A few weeks ago, we visited Hearst Castle for a weekend trip …

sidenote: If you are ever visiting central California and have the time, Hearst Castle is SUCH an interesting place: William Randolph Hearst’s over-the-top “vacation” home he built on his vast acres on the CA coast.

Amazing.

Fortuitously, I also got my newest camera – Fuji Instax Mini – just a few weeks earlier and brought it along to play with.

I’m still getting used to the exposures – only having “indoors”, “cloudy” and “sunny” for settings instead of all the manual intricacies like on my normal cameras is very very different!

But so fun …. you’re never quite sure what you’re going to get, and the magic of the image appearing cannot be duplicated ….

Here’s a few from Hearst Castle and our quick stop for lunch in Morrow Bay …