Goya Blog – Page 11 – The life and times of a true knucklehead

AlaMo Dinner

We started a tradition of having dinner with Alan & Mona about this time last year. So this year we hosted with a steak meal.

Thanks to Sandy for the photos.

Thanksgiving 2023

This year we invaded the Yuen house. Sandy made a burrata appetizer and lumpia. I made baguettes and a butternut squash cheesecake. As usual I didn’t take enough photos.

Thanks to Sandy for the additional photos.

Sun/Moon set

Shot a sunset and a moonset a couple of days apart.

Oakland Dinner

Seems like years since we have all been together.

Thanks to Jim for the photos.

American Century Plant

While on a morning walk I snapped a quick photo of this American Century Plant that must have been 20 feet tall. The intention was to come back during sunset. Well sunset wasn’t very good.

I try not to write about hardware as I don’t feel it makes much of a difference these days. Many years ago I stopped buying the latest and greatest cameras. Recently I’ve settled in on the smaller APC-C ones. For fast moving subjects definitely the Sony A6600, but for everything else my trusty Canon EOS-M6 mk II. This 33MP camera came out in 2019 and the extra pixels comes in handy when I have to crop. Sadly today Canon finally discontinued the EOS-M line.

Collecting dust is my 2017 Canon G1X mk III and the 2019 Sony RX100 VII, along with it’s full frame brother the 2015 RX1RII.

Blue Angels 2023

Every year I get lazier than the previous year. I thought it would better to go as late as possible to avoid burning in the sun. I only had about 20 seconds to prepare for this shot on Saturday.

Sunday I brought a different camera to get right under the action, but forgot to bring the viewfinder. Sometimes I really suck at this photography thing.

Sunrise Stroll

The sunrise looked promising on my morning walk so I ran out.

Smoking Brisket Island

Tom offered up a brisket that he didn’t have time to cook. I agreed thinking it was gonna be a flat. To my surprise it was a whole brisket, 11 lbs of beef! It was too big for my dutch oven so I cut it in half thinking I was going to do one in the oven and one on the grill. I couldn’t find the ingredients for the pomegranate braised version so I did both on the grill. I was naive and started it at 1:00 PM, which means I was smoking well into the night. The flat didn’t turn out as tender as I wanted, but the point side so excellent. Not bad for a 1st time.

We had brisket, rice & brussel sprouts for dinner. Thanks Tom.

Mothra

I was alerted to a very large Humming Bird Moth during happy hour, so I snapped a quick photo with my phone. I then brought it home and was able to properly photograph it, but in my old age I got lazy and didn’t do a focus stack.