The life and times of a true knucklehead – No photos to be used without permission
When we dined at Bodega Bay I had a great Lamb Shank dish. I liked it so much I did my best to duplicate it.
I have to say it came out great I think I nailed it. Braised in a whole bottle if Zin and 2.5 hrs later.
This year I wanted to do something different for my birthday. I wanted to relive the living under one roof, rent-a-house (Half Moon Bay) in Italy type thing. Well that didn’t quite work out so we decided on lunch instead. Luckily Rick’s friend, Francisco owns Flavors in HMB so off we went. Food was excellent, received some lovely gifts but my birthday was upstaged by Cait & Matt’s announcement. I hope to shoot engagement fotos soon.
Yes this is a composite so don’t look too closely.
I get most all my lenses used via Ebay and this Tamron 150-600mm is no exception. I’ve only had one opportunity to use it but shows promise. Of course when I use this on my 7D2 it has a 240-960mm equivalent.
This year for my birthday Sandy made reservations at the Bodega Bay Lodge. We could only stay 1 day but it was so relaxing. Their restaurant, the Duck Club was excellent. I had a superb lamb shank and Sandy had the sole in parchment paper, neither of which gave us diarrhea. The next morning we made a very slow drive down highway 1 through Point Reyes and Stinson Beach. What a wonderful way to spend a birthday.
Just on a whim I asked if I could shoot Sam. Bill quickly brought him over.
Did our regular thing. Got Koa, lather rinse repeat, pick up her crap & shoot portraits.
I wanted to get some grossly distorted wide angle shots, but she had other things on the agenda. She’s such a princess.
I’ve been sick all week and I’m going crazy with nothing to do…
Got some bugs from the backyard an asked if I could shoot a few portraits of them. They graciously agreed. This is so hard to get sharp focus as my eyesight is horrible these days.
I have to give myself these projects in order to be a more rounded fotog. So last night I had Sandy fling some wine (backyard) in an attempt to create a heartshaped pattern in honor of V-Day. This is not original, I got the idea from Gavin Hoey via the Adorama channel on youtube. This is a 1 speedlite, 5 shot composite.
And no it wasn’t actually wine.
Later in the evening we had Arlene over for a Hamachi Kama dinner.
Sylvia a family friend, asked me to photograph her glass art work. Thinking it would be a snap I quickly agreed. I found out the hard way that shooting glass is really difficult. Her work is beautiful so I wanted to do it justice. The wave sculpture below would not accept any side light as it would cast shadows in between the blue vertical stripes. In the end I used butterfly lighting.
I learned a lot and if there is a next time maybe it won’t take me 3 hrs. Sylvia generously gave me several sweet treats and a lovely glass platter as a reward. This is lit from below via an LED panel with a piece of diffusion plastic in between. Fill was then provided from above.
For the cityscape I setup side lighting to get a rim on the edges of the buildings to give it depth.
