Wednesday December 6th 2017

Today started out cooler than Tuesday but ended up a little warmer in the low sixties. The wind was much calmer too. I took advantage of the nice sunny afternoon to get some more experience with my new Sony Alpha 6000 camera.

I took the camera and the 55-210mm lens to the Wetlands Park for some practice with the longer lens. I took about 40 pictures of various things. The wildlife was a little less visible today than on past visits. I suspect the overall cooler temperatures are keeping the birds back in the reeds. I continue to appreciate the speed of this camera. The time to compose, auto focus and expose is much quicker than my point and shoot. I almost got a good stop action shot of a duck landing in the pond. The sun angle combined with my slow reaction time didn’t help the shot, but I wouldn’t have had a chance with my point and shoot. The following are some of the pictures I took.

The color on the turtle is much clearer than a similar shot I took last month with my point and shoot camera.

Mountain to the east of the Las Vegas valley.

The green color of the reeds really stands out behind this duck.

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This is my attempt to catch the ducks landing. I didn’t really get the camera aimed in time and the sun is in the wrong place for a good shot.

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On the way back to the RV park I stopped at Sam’s Town Casino for the senior day gambling. On Wednesday’s people over fifty can earn more points, participate in a drawing for cash or free plan and get cheap to free buffet meals. I didn’t win anything but I did get a free dinner buffet out of the visit. The buffet was good, but I didn’t find any vegetables until I was ready for desert. My dinner was prime rib, a hamburger, a baked potato and some dressing. I’m pretty sure the carrots I saw on my way to the desert station weren’t available when I made my first pass. For desert I had chocolate cream pie not vegetables. Overall a very good dinner.