Goya Blog – Page 78 – The life and times of a true knucklehead

Noah

Shot this last night during dinner at a dimly lit Shakewell in Oakland. ISo 3200 – 1/200 – f2.8

Sow Bug/Woodlouse/Pill Bug/Roly Poly

Noticed a sow bug on the ground while I was working in the yard… So I shot em.

I can’t tell you how difficult this is. The front element of my lens (M-PE 65mm) is so close and every time it moves, I have to shift the tray then refocus. It’s a pain in the butt.

Shanky

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.

Tamron 150-600mm

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.

Birthday 2015

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.

Samage

Just on a whim I asked if I could shoot Sam. Bill quickly brought him over.

Canine Model Shoot

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.

Buggy

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.

Happy Valentines Day 2015

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.