Maine Day 3 - Kittery and Beyond

Kittery Outlets, Kittery Maine

Today was a slow day. We did not do much worth talking about. We drove to Kittery to the outlet stores.

They wanted to go to the Trading Post and see what it was like. When we walked in I was blown away by how much stuff was in the building.

It was three floors packed with stuff from clothing, hunting, camping, fishing, food, and tons more. We spent a good two hours or more looking around at all the stuff.

I had a lot of fun just looking at all the crazy stuff they had. If I had the money I probably would have bought some ok the crazy items for family members.

Rifle BBQ Lighter

Heron/Egret Wood Carving

Lobster Wood Carving

Old Orchard Beach

Once we were done at the Trading post and had lunch we decided our next location was going to be Old Orchard Beach. My brother wanted to see if we could find some Piper Plovers.

When I was reading about them online I mistook what an article said and thought that they leave after a certain time of the year. This lead to my mistake of leaving my camera and telephoto lens behind in the car and just taking a 50mm lens.

The weather was bad with a constant mist blowing about. I figured if any Plovers were here they would be in hiding. Yet I was wrong again and we did finally come across two Piper Plovers running around on the beach.

No matter what I tried I could not get anywhere near them that a 50mm lens would make a decent picture.

While walking the beach after playing hide and seek with the Plovers we came across all kinds of thing strewn about. We came across a dead decaying seagull and many crab claws plus a lobster claw.

Claws at Old Orchard Beach

Old Orchard Beach

 Misty Day at Old Orchard Beach

L.L. Bean

After we finished at the beach we headed back to L.L. Beans again to pick up a small backpack for a hike we will be doing later this week on Deer Isle.

I shot more video for my YouTube channel while in there. If you want to check it out you can head over to my channel and see all the videos I have done for this trip.

L.L. Bean

What do you think?

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Bad weather...or is it??

So again I have a day off where I wanted to go out and shoot. I got all my gear charged, prepped, and set to go then I do something stupid. I look up the weather. It said that today was going to be a wet day raining in the morning till afternoon. Stupid me believing that put away my gear and decided to sleep in a little since I wasn't feeling al that well anyway. I wake up and guess what! NO RAIN! Now it says its going to come later in the day. So I again wasted a day to go out and shoot.

So here is a question for you all. What weather app or service do you use to predict whether you are going out to shoot or not and how accurate is it?

So I guess since I wasted most of the day I might as well work on some videos I need to edit for my YouTube Channel lol.

Night Time-Lapse of Winter Storm Thor

After my first TL of Winter Storm Thor during the day I decided to get a night TL a try.
It wasn't a very long one since I changed the shot time from 10sec to 30sec and I tried some video before that so the batteries were already getting low.
I had to lighten it up a little bit, but it didn't come out to bad.

Shot with GoPro Hero3 White Edition: Amazon
Battery Pack: Amazon


Snow Time Lapse of Winter Storm Thor

The biggest winter storm to hit the East Coats this year named Thor. Since it was my day off what better way to spend it by putting my GoPro out in the storm and seeing what it can do.
The only downside to it being out there is that it got snow on the housing and during the TL you see it as drops that do roll off.
Still it was a fun experiment and also while it was shooting gave me time to look up more about iMovie.
This whole video and intro/ending was made in iMovie. I was my first attempt at using a Mac video editor. All the other videos before this one were done on a windows editor.

So sit back and enjoy.

If you are interested in the GoPro like I used, check out this link to get one yourself. Its worth it IMO.

GoPro Hero3 White Edition: Amazon
GoPro Hero3 battery Pack: Amazon

Photo Contest

Hey guys I entered a photo contest on The Weather Channel (weather.com). The voting has stated today so if you have a free moment would you please go vote for one of my pictures. You can vote once every 24 hours. Here are the pictures I entered. Just click on them and it will take you to the voting page.