Tonight, did a little surf & turf for the GF.

New Yorks rubbed with garlic, rosemary paprika and peanut oil and Copper River salmon with summer savory, sweet onion, lemon and chardonnay.

All were smoked with hickory chips.

Veggies and whatnot. She liked it.

 

 

Slurp! I need a towel...
Dang! BT you're makin' me hungry... that looked good!
you say you used hickory chips eh? which chardonnay?
ever try vidallia onions?

 

my first tatto. Got it last night. In remeberance of my grandma that died last december. She was very religous and a saint in my eyes. Its a saint symbol with smoke swirling around it. I love it

 

 

OK, one more for the weekend:



Happy landings!

 

Whatever's around the house. Then it was Columbia Crest Grand Estate, but anything else worth drinking works well. Definitely not the small bottles of cooking wine that are mostly salt.

Hickory chips are my fav for beef, but I also use mesquite, alder, apple, cherry and pecan alone or combined depending on the dish.

Vidalia onions are great, tho my favs are Walla-Wallas, sort of locally grown.

There were leftovers, so to replace precious bodily fluids I sauteed the smoked salmon...



...and made omlettes with a dill-chive sour cream sauce inside for brunch:



She approved.

 

 

Passion Vine


Graffiti in Fort Hall, ID

 

Just testing out the macro feature on my new Sony H9.
The flash was on, perhaps I should have disabled it.
Kind of lit up the bugger in the second picture.

I was also about 1/2" from it, maybe I should pull back further?
Never shot in macro mode before.

 

When I shoot Macro, I will hold my hand in front of the lens at the same distance I will be shooting the object at. I depress the button half way to focus on my hand, the larger object helps my auto focus camera figure out the distance I want to focus at, then move the camera so the object is in front of the lens and finish depressing the button to take the picture.

 

Corey, I don't know Sony digicam systems. On my Minolta, I pretty much wing it on manual everything including focus, play with ISO, white balance and flash, keep shooting away and pick favs from the album later.

I think you'll find that the closer you get to the subject with an f-stop toward the bright side will get some interesting depth of field effects like FFE shows. A tripod helps, but bumping the ISO up to 400 or so will too.

 

Thanks Bob, I pretty much shoot everything on auto with any digicam I have owned.

To much work for me to do it manually, or I would have bought an SLR digital.

But I can try changing it sometime to the 400 ISO.
This camera does it all.
It is just learning how to do every thing it can do.

 

I use different auto modes, too. But since we were talking macro-only, I fire away and pick out the best shot later.

Yeah, the camera manuals will drive you nuts. Better to check out the tutorials and camera-specific forums at places like dpreview.

http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/sonyh9/

 

 

 

Observation tower on top of Mt. Mitchell

 

Overcast and flat so far today. A guy up the road leases some of his land to the sheriff's mounted unit for enough to make his house payments. Columbia River and Washington in background.

 

Man that thing sure is purty.

 

today....