We are approaching retirement on the road...with cameras.

Email: brqyvn@gmail.com

 Hi Photographer friends,

Well...we're almost there. At the end of this Month, we are officially retiring from our regular jobs and will hit the road with our RV. With my Pentax photography arsenal, I will now have all the time I want to take photographs all across this Country and Canada. I will have all the time to post all kind of useful "How to" for improving anyone's photography skills. My best images will be posted in a gallery linked to this site for sale at a minimum price for anyone to enjoy or use in advertisement.

I am aiming at getting equipment from Pentax, on loan, to test in actual field conditions. I'm not much of a "Measurebator" and don't worry much about  specifications of equipment, to a certain point. To me, it's the results you get by using your equipment in real life situations, not from scientific tests. 

We will be traveling to  every State or Province at one time or another and you know photo opportunities are going to be everywhere. What a good way to use lens from extreme wide angle to extreme telephoto. 

I will continue to write e-books for the Pentax brand of cameras and maybe some other brands as well. It seems  that since Ricoh purchased Pentax, the landscape has changed. I need the equipment on loan while I write a new e-book and that is becoming really hard with the new management of Ricoh/Pentax. The recent announcement from Ricoh that the Company will no longer bear the Pentax name as of August 1st, has me wondering where this is going to lead to. Remember Sony and Minolta?

Never-the-less, I have been a Pentax user all my life and will continue doing so. 

Along with this Pentax Blog, I also started a new blog, "The Long Way Home" in which I will document our travel with images, videos and write-ups about the places we visits, our adventures (Good and not-so-good) and anything we think you'd like. It will also be a way for family and friends to keep up with us.

This is going to be the adventure of our life (Anne and I) and I waited so long for it. I wanted to do that when I got out of College, but life took me in other directions, but thankfully, I will live the dream now.

Look for daily posting soon and also visit us on the new blog "The Long Way Home".

Thank you for reading and visiting this site for the last six years or so, and I hope you will continue to do so. The site will be more dynamic that ever.

Now that we will be traveling, we might have the pleasure to meeting with some of you along the long way home, sometimes.

Yvon Bourque

Picture of Ruby's behind taken with my Pentax K-5.

Email: brqyvn@gmail.com Hi Photographer friends,

This is Ruby (above). She 's got a big rear end! She replaced Miss Peggy (left). I had Miss Peggy for several years and many of my pictures were taken because she brought me to impossible places. It was a good time. Now, Ruby is going to tow this new House/Photo Studio that I finally saved enough to get. I will get possession of the Fifth Wheel on December 5th. I have been saving for years and purchased it five months ago with a big down payment and monthly payments until fully paid. December 5th is the big day. The rig will not be as agile as the Jeep, but it will be able to carry us to much farther places. I can guaranty that we will be gone every weekend in the coming summer. This will not stop my photography; it will make it easier to get away.

The k-5 and I went out today for a photo shoot of Ruby.

Ruby is much stronger than the Jeep, with a 7.3 Liter Diesel engine.

In addition to being a full size Pickup, Ruby has room for four people.

The dual rear wheels set-up allows her to carry enormous weight.

If only I could afford the Ranch where the photos were taken!

I cannot even afford the entrance gate.

The southern California San Bernardino Mountains are a great background.

This is the Fifth Wheel. Her name is "Tuesday". Together they form "Ruby Tuesday".

All the comfort of home, tagging along with us. Next summer will be great.

You will hear more about my Pentax cameras and "Ruby Tuesday" in the future. We will become best friends. I love photography, I love camping, I love traveling, so my blog will reflect all of my passions in the future..and then some.

Thanks for reading.

Yvon Bourque

P.S. Thank you for everyone that purchased my e-books during this Thanksgiving weekend. The K-5 and K-30 e-books sold in greater numbers that any other weekend before. Pentax e-books on sale here.