I've added a few photos in the photography section of my website from Muir Woods, just North of San Francisco.

I love good food and I hear that I can cook really well. I've been cooking since I was a kid. About the same amount of time I've been drawing. Most people who know me well know this already. If I weren't in the art business, I'd be a photographer or a chef, no doubt.

So, one of my favorite places to eat in the world is Swan Oyster Depot in San Francisco.



The oyster is the perfect food and when you get great ones like I had in SF, they are truly sublime. All you need is a tiny squeeze of lemon or a drizzle of mignonette and you're ready to go.

The flavors and textures are so clean and pure.

I had 2 dozen Kumamotos(only 1 dozen shown below), which were superb. Sweet and tasty. I wanted to order 3 dozen more, but hey....this was breakfast :)



I also had a dozen Blue Point oysters and those were more briny and significantly larger.



Seafood salad with fresh Dungeness crab(in season back in Nov when I was there), cocktail shrimp and regular shrimp. So fresh and so good.



One day when I get some time away from work and go back to the Bay area, I will step onto hallowed ground at the French Laundry.


And you thought this blog was just about art.

I've started to add photography into the US section and I've added a few Ireland pictures as well.

I started this yesterday, worked very briefly on it and then worked a few hours on it today to finish it.





I'm getting that itch to go play some Wolfenstein:Enemy Territory now after a 1-year hiatus.

It only took me a few hours over the past few days of implementing Lightbox 2 to my website.

The photography section will be updated every so often with pictures I've taken while traveling around for vacation, work, etc. A lot of the photography I have up right now are landscapes because of the massive vistas that I was able to be immersed by in Ireland.

Here's an example of one panoramic from one of my Ireland trips:

I'm redoing big parts of my website and integrating Lightbox2 as an image viewer to make everything a bit more streamlined.