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Yesterday I came home 9 p.m. and was really tired, since I’ve been away all weekend and didn’t sleep too much. So I took the opportunity to take a bike ride and try out the camera tripod I bought. First I stopped by a lake and took some pictures, but it was booring so I continued. Just as I reached 47.13 km/h (no I didn’t look at my cycle computer, it was the max speed when I checked afterwards) a deer showed up just 2-3 meters from the road. So I had to stop of course and take a photo of it, but that didn’t work since it escaped before I was able to get close enough to shoot him (photographically of course). But when I was about to leave I spotted two other deers, but they were too far away to be shootable in the poor light. So there I was trying to shoot some deers, one hare, with loads of bats flying over my head. I enjoyed it but night photographing isn’t easy by any means. However, I moved along and found a wooden tower that was perfect for some tripod testing. The level of details you get by just keeping the shutter open for 8 seconds is amazing. Unfortunately my super cheap tripod was not tall enough so the tower got in the way of some shots, but at least I know that it works. On my return home I saw another deer that crossed the road just a couple of meters in front of me. But it snuck away into the forest before I could shoot it (yes, still photographically, who do you take me for?).