Last Sunday Chris threw a surprise birthday party for Tami at la Penca Azul. Lighting conditions were difficult. I was bouncing my flash but the colored walls & ceiling were giving my pix a strange color.
Happy Birthday Tami
RIP Judy
Today tragedy fell upon us as our beloved Judy Burd passed away. By our best estimate she was about 20 years old. While she and I never quite got along, she was usually my 1st subject whenever I got a new camera or lens. About the only interaction we had was the UFC game, whereas I would thrust my elbow at her and she would attack it with a soft bite and a protesting scream. She has been featured in my blog a number of times starting from August 2007 (do a search on “Judy”). She will be missed.
Dr B’s…
Had Ben & Paulette over yesterday for breakfast. We served sisig silog & pancakes. I shot a few portraits of them.
Brown Sugar Kitchen
This morning we met up with Teddy & Christine to have breakfast at Brown Sugar Kitchen in Oakland. We just had to try the chicken & waffles.
Thanksgiving 2012
Had the in-laws over this year and had a great time. Sandy made an incredible corn bread, her famous curried cashew salad, cranberry sauce, oven roasted squash & a double layer pumpkin cheesecake. I did a flat bread pizza appetizer, a parsnip puree and deep fried a turkey and didn’t take a single picture of the food! What a photographer I am.
Family get together
I was able to get together with family last Friday for a little holiday lunch. I haven’t seen Jon in what seem like 2o years! I chose Bocanova as I’ve walked by a few times and always wanted to try ’em. The food was excellent as was the company. I have to bring Sandy there.
Pilipino Portraits
After a huge Thanksgiving meal I asked for a portrait sitting and this is what I got.
Canon EOS M arrives
The Canon EOS M was a long time in coming. I have such a problem with the weight of my big cameras. It’s been back ordered since July & I’ve been chomping at the bit for this one. I’m hoping that I can use this as a mini portrait machine. It’ll take all my Canon lenses (with an EF lens adapter) and can control all of my speedlites both optically and and radio waves. Meanwhile I’ve been testing it for the past few days. I do like the shallow depth of field I can achieve on this.
Alicia & Daniel’s Birthdaze
Yesterday we were invited to Daniel & Alicia’s Birthday at John’s Incredible Pizza in Roseville. It was a sensory overload. I can understand why all the kids were so excited.
Later we went to Lincoln Estates Park for some portraits.
I learned a lot as I usually do on every one of these shoots. I have an appointment for a vasectomy next week, just joking! I had to keep lowering my shutter speed to bring the background in but the motion blur was killing me. Tripod next time!
Creature of the Sea
Our schedules were not in sync for Halloween so I asked the Yuens to bring Noah out tonight to the local beach. I figured that would be the perfect place to capture a photo of the famed Alameda Baby Teal Octopus. In keeping up with the sea theme they bought me dinner at Angel Fish, thanks guys.
