This past long weekend

Spent Saturday at Sandbanks Provincial Park and got pretty sun burnt.  Sunday was spent recovering from the excessive sunburn.  I only took my Sony RX100 Mark VI with me.  I can hide it pretty much anywhere.  And I can take pictures like this in seconds:

Monday was spent in Watertown in upstate New York.  The mall was pretty empty since it was a Monday.  I honestly love editing the Sony RX100 Mark VI shots on my 2018 Apple iPad Pro.  Simple software like Pixelmator Pro and Darkroom can edit pretty much any photo quickly and efficiently.  Love my life.  :) 

Niagara Falls - Canadian side

Yes, the Canadian side of Niagara Falls is much nicer looking then the U.S. side.  The girlfriend booked a hotel in 3 weeks so we're going to Niagara Falls in the winter.  It's hopefully going to be warm but I doubt it with this polar vortex hanging around eastern Canada.  But it's only going to be the weekend and we'll be in the hotel for the most part.  It'll be nice to take pictures of the frozen falls and something that's not photographed much by anyone else as it's too cold.  

That's why I love the Sony RX100 Mark VI.  It's such a small and versatile camera which shoots fantastic footage and photographs.  It's actually a better camera when the person using it knows how to use it and take magnificent footage and photos.  I want to shoot the falls in 4k.

I think in the next week I will be buying the 2018 iPad Pro with the 1TB hard drive and the 6GB of RAM.  My early 2013 MacBook Pro can't handle 4k video files and my 2018 Windows computer doesn't have the software to edit video.  And I really don't want to spend money on the Windows laptop to upgrade the memory and second hard drive from a 5400RPM 1TB HD to a 1TB SSD.  I could also upgrade the RAM from 16GB to 32GB.  But I really don't want to spend another few hundred dollars on the laptop.

But yeah, I'm looking forward to shooting Niagara Falls and spending some time with the girlfriend.

Are stock agencies worth it?

For me?  The only one that sells daily is Shutterstock.  Of course in small amounts unless I sell a video.  Unless that video sells for a whopping $1.50.  Video sales are rare.  Higher prices photos are rare as well.  I think it's time I start printing again and start selling my prints at art shows located here in Ottawa.  But we'll be moving soon to Calgary so we'll see what the photography scene is like in Calgary.  I know once I get out there, I'll be in the mountains pretty much every weekend.

Weather here in Ottawa sucks this week and will continue to suck for the rest of the month.  Time to take out the camera and go for a winter drive on the weekend.

On the topic of other agencies such as Bigstock, Canstock, Dreamstime etc.  I never really did well there to justify uploading more content.  It takes forever to upload, keyword and submit content for a sale here and there.  I do make the odd sale but not enough to justify the constant uploading.  That's why I just upload to Shutterstock, Pond5 and Storyblocks.  At least with the sales I do make there, I make payout.  Other sites, I wait and wait for payouts.  So not worth it.

Actually went flying tonight

Finally flew the DJI Spark at dusk today.  I'll have to view the video once I get them off the micro SD card but it will be interesting to see how well the footage turns out from the DJI Spark.  Took a few photos as well.  From the Apple iPhone 8 Plus, the footage and photos looked a bit noisy but I an fix that in post.

The rest of the weekends sounds like it's going to crap weather wise with 90% chance of rain for both Sunday and Monday.  So the girlfriend and I are planning on just going to church tomorrow in the morning and a movie in the afternoon.  Monday I want to pretty much read a few books and just relax.

This is way too...

...early to be up n a Saturday morning.  I've been up since 5am.  That is all.

Will be heading to...

...Sandbanks Provincial Park near Kingston, Ontario this weekend.  I will be taking the drone and cameras.  Hopefully the weather will co-operate and my back will be ok.  The last time we went, my back pretty much spasmed out and we had to go to the hospital for the back pain.  I could not sleep on my back and it was really uncomfortable.  Luckily we went to the chiropractor and my back seems to be ok.

On a side note, Google in its infinite wisdom does not support the blogger app in the Apple app store.  So I'm looking for a blogging IOS app which is cheap and good.  Let me know in the comments section please.   Thanks everyone and have a good weekend.  Especially the long weekend here in Ontario.