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.
Annibirthery 2015
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.
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.
We stopped by Yosemite on the way back home. 1st stop Tuolumne Meadows.
After a lovely lunch we headed up to Olmstead Point. We had a wonderful weekend.
Flying Cormorant
Shot em with my Sony.
Spider
Found this spider playing in our shower. I have no idea the species but I figured I should shoot em.
Ozumo
Tonight we met Jim & Kelly at Ozumo in Oakland for the Japanese Beer month dinner. 6 courses and they were all wonderful. The dessert/beer combo was the big surprise.
Skunkage
Just as we were headed out the door for our evening walk Sandy quickly ran back in… I stuck my head out and saw a baby skunkbutt.
I knew the trails it traveled so just stood there with my camera knowing it didn’t have any other way to get to the backyard. The risk paid off as I got the shots.