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.
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EOS-M discontinued }:(
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 …
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 …
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 …
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.
9/11 Alan
The pandemic sucked on so many levels so I won’t enumerate on all of that. There were a few good things to come of that though. I’ve met some great neighbors and one of them is Alan. He’s been responsible for my beer education while filling me up with Costco food. A truly generous man. …
Yacht Club Sunrise
Woke up early as usual…
Gilligan’s Island
During happy hour I heard there was a boat a ground so I had to check it out. Unfortunately the light was crap. I couldn’t help but think of Gillian’s Island.
23X
Today marks our 23rd wedding anniversary. We had plans on eating out, but we canceled opting for a home cooked dinner instead.