Practicing With My New Camera

A couple of months ago I bought a new camera. I bought a Sony A7III. Because of everything going on around here with the house renovation I had no time to even open the box much less practice and test it out. I finally forced myself to find the time and have been using it daily just to see what it is capable of. This camera was a huge step up for me. The camera that I was using priot to this was a Sony RX10 Model 3. There is no comparison between these 2 other than they are both cameras. There is definitely a steep learning curve for this camera but I have been watching YouTube videos and doing some reading to learn as much as I can about it. We have various bird feeders outside of our dining room windows so I have been practicing taking high speed photos of the hummingbirds and other birds that frequent those feeders. Here are a few of my first high speed peractice photos. Please note that they are not even close to be as good as the original photos. I uploaded them onto Facebook and Facebook compresses the files which takes away not only the size of the photo but some of the detail too. I downloaded and saved these back onto my computer from Facebook:

The New Windows Are In And Looking Good

It was a long hot day today. With the installation of our new windows throughout the whole house, I had to turn the ac off. The crew that came in and installed the new wimndows, Window World, did a great job. There was about 5 people in the crew and by 3PM they were finished and I had the ac back on in a flash. I took a few photos of the crew removing the old windows and a few pics of the new ones.

Today Is Window Installation Day

This morning our new windows get installed. I had to take down all of the window coverings that we had up and take off all of the hardware. Everything that might be in the installers way had to be moved so that they would have plenty of space to work in. Unfortunately the A/C has to be turned off so it will be a rather warm day inside. Once they have installed each room I will go in and put everything in its proper place and put whatever window treatment that was up before the install back up. I even had to move my sweet pepper plants out of the way on the back deck. Here are some assorted photos of this project....at least before the install: