I've always loved the Pentax 67 and a few weeks back, while visiting my favorite camera store Camera Exposure, I noticed the most mint condition Pentax 67 II combination kit with a 100mm Macro Lens one could ever imagine.  As always, their pricing was hard to resist so, with the most intense loving eyes I could muster...Jaime felt it was a sensible business decision to go ahead with the purchase.  The camera has an adapter that gives it true 1:1 micro capabilities which I haven't used yet but so far, so great!  

I could blame a lot of things for not having a recipe on time this week (family overload, Jaime battling walking Pneumonia, Jicama and Watermelon salad not really that exciting, travelling to shoot a wedding, Mother's day, etc...) but I saw a sign today that read "no excuse is better than a bad excuse" so do not pity me.

Many people have been asking for photos of Alex... I didn't know he was such a big hit! Here are some photos of his adventures over the past couple of weeks! 

Although it may seem to my friends and family that I never sit still (true most of the time), I do fully relax when the sun goes down and I have a delicious beer and some nice music in my listening lounge.  Here I am hard at work, relaxing.  Notice the dazzling unicorn hanging in the corner, an amazing find from artist Tara Knutson while visiting a cozy little wine bar in San Francisco last year.  More on the Unicorn soon...

So for the first installment of our new weekly personal culinary challenge, I took a difficult item, something I've never made before just to keep it real.  I decided to make oven roasted Cornish game hens in a woodsy, European style.  Being this was my first effort, I'll be candid in admitting that it was challenging and I probably should've chosen something a bit more within my comfort zone for the initial endeavor... but it did pass the independent taste test of some friends and family keen to join the party. 

I took this photo several years ago on a road trip across America.  I was almost to the Ohio border, in a very rural part of the state of Pennsylvania and the weather was so gloomy.  Pennsylvania is a deceptively long state to drive through and I was getting a bit of highway hypnosis when I decided to adventure a bit off the main road to wake myself up.  It wasn't long before I found this great big barn, broke out the Widelux and took this photo.  Only 10 hours left until my final destination for the night...Chicago!

I've been going through the archives over the past few days, desperately trying to make some sense of the mass quantity of files, slides, negatives in our files and now believe what Jaime's told me all along...we take a LOT of photos.