Rush creek a ways to see what fun images we could make with the light on the aspens and reflections in rush creek. Below are some iPhone photos of this area.

We are camped just north of Bishop on BLM land and experimenting with our power systems. Our new solar panel is charging the batteries well and we have heat and light but we have no means to recharge our computer, so I haven't finished processing the really good photos. Will do so later today at Starbucks. We have a tiny inverter on order so later this week should be fine for future.






- blessings from the road

Location:June lake Loop, California

Fast Car

THe first day we drove up Lee Vining Canyon we found some aspens near the road. As i was photographing them, I noticed some classic cars racing down from Tioga Pass. Was able to catch one as they zipped by.



- Blessings, Kent

Location:Lee Vining, CA