I am right now about 36,000 feet in the air, on my way with Teresa to San Francisco for yet another trip based primarily on eating good food. Today is our 5th wedding anniversary, and we have an exciting couple of days ahead. Tonight we have a reservation at Boulevard in SF, and tomorrow evening we dine at Thomas Keller’s restaurant, The French Laundry. To say I look forward to it is an understatement. I’ll be sure to share that experience here.

Any tips for other great food in San Francisco? Leave ‘em in the comments.

Ranting time…

Just a photo for today.

I’m going to keep this short and sweet. As you may have noticed, I take a lot of photos. Like many photographers, I love Adobe Lightroom – it’s probably my most-used application on my computer… well-designed, fantastically organized, and very powerful. I also love my iPad and take it with me a lot more often than I do my laptop computer. Wouldn’t it be great if there were a Lightroom for iPad? Well, there isn’t.

But there is something that is just about as good: Photosmith for iPad.

The Photosmith app allows you to, among other things, work with RAW camera files on the iPad, applying Lightroom tags, color labels, picks/rejects, star ratings, sets, etc to your photos right on your iPad. All of that then gets synced to your desktop Lightroom library. It allows you to basically review and start the process of managing your photos before you ever even sit down to your desktop Lightroom library.

The biggest surprise for me was that it works amazingly fast, even with huge RAW files. It’s about the best $20 I’ve ever spent on an app.

And I’ve got a free copy of Photosmith for 3 lucky winners. You’ll get the app as well as a lifetime of free updates (they just keep improving the software). All you need to do is leave a comment on this post, below, about the type of photography you do. Be sure to fill out the “email” field (will not be posted or shared). If you’ve got Twitter, make sure you tweet about this contest, too. You’ve got until midnight (EST), on Tuesday, June 12th, to enter. 

I’ll randomly select three winners and, if you win, contact you with a code good for a FREE copy of Photosmith. One entry per person, please!

You can also learn more about the app here. Good luck!

Fresh asparagus from the farmer’s market in Reston this week. Nothing like a fresh start for Spring.

I made this recipe today… it wasn’t good, so I’m not going to write about it.

Part of my duty as a food blogger is to edit myself and to make sure I’m sharing things that are worthwhile. Unfortunately, if Thomas Keller had descended from the heavens, hand-selected each ingredient, and then spent a full day just cooking this dish, it probably still wouldn’t have tasted good.

Consider it my gift to you for not posting this. Enjoy your day!

I started off with good intentions for this Asia trip, updating after the first day of travel in Taiwan.

However, things have gotten predictably too busy to keep posting during the trip. We are out all day and most of the night. I haven’t had much time to update the blog, but I have a lot to post once I get home later this week. Until then, I’m posting some quick pictures and thoughts to my Twitter. We’re in Tokyo for a few days right now.