Caviar and smoked salmon for breakfast ...

The hotel where I'm staying has a Russian theme and so it is that caviar and smoked salmon are a normal part of the breakfast buffet ... champagne on Sunday mornings.

This morning, sigh ... I was sharing the breakfast room with a German professor of literature, an art critic, a man who also lectures on dance and I had this burden of 'ohmygoodness, what does on eat with their caviar?'

Fortunately, Crocodile Dundee has lowered the standards when it comes to what Europeans expect from people from the lands downunder. I calmly ate it with a little crossiant.

I love the taste but was a little uncertain about its viability as a breakfast dish ... I guess I'll experiment in the morning.

Today was the day of the hired lens which shifted my focus some. The next few jobs will be all about buying some new lenses I think. I'm just downloading the results as I write this but they seemed good on the screen ...

I'm taking photographs for a publication that will come out about this 3-day event and then ... during the reception, one of the big German banks approached me about buying a particular photograph for a project. I hope this goes well.

Then ... yes, there's more.
Then I returned to the hotel just now to find news that a magazine in West 57th Street, New York is publishing a photograph of mine so yes, it's been a good day.

Hot ... still hot though.

I'm hoping to post some photos tonight. I stepped outside from the reception and was fooling around photographing the Brandenburg Gate when I saw this photograph ... I'm hoping it's as good as it seemed on the screen.

Tot straks!