Jeremey's Weblog

Houston: The Drive

The whole set (so far): Houston: The Drive

Texas Capitol, Austin

Americano

Just gotta say... I love a good americano. I basically don't brew drip coffee anymore, if I want a cup of black coffee (which I do, frequently), I make an americano. A proper americano is made w/ hot water in your cup and then you pull your shot onto the water. That's it. It is NOT a shot pulled for a really long time; that will massively overextract the coffee. Just a normal shot as if for a latte, pulled into a cup of hot water (not too much water).

P.S. you do want to pull the shot after you put the water in the cup... that way you get all that delicious crema on top. YUM.

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Game Changer: Canon 5D Mark II

The 5D Mark II is groundbreaking in a bunch of ways... a 21MP full-frame sensor than can shoot at ISOs up to 25600 (!!!) for $2700? That's amazing.

But what I'm blown away by is 1) it shoots 1080p video, and 2) how good the video is, especially in low light. THIS is game changing. Go watch the movie Vincent Laforet made with a prototype. Keep in mind this is unedited footage and it was shot at ISOs 1600 and higher (the only change is being re-compressed at lower resolution).

The movie (on Canon's site): https://www.usa.canon.com/dlc/controller?act=GetArticleAct&articleID=2086

Now go visit Vincent's blog and read up on the whole thing... it's pretty incredible. You can also download original raw footage and stills.

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Downtown Fog, Two Views

"Ghosts"

"Breaking In"

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My Boys

Judah

Iain

Gabriel

Me... On An Apple Poster!

I taught an Aperture workshop at the Memorial City Apple Store, and they made a poster for it, with my photo on it! Pretty fun.

HMNS Meetup!

The Assignment Houston meetup at the Houston Museum of Natural Science was a big success! Thanks to Erin from the Museum and Laurie from Assignment Houston for organizing a very cool event.

A TON of photographers showed up... I was enlisted to take the group photo, I did a merged/stitched panoramic (visit the photo on Flickr to see the full size version, if you dare):

9 Months Old!

Judah turned 9 months old recently!

Inside Catalina

Just a shot from inside that I really like.