Mileage: route around Maple Avenue Lake and the Wetlands, total for the day, 4.14 miles
Today I discovered that the camera in my Blackberry has a zoom feature. Good to know, since I really wanted to get pictures of the Great Blue Heron who was wading at the edges of Maple Avenue Lake. The zoom feature cannot, however, make up for the low pixels, so this juvenile GBH may not even be recognizable in the photos below. In the first one, I was able to get pretty close (he is framed between the trees in the middle of the shot):
However, once I came too close, he lifted off with those enormous wings and settled on the opposite side of the lake. In this shot, he is barely distinguishable from the rest of the flora:
Here is a much better picture that I didn’t take.
This raises the problem of cameras and the walking tour. Today I booked the walking tour with Contours. The route is called The Cleveland Way, around the North Yorkshire Moors. You can check out the link I posted on this blog. Now I have the tour set, but I wonder about the camera.
On the last several trips, I have relied on a compact HP digital camera. The pictures have been good, sometimes even spectacular, but the possibility of missing something as beautiful as the Great Blue Heron makes me think about a Canon or Nikon digital SLR. If I save money on hotels and transport, could I invest in the right camera?
