Sat Jul 5 16:03:32 PDT 2003
Laurie and I went out the coast on Wednesday as we both had the day off. We tried flying her dad’s kite with the camera attached at Oceanside, but to say the least, it didn’t go well since the wind was strong, but gusting in multiple directions. We got it up for a few seconds at a time, but between the dual lines, gusty wind, long tail on the kite and the extra load of the camera it just wasn’t working. So we packed it up and went to get lunch in Tillamook.
- We did learn a few useful things:
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- Oceanside isn’t the best place to do it due to the cliffs causing swirling
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and unpredictable wind.
– A two-line stunt kite probably isn’t the best choice for a kite
– Recommendations to get the kite up, then attach the camera to the line now
sounds like a vastly superior way of doing things.
– The EZ Mega Cam by Ezonics has photo quality about like a inexpensive
disposable film camera. http://pooh.asric.com/gallery/KAP_1
– Ditching the camera into the sand probably isn’t very good for it and
cleaning it isn’t very easy.
Anyway, we had a fairly nice time the rest of the day. After lunch we went to Cape Lookout, walked along the beach, took some photos and after getting ice cream at the Tillamook Dairy we stopped at a couple of places along the Wilson river on our way back home and got some interesting photos.
On the evening of the 4th we hung out in the neighborhood. At the end our street there’s a bit of a field, which will get developed in a year or so I’m sure. But a number of our neighbors were out with their kids setting off fireworks and from the field we could just see the Hillsboro fireworks show over the tops of the trees. I tried playing with the manual exposure to photograph the fireworks and it turned out to be fairly easy. I got some good shots of the little ones. Unfortunately the big ones that were being set off at the Washington County Fairgrounds were a little too far away to get good photos of, but I got a couple of them as well.