Goya Blog – Page 69 – The life and times of a true knucklehead

Hawkish

Did my usual morning thing. Coffee in one hand camera in the other. Noticed 2 hawks go back and forth diving into the field. So I ran out there and attempted to get a little closer. I don’t know if it is a Coopers or Redtail Hawk.

Bugging

Found a bug in our trash, so I shot em. Needless to say it looked nothing like this to the naked eye, but on a macro level all the details come to light.

Annibirthery 2015

August is a busy month as we celebrate Rick, Jon & Ethan’s birthday. Wedding anniversaries for the Yuen’s, Kung’s & us. This year we went to NOLA in Palo Alto.

Perbacco

Been wanting to come here for quite awhile, so after my Canon Macro class (right across the street) we had a lovely dinner.

Dragonfly

Next week Saturday I will be attending a Canon Live class on macro photography. How appropriate that today I would come across a dragonfly in the backyard. I shot em with natural & artificial light.

Your fly is down

Caught this huge fly fornicating on my guava tree so I caught em and shot em.

MP-E 65mm f/2.8 1-5x Macro with a MT-24EX flash.

Barin Reunion 2015

This year’s reunion was here in San Francisco. Friday night was the dinner party at the Hilton by SFO.

The family was so big I had to shoot a 2 photo pano. I had forgotten to bring an omnidirectional light modifier and only had a softbox. No stress there.

Saturday was the picnic at Frontierland in Pacifica.

June Lake 2015

Our neighbors Paul & Brenda were gracious enough to invite us to their cabin at June Lake this past weekend.

Silver Lake

Sunday was church day in Lee Vining.

While the others were at church, I shot some beat up old houses nearby.

Then it was on to Mono Lake. A very unusual place. Highly recommended, just go there when the light is good.

Back to the cabin for happy hour.

They call this the Jesus rock (above). Can you see the profile?

We also took a very relaxing trip on rafts into June Lake. I almost died as I tried to jump into the raft and went face 1st into the 3 ft deep stream. What do friends do when you have a life threatening experience, point & laugh or grab a photo? They did both.