Dinner with Stephen

Last week I got to dine with 2 famous Stephens. The first was Stephen Frink, a legend in underwater photography world said to be among the world's most widely published marine and underwater photographer. He came to take amazing above ground pictures of animals along with 15 or so other photography enthusiasts. Once in a blue moon Stephen comes back to land and leads a once in a lifetime tour to an exotic location. This year it was Africa, a trip that was 2 years in the making. It was interesting to watch this kaleidoscope of individuals brought together from all parts of American by one common passion, photography. It was easy to follow or include myself in their conversation as long as I had Photography somewhere in my sentence. They certainly stirred and stoked my little fire for photography, someday i will be able to afford the bazookas they were carrying and take better pictures, by that time they will probably be on to something else...space photographic travels perhaps.

Then Stephen Falcke came by,(he is only one of the world's top 3 interior designers!!) Soft spoken fabulous Stephen came to rearrange our public areas and rooms with lots of color and unique artefacts. The same man who is responsible for this, this and this got to use our public areas as his little amusement park for a few hours! For someone who gets calls from the likes of Sol Kerzener, Stephen is quite humble and down to earth with a sharp eye for detail. I extremely enjoyed his stories peppered with exotic lifestyles and glitterati and he taught me how to make a "rock shandy" his version of this mocktail includes:

1 part soda
1parts sprite (or lemonade)
A couple of shakes bitters

Me thinks Stephen has a bit of a sweet tooth going!