Took a friend, his girl friend and she has a 16 year old Japanese Foreign exchange student for a desert ride over the weekend.  Rough country, But a real eye opener for the foreign exchange student.

He didn't put his camera away the whole trip.

It was a good weekend to get out.

The nice part was most of the snow has melted down there, So we can ride. Up closer to home we still have too much snow.

Horses are just starting to shed. So they are pretty wooly and they worked up a sweat.

The mares were splashing a lot in the river trying to cool off.

Besides the rocks and cliffs. We were in the river bottoms, So lots of brush to find our way through

I have a tendency to destroy or loose a camera about once a year. So I usually don't spend a lot of money on them.  All it takes is a froggy horse on a rough trail and the little point and shoot camera in my shirt pocket seems to disappear and 30 minutes later when I notice it's missing, I'm trying to remember where we were when I got bounced around in the saddle, or where I had to duck under a low hanging limb or who knows what causes those cameras to migrate out of my pockets. 

I really don't enjoy trying to carry a larger camera. Don't want one banging against my chest as we trot or canter, And if it's big enough that it needs to be put in the saddle bags, I won't get it out and take the pictures. So I've always bought something small enough to fit in the shirt pocket.

I spent a little more on this camera and it does take nicer photos than some of the previous cameras that I've owned.

This one is a Canon SX260 HS.  And I can see a definite difference in the clarity of the photos from my old Canon SX150. I'm glad I spent almost twice the price and am working hard at not loosing this one.