the newmans and my website update

Having friends who photograph well, or are professional models has been the secret to my portfolio looking like it does for the past few years. But this new series has me super excited like nothing else quite has. Ashley and Brian recently got married (and are repped by Elite/Chosen), and she got a new NYC haircut and wanted to shoot while she was in Chicago for a few days. It was fantastic to see Ashley so happy. We've known each other since college and we've both been through rough patches and for her to get hitched to such a great man is so perfect. She's a great example of how a model can be a truly interesting and compelling person with tons of charisma, not just a pretty mannequin with no story.

Anyways, I took the shots and printed up a nice handmade book of the images. The first printing didn't go quite as I planned (there will be round 2) but this is what It should look like in the end. (the last image is the front and back cover, folded down the middle)

bread o'rama

I got some choice cheeses from my friends who work in the kitchen at Tizi Melloul, and decided I couldn't dare take them to see "Sunset Boulevard" in the park downtown without a proper bread to go with them. Of course each cheese was different so each one got a different loaf to accompany it. I made one plain white loaf, which started out as a boule, but I think my inability to let it be (too much kneading) made it into more of a ciabatta loaf. I then used a bit of that dough and kneaded in (and glazed with) a garlic, rosemary and lemon butter. Loaf three was a whole wheat+rye combo filled with raisins, dates, mission figs, almonds, walnuts and pecans. Here's a little snippet of what they looked like.







As you can see, the crumb is all pretty even, but the flavor what right on. I really need to try and get a truly french loaf. I think I might start that right now....

Oh and shout out to thefreshloaf.com for inspiration.

canon software update stuff

http://web.canon.jp/imaging/sdl/dpp-e.html
is where you can download the Dpp software if you've ever lost the canon disk. Tisk tisk for not letting this be available in current versions like this.

If you don't have the original CD you can edit the registry with regedit and add the following lines of code. This is danerous, so be careful!!
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Canon]

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Canon\DPP]

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Canon\EOS Utility]

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Canon\PhotoStitch]

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Canon\ZoomBrowser EX]

This is all pertinent to windows OS