Red Ring Tupperware Party, Unabridged (18)

MooEvening All...

Couple of snaps from a local arboretum visit today.

Hey Julian -- well, it didn't turn out so well, hit or miss, I'm not sure what I expected. I had to act real quickly as the train was already going by and tried to focus and track cars as they appoached. I'll have to do a more prepared shoot so I'm not rushing and I get a better feel of things. Oh well.

Timphoto wrote in post #12104694
Did you have french fries with mayo on the side?

<<-- Secretly loves fries with mayo.

tonylong wrote in post #12105688
Hey Julian -- well, it didn't turn out so well, hit or miss, I'm not sure what I expected. I had to act real quickly as the train was already going by and tried to focus and track cars as they appoached. I'll have to do a more prepared shoot so I'm not rushing and I get a better feel of things. Oh well.

That's cool. There's always next time.

jdizzle wrote in post #12105713
That's cool. There's always next time.

Yup. Still, it's the first time I've tried that with the 85L, wish I had been able to nail things!

gjl711 wrote in post #12105700
<<-- Secretly loves fries with mayo.

<---- Openly loves fries with mayo+ketchup! MMMMMmmmmm

When I first heard about fries with mayo from my cousins, I can't say it was something I looked forward to trying. Tried it with just mayo...meh! Doused the mayo with some ketchup and loved it. Good stuff.

Timphoto wrote in post #12105989
When I first heard about fries with mayo from my cousins, I can't say it was something I looked forward to trying. Tried it with just mayo...meh! Doused the mayo with some ketchup and loved it. Good stuff.

I've eaten fries with mayo and with vinegar. And, I grew up eating artichokes with ketchup and mayo.

But, in recent years my "sauce of choice" for both fries and burgers has been a mix of mayo and AI Steak Sauce -- I ask for the steak sauce when going to some place like Red Robin for a burger. It's gotta be AI! 'Course the only mayo I'll buy for myself is Best Foods...

Chicken Jambalaya is smelling very nice, but I have to wait another 2hrs before I can eat it. I ended up precooking the rice in stock and smoky sauce and then adding it about midday. 500g of prawns just went in now.

Fries with mayo is much like fries with Garlic Aioli..... mmmm nice.

tonylong wrote in post #12106355
But, in recent years my "sauce of choice" for both fries and burgers has been a mix of mayo and AI Steak Sauce --

My youngest does that. He loves A1 on everything.

Good morning class. Happy Monday.

good morning people

Hey, I broke out the camera this weekend. Our orchid is in bloom.

^ very nice, JJ. I wish things would start to heat up here, and blossom. The smells are lovely, not to mention the variance in colours

tonylong wrote in post #12104895
Heh! Nope!

I had business downtown both yesterday and today. Yesterday I knew I would have some free time so I packed some camera gear. I stopped at a local wetlands and was scouting out critters when I say a train coming by. I just had time to grab what was closest, my 1D3, and I realized that in the middle of a lens swap I had put the 85L on it instead of it being on my 5DC as usual. Well some of you may be glad to know that I actually shot with that setup (Julian). Anyway, I'm just now loading those shots in my laptop so we will see how the combo handled the job in AI Servo.

And, speaking of trains, in all the years I've lived here (over 20) I've never actually visited the local train station. So, I had an unexpected free hour and decided to find the dang train station. It so happened to be quite close to where I was, right in the middle of the industrial section.

Vancouver/Portland has Amtrak lines that go north to Seattle then on to Vancouver BC, South to LA California and east to Chicago, and they offer some nice packages for places like Glacier National Monument in Montana and the Grand Canyon, so it was interesting browsing there and seeing a couple trains come and go. But, I had no camera, I was planning on just a quick there and back trip, dang!

But I did find out that you can catch a trip from here to Seattle for a little as $26, which is pretty impressive since that trip by car costs close to a whole 16-gallon tank of gas for each way -- at the present cost of gas, well, thinking about $100 round trip drive!

Union Station? It's going to be a nice setting for train shots once they finish the refurb so the scaffolding gets cleared away (and if they can rearrange the fences). Good place for Tom to head when he gets tired of yellow locomotives, too. :{)#