The life and times of a true knucklehead – No photos to be used without permission
While I could care less about a sporting event I did want to shoot the San Francisco City Hall with it’s 49ers colored lights, so we made it a date night in the city.
I ended up taking so long that we had to eat at Taco Bell so we could catch the ferry back home. It was a incredible date night.
Bought a crazy disco spinning LED light on Ebay to use for my backgrounds.
Just for fun I shot Sandy with a 5D3, EOS-M & a G1X. Single 600EX-RT in a med softbox camera left, white reflector camera right.
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.
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.
Had Ben & Paulette over yesterday for breakfast. We served sisig silog & pancakes. I shot a few portraits of them.
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.
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.
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.
After a huge Thanksgiving meal I asked for a portrait sitting and this is what I got.
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.
