Wifey and went to the Golden One Center to check out several basketball teams. We were able to watch the Kings, Warriors, Heat and Lakers rookies battle it all out for the first game of the season. It was cool since this was my first visit to the new to me stadium.The photo below was Bagley’s very first dunk in an NBA game. I took this using a Fuji X100F since you’re not allowed to bring a camera into the arena with a removable lens. Th X100F has enough pixel resolution to crop in closely and still have a decent photo.

This is weird for us. It’s the 4th of july week and we here at the West Coast and not at our grandsons place at NOLA. We had our visit earlier a couple weeks due to my work schedule. 

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Last day, pretty much wrap and travel day. We said our goodbyes this morning to our NOLA family. Saying our farewells always suck.

I took off early this evening to do some sunset shots. I’ve seen photos from local photographers and kinda got the idea and angles they were using. There are some good angles at the beach but your going to have to go in deeper to pull something different than the common sandy beach shot.

These shots were taken going in foliage, unfortunately I didn’t bring my flashlight so I had to leave before it became so dark I’d be stepping on some alligators head or walk into a hanging dangling snake.

The old brick building is the remains of the sugar mill. Not much left after being weather beaten throughout the years. It is one of the historic markers in Mandeville. These are the others recognized markers.

I’ve been into photography since I was a kid so that put me back in the film days. When I switched over to digital it was during the time consumer digital cameras were being offered. I picked up my first digital camera back in 1996. It was the latest and greatest for that time era, a Ricoh RDC-2 with a flip out monitor!

Nowadays, I use Canon and Fuji gear. I can’t recollect all the different digital cameras I’ve had the past couple decades. Below are my current gear a Canon 5DMK3, Fuji X100F & X100S. The X100S is more of backup camera to use in a pinch. The camera I use the most is the X100F, that little sucker has a shit load of features. A really big mega shit load of features.

I decided to separate the VW bus events into it’s own blog. Since we have two 1967 VW Buses it’s easier to keep it separate on another website location. This blog will continue for personal shit as I go along. Mostly for family to check on.

The VW blog is call vDUBUS
Check it out!

Yeah. Lousy moving car iPhone photo.

My son had his car towed over and we worked on it together. He replaced the starter motor which had gone bad. His first major car repair, get down son!

For some reason whenever I do any downshifting I get the dreaded grinding noise. Unless I do a double clutch the grinding will occur almost every time.

Getting ready to start off another year of tinkering and restorations. My goal is to keep the cars long enough to enjoy them longer. In the past three years I’ve had 14 different cars and motorcycles. That’s a lot of repairs on issues people did not want to spend the money on repairing.