Woke up early but to my frustration, no color.


The life and times of a true knucklehead – No photos to be used without permission
Woke up early but to my frustration, no color.
With all the bad 💩 that’s happening I needed something to cheer me up, so as an ongoing project I scheduled a few shoots with our neighbors for Christmas cards.
For us the sunset was horrible, but we had a limited number of weekend days before Christmas so we decided to go at the last minute. Sandy found a tree near the ferry terminal that had sort of a Christmas tree shape, so we brought some lights.
We got our communication mixed up so it was a bit too late in the evening to shoot Paul & Brenda, but I captured a great shot of them.
We had a great time with Tom, Marika, Keira, Dominic & Marcus, even if the street lights didn’t cooperate.
Eike & Spencer was my final shoot. Eike was the inspiration for this one. Our original shoot date was raining and she gave me the umbrella idea. Although as Sandy pointed out the umbrella looks a bit odd without any rain.
Inside the Westcott 7ft umbrella housed 2 Godox V1s & a strip light at their feet for a bit of fill.
I am trying to go out and shoot more than usual. Today I visited Martin Luther King shoreline park (would love to shoot an owl) and later to Mulford Point park.
If there is an asymmetrical tree in front of a setting sun I will find it.
On my walk last night I saw this tree and I liked the shape… or am I getting desperate to photograph something, anything.
While online shopping we found this…
Color in the sky this evening was nice so I ran out, but shot the same old things at least 153 times before.
This year Thanksgiving was very different. We just stayed at home the 2 of us. I still got to grill my spatchcocked burd, but gone were those obnoxious kids running and yelling all over the damn place… although I do miss that.
As mentioned previously I roasted the purple potatoes (a new technique). The water turned green when I boiled em, that scared the sh*t outta me… not enough that I wouldn’t eat em though.
The rest of the weekend consisted of leftovers. I did make my 1st attempt at Omurice (needs work) and we got some great desserts from your neighbors.
I finally dug up my purple potatoes that I started Aug 1st. I’m glad I don’t have to to do this to survive as its not exactly a bumper crop. Nonetheless we will enjoy them for Thanksgiving later this week.
This morning we had a survival drill. We ate SPAM that had a best by date of November 2018. I believe SPAM will last at least 20 years, but if I am wrong and don’t post anything tomorrow call 911.
In keeping with this theme. I also found a can of tuna fish that had a best by date of June 2018.
Sometimes I run down to the shore and there is nothing to shoot. So I end up sitting on a log watching the clouds swallow up the sun.