Last month we had lunch at my favorite fried chicken joint located at New Orleans. It’s a place called Willie Mae’s.

This place is not in the best of areas but regardless of the location it has become almost a mandatory place to stop and eat.

While dining with our family I mentioned to my daughter that I liked the restaurant shirt they had on display.

Look what came in the mail today! I’m a lucky dad and appreciate my daughter Mallory thinking of me.

I was messing around in the Manetarium this morning. I get into these phases where I’ll setup the shop to do a certain task efficiently.

If I had a larger shop than my 1800 square foot building I wouldn’t have to rearrange every so often.

Well shit. The rear tire got a metal shard right in the side of the sidewall. No way to repair this flat, required a new tire.

I hit my favorite tire joint at Stockton first thing this morning.

We had a really good day supporting our son Vincent in his first photography gallery held at “The Catalyst“ located at Stockton, CA.

The local PG&E crew performed a scheduled power outage early this morning around 12:30pm. I saw the crew as I was leaving this morning across the highway.

It’s been getting warm but the last 2 days are record setting heat conditions. This is the kind of weather that an air conditioner is a necessity.

Brilliant me will checking out a Cadillac in this scorching weather. I must be nuts.

In just an hour it’s gotten hotter.

I picked up the Sigma MC-11 lens adapter that allows use of the Canon EF lenses to be used with the Sony A7iii e-mount system.

The first thing I did was update the existing firmware from 1.34 to version 1.37, I didn’t even bother researching what the changes would take effect.

My initial impression is positive. The MC-11 seems to work very well with a native Sigma lens. I have a 35mm 1.4 ART lens attached and the AF “feels” more responsive and less focus breathing.

I’m not a big fan of using adapters but since I have Canon L Glass (using a Metabones IV) and the mentioned Sigma ART. I did not want to migrate over to the Sony A7iii platform and spend a considerable amount of money trying to get the same focal length glass I already owned.

I was already satisfied with the optical quality with the hardware I owned so using the glass with an adapter with no degradation was very compelling.

I’m not sure if it is a normal function for the MC-11 with a Sigma lens. When I try to use the full MF mode it will not allow that menu function to be selected. I am able to select DMF “Direct Manual Focus” mode which I prefer using.

EDIT:
I was having issues using the Canon 70-200mm 2.8L lens with the Metabones V adapter. The focusing was noticeably off. Not only was it off it was consistent. There was a super cool looking bird on a branch and none of my shots came out clear using the 70-200mm.

I did some test afterwards using the Sigma MC-11 and 70-200mm and the results were spot on auto focusing. This came as a surprise as I had been reading the Metabones adapter was superior when using Canon glass and the Sigma was better when using its own glass.

This clearly was not the case. The Metabones does seem to have an edge in certain compatibility areas such as focus modes. The DMF seems to work better than Sigma.

I’m not sure if all this has to do with upgrading the firmware to both devices with the latest available. For now, my go to adapter is the Sigma.

This allergy season year has been a super rough year for my wifey. I’m talking extreme hives and welts caused by something flying around the air. She has tried every over the counter allergy type of medicine out there but nothing seems to work.

I’ve read that local honey may help in fighting allergies. The thought is the bees use local pollen when producing the honey and this in turn creates some form of allergy resistance. This is not proven with any formal studies mostly a local remedy that seems to be going on for a long time. I thought I’d give it a whirl.

I had asked the locals what honey was being produced in our area and this particular brand came up.

Wifey and I took off this morning to the San Joaquin County fairground to attend the annual Low Rider Super Show that was originally scheduled over a month ago but had been cancelled due to poor weather conditions, in this case rain.

This show was jammed packed. No matter what “type” of Low Rider” you’re into it was being displayed. From the everyday cruiser to the across the state trailer queens.

Wifey spotted a Filipino food truck and we beelined over to make our orders. Since we are up in Motherlode country it is not often you can buy Filipino food in the area. I actually can’t remember ever seeing an advertisement or food truck serving food from the PI.

It was a good day! Ended it with one of my wifeys Super Duper Sundaes. This photo doesn’t do it justice. It is freakin’ huge and filled with everything I like to eat!