What Time Is It?

Why it's Gin time of course!  And what the hell, let's have it be Absinthe time too.

Good friend Tony, did the labels for these two.  Some point I should devote a post just to him, his talents and how much trouble we try to get into.
But for now it's Gin time and that label Tony designed for it.  Damn good gin, made on Treasure Island in the middle of San Francisco Bay.  Tony, John and I went out the other night for some music and before the show had some drinks and there on the shelves of Absinthe (the bar in SF) was Bummer.  Naturally had a Negroni made with it.  So good.

Check out the gorgeous illustrations  by Tony's friend Mike.

Now that I have a couple cases of it and as well as the Absinthe (the liquor) I'm set for awhile.
Up next will be a day shooting the bottles for beauty shots.

Bummer and Lazarus were two dogs in San Francisco back in the 1800's that became famous for their rat killing propensities.  They have their own wiki entry.

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And the Emperor Norton Absinthe.  Again, a character from early SF.

Seven C-Stands, Three hard lights, One soft box.

Pre-assembly Saw Support Arm

These are two views of the Saw Support Arm portion from this post.  Although I've read things on the web that mentions that there are many photos out there of this saw, I am not finding that to be case.  At least photos that aren't crap photos.

After the whole thing is put together I'll photograph it comprehensively so that there will be a set on the web that will be searchable and legible.

The rear.

The front.

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Don't think I can tie all this together into one neat Hollywood ending.

One thing that is nice with doing what I do is that I don't always know what I'll be doing tomorrow.

Old friend called me out of the blue.  Is GM of a bus company, wants some photos of his buses around The City.  Spent the day with him, the driver and me tooling around to all the tourists sites in and around San Francisco.  They brought some beer onboard.  We'd pull up somewhere, I would pop out, pop off some shots and off we'd go to the next spot. That day was fun. I took the name of the company off the bus.

Got a new rangefinder.  I've been taking it on jobs.  Spent a couple half days up at my friend Carol's place in Sebastopol.  She and David have a farmette with lots props left outside to weather and get good looking.

The Set Up.

David in his beautiful chicken coop converted workshop. 

Another Set Up

The laptop in situ.

Carol brings a pot of tea and her housemade Hoshigaki.  

Later she brings a feather from a Kite

The next day I'm shooting for a start-up 3D printing company back in San Francisco.  Can't show anything from them though.  Top secret you know.

And like a day should end sometimes, I'll end this at the Utah on the corner of 4th and Bryant.

A couple friends of mine.