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I have not written just an generic personal post in a very long time.. I decided to start this blog as kind of an experament of useing self hosted ai to develop a personal blog. A long time ago I hand coded my blog and cms but for many years I shifted to wordpress.  It really is actualy kind of overkill for a simple blog. This blog started as just mainly a test. I have been working to build it out of the past few weeks and really it is still in development so hang with me..

I think I am going to start blogging family recipes that I have been able to duplicate. None before have every been written down. I after cooking and playing with ingredients duplicated based on tast what I ate as a child.  Not many of them are written down. Those that are are mostly vague mostly on proportions of ingredients.  So I had to figure it out. Gumbo took me about 8 times to get right but we will get into gumbo in a later post. My goal is to document and share theses recipes with as many people as possible to show what real Cajun cooking is like. There have been many misconceptions of Cajun cooking. People think Cajun means spicy this is a misconception as you will see with this recipe. Cajun food is very simple and had to be because families were very poor and lacked resources to make complicated meals. Also people misunderstand and think Creole meals are Cajun meals. While they have their similarities. Cajun meals are much simpler.  You can read more about this here.  http://www.louisianatravel.com/articles/cajun-vs-creole-food-what-difference

If you saw my post on august you would of seen my post on extensive prepping for the eclipse to cover the experience as best as I could with research and testing. My dad invited us up to see the eclipse with them at a local B&B in Hiawassee Ga. We left early in the morning at 5am expecting there to be heavy traffic. That was not the case at that time. So we got there by 7:30am. We found a patch out back from every one where we would not disturb the other guests and set up our tripods. To figuring out where the sun would be by a star app I had that let us fast forward time ranges. That was a life saver in planning where we were going to be.  So we setup and were ready to go. I had My Canon 60D with a 60 year old Vivitar 200mm f5.6 pentax lens with a 3d printed solar filter holder and LCD screen hood.

I got the opportunity to again beta test a product from Hong Kong company Cactus Imaging. When I first heard I was going to be testing the flash way back in September I was extremely excited in seeing what cactus came up with this time. They did not disappoint. I had a list of features in my head that was a must have and they hit almost all of them, and included some I did not even think about. Overview: No this is not a TTL flash, however it is a flash that is cross vendor complaint. The flash itself is a single pin however you can control all the power and zoom settings from the master flash to all the slave flashes. This is important for non Nikon and Canon users who are left out of a large majority of new technology. One thing about cactus has been that they try and stay as compatible as they can across vendors. This is one of the principles that Cactus has held over the years. One exciting thing about the RF60 is that it is the first piece to a new system. I can now share images that include the future Cactus v6. The V6 will tie everything together and allow you to bring your other ttl and non ttl flashes and studio strobes into the new system. Power adjustment with the V6 will be compatible with the RF60 and different brand ttl flashes.