I finally found my lovely Ricoh GR Digital II again – after looking for it for over two years. Somehow it had made its way into the basement, on top of a cabinet.
My favourite street photography camera. There’s faster and better out there by now, but I still love the original. I use this camera exclusively to shoot square format b/w.
Today I took my new Canadian Tire bought, Big Green Egg inspired but for half the money, Vision Grill for a first test smoke. I had picked up a nice piece of pork shoulder from Peter Sanagan’s Meat Locker, which got a rub with a mix of coriander, smoked paprika and chipotle powder.
I mixed wet wood chips with the charcoal, covered the bottom of the firebowl evenly, then lit one side. I set the air in and outlets to the suggested values and within 10 minutes the grill had reached about 230ยบ. Which it them proceeded to hold, on the same load of charcoal, for nine hours.
The resulting pulled pork was awesome; moist, smoky and tender. I served it with Joe Beef’s Redneck BBQ Sauce – Coca Cola, Ketchup and instant coffee, which was pretty awesome.
Shot with an old Polaroid 100, which admittedly doesn’t focus on anything closer than 10ft. Ever. But who cares, I was after shapes and colour.
Part of the let’s-upgrade-our-photo-skills mission we’ve got going at work is a competition. Everybody gets handed a Pentax K1000 and a roll of Ilford HP5. People have one week to shoot 36 images that need to be connected by a theme.
I walk to work whenever possible, a pleasant 30 minute stroll down Queen West and through Trinity Bellwood Park, which will be my theme for my entries.
Got this from the Yashica Guy, for an utterly reasonable $17.00, including a fresh battery. Awesome. This means I can use the Electro 35 with a modern battery.
This is a fantastic idea. Like many of my foodie friends I own a large library of cookery and recipe books. A library I don’t have access to when I am out and about, or shopping for ingredients.
Enter Eat your Books, an online database that makes the recipe books you own searchable, wherever you happen to be.
Try it out with five free books, if you see value in it then upgrade to the unlimited plan for $25.00/year.
Just had lunch with my wife in a new pizza place on Queen West and saw this. Nicely presented, with just a hint of varnish. The pizza was good too.
