I am the Burgerfan!

After stumbling across an old closeup photo of Snickers, I decided to get out my prime lens and get something more recent. Snickers was in a calm mood and seemed mostly cooperative of the camera being shoved in his face. I have a hard time working with manual focus in general, let alone a tiny range of focus (f/1.4). While this leads to many blurry photos going into the digital trash can, I’m happy to still get a few nice ones out of the lot. Thankfully this time, I culled all the out of focus ones first (with Tiffany’s help), so that I am not storing loads of photos for future me to sift through.

This was one of the first photos in the batch. Interesting how sometimes one of the first few becomes the one you like the most…

Bonus photo:

A recent purchase of a tortilla press (thanks to a cousin’s similar acquisition a few months ago) led to a much anticipated tortilla night! All of the food preparation takes time, but is well worth it. Done with people who know what they are doing ensures a delicious success.

Salsa preparation…

Alternate photo: the initial tortilla run. These were a cornflour base, and we decided to fry the rest of these instead to closer resemble more of a corn-chip type thing. We then had flour based tortillas for the fajita portion of the meal.

I took this at lunch yesterday. I dare you to set it as your desktop wallpaper for 48 hours…

Sometimes you can take photos, only to find out that nothing in the set came remotely close to your intended vision. Thankfully there’s post-processing. Too bad it can’t entirely save a bad photo.

Also, I really need to put on bug spray before heading out. Will I learn?

I went into the undeveloped field behind our place for a few minutes to get a closeup of some Canadian Geese (Canada Gooses?) doing watch duty. I managed to get all the way in and snap some photos before being mobbed by mosquitoes. But I won’t feel so guilty now when I sit down to play video games for the rest of the evening with really nice weather out.

Something I need to remember: always check the camera settings. I always assume the camera is ready and waiting in ‘P’ mode. In this case, it was on Aperture mode, around f5.6. Ugh. Not what I wanted, but good enough.

Geese on Watch

Alternate selection, with massive cropping:

Geese on Watch - Alternate

As the sun sets on another day, the back yard waits patiently for another day of fun and entertainment.

Waiting for Another Day

Alternate photo (this one was my original concept, but I liked the first one more):

Waiting for Another Day - Alternate