Jeremey's Weblog

N800!

I got an N800 today. So far I'm very impressed. More details to follow.

Gathering Storm

Taken on Saturday, more info on my photoblog.

One More From the Lensbaby

More Parties

I've decided something. We need more parties. More celebrating, more great food and great wine (or great beer, or great coffee, etc.), more time connecting with friends. Our souls need it.

Houston Latte Art?

Here comes a rant. I'm sick and tired of being unable to find latte art in Houston! As far as I can tell, we have zero top-quality coffee houses. Latte art isn't the goal, necessarily, but it's a good sign. I visited three coffee houses yesterday... one because it's local and I like it, one because I heard they did latte art, and a new place right by my house.

None of the three make latte art, though the local place I like (Coffee Groundz) is working on learning, and they're great people and very honest. The place I heard about that supposedly makes latte art, Little Italy Coffee Bar, didn't. Not only did they not, but the latte was mediocre at best. At least Coffee Groundz can make a decent cappuccino, given the right barista. The third place, right by my house (Java Dave's), is using a superauto they don't know how to operate, and the cappuccino was terrible. I would hesitate to call the "coffee" in it espresso at all.

My next stop will be Agora, which I hear good things about, though latte art isn't among them. Come on Houston, we need some real coffee 'round here. If anyone knows of anyplace making latte art, please leave me a comment.

The Series as Art

I wrote post on Houston Photobloggers about the idea of a series as a single cohesive piece of art. I didn't want to repeat the post here, but I do want to link to the gallery of my boys which I used as an example. So here 'tis:

http://jlbphotographer.com/galleries/myboys/

Lensbaby, Baby!

I have a new photography toy, a Lensbaby Original. It's basically a low-fi bellows-focused manual lens, roughly 50mm perspective, with manually installed aperture "discs". There are four apertures (f/2.8 and f/4 being the most useful IMO). The lens has a sweet spot of focus (fairly soft at f/2.8) and then it gets blurry and distorted near the edges. It's a fun departure from all the resolution and sharpness of current digital SLRs. The results may remind you of stuff you'd get from a Holga or similar. Processing here done in Photoshop CS3.

iGrill

Silly me, I thought this was a joke.