Family, food, and photos - a perfect weekend

Family, food, and photos - a perfect weekend. My niece and bro were in town to visit our cousin's newborn baby, so we ate and drank and ate some more, built a windup zombie robot out of clay, and watched Mariana get up to all kinds of mischief. Also, check out the animated gif I made of the Zombie Robot toy.


Mariana has a staredown with a clay windup motion robot we built.


Animated gif of our Zombie Robot in action.












And introducing my cousin's 2 week old baby girl, Madeline! She's soooo tiny and adorable!








And because there's nothing more magical than polaroids, here's one shot with the SX-70 on Impossible Project Colour Film.

Fun With Photobooths!

The last time I shot a wedding, I made a vow that I would only do it again if there was a photobooth involved. So when Rob and Andrea asked me to shoot theirs, I made it happen. I'll just let the photos do the talking.





















And because this was the only time during the entire day that we had any down time, Dean and I got in on the fun as well.

Scrambles - Yamnuska

We took a short but fun scramble up Yamnuska today. 900m of elevation gain, spread over an interesting mix of forest, a rocky chute, a lengthy trudge up steep rock face, navigating a rock wall with anchored chains, and then a run down the frontside scree slopes.


















My daytime boss!


My real boss... a much more frightening woman.
















Beer at the summit... warm beer has never tasted this good.












And the best part of this hike: running down the front side scree slopes.

OM NOM NOM OYSTERS

Some people log how many steps they've taken, some people keep track of their daily exercise or their caloric intake. Us? We log our raw oyster consumption count - by type, harvest area, meatiness, shell depth, and flavour profile. Oyster nerds? Yep. Proud of it? Equally yep. We even have an Oysterpedia app on our phones.

Seafood lovers, get ready to drool. We hit up Rodney's Oyster House (recently opened in Calgary), and gorged on some delicious fresh oysters and clams, as well as steamed quahogs (large round clams), an oyster slapjack chowder, and a refreshing grilled ahi tuna salad.


Cotuit, Lameque, Beach Angel, and Pemaquid oysters, plus a couple Topneck and Countneck clams.


Large steamed quahogs in a buttery sauce. MMMMMM.


Grilled Ahi Tuna salad.

Apparently, oysters and clams are good for your heart health. Anita found something that says this on some website. So while you can't believe most of what you read on the internet, I'm going to blindly believe this 'fact' cause it means I can eat more of these lovely little guys...

And just for funzies, here are a couple animated gifs I made of ourselves chowing down on oysters last year in New York's Grand Central Station.