For this episode of Hobby Dabbler, we combined two loves of mine and Paul’s: cocktails and photography! Our guest, Dave Imbordino, joined us for an evening of tips and tricks for photographing some delicious drinks that we stirred, shaked, er… “mixed up” together with some friends.

If you ever have thought about hosting a cocktail party 1) listen to Dave’s pro tips after the podcast credits and 2) invite us!

I hadn’t even considered the category of “social hobbies” when I was making Hobby Dabbler but I’m totally convinced that if the main reason of doing a hobby is to socialize, then it ought to get some kind of credit. Instead of an actual tag, like how I normally bin the hobbies I try, I’m going to create a “social hobby” category for these types of things – similar to how I made a “parent-child” category which could apply to various hobbies.

I will say, this episode was 6 months in the making. It was one of my first actual hobby dabbles but the most complicated and time-intensive episode to put together – and for the shortest recording so far! The good news with taking so long to get through this episode is that I’ve already learned so much from editing other episodes that I was able to do this one justice (I hope) with demonstrating how much fun I had because I took a chance and said “yes.” Enjoy!