From Mexico to Maine- Gwyn's Photoblog » Tequila http://www.agaveweb.com/photos Gwyn's Photos Thu, 11 Mar 2010 14:03:27 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Tilt-shift Agave Field http://www.agaveweb.com/photos/2009/01/13/tilt-shift-agave-field/ http://www.agaveweb.com/photos/2009/01/13/tilt-shift-agave-field/#comments Tue, 13 Jan 2009 21:58:15 +0000 gwyn http://www.agaveweb.com/photos/?p=2149 This image has no alt text but is probably something scenic or taken through a viewfinder

There’s a technique known as tilt-shift which makes your photos look like close-ups of a miniature landscape by throwing sections out of focus and whacking up the brightness. It usually takes a good half hour of fiddling with images in Photoshop to achieve the effect and I’ve never really been happy with the results. However, Tiltshiftmaker.com makes things a lot easier…

This photo is from the toll road back from Tequila. We were travelling in a teeny tiny little car…

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The raw, unprocessed material for tequila

]]> http://www.agaveweb.com/photos/2008/07/16/agave-pinas/feed/ 0 Agaves and grasses http://www.agaveweb.com/photos/2007/11/30/agaves-and-grasses/ http://www.agaveweb.com/photos/2007/11/30/agaves-and-grasses/#comments Fri, 30 Nov 2007 23:27:53 +0000 gwyn http://www.agaveweb.com/photos/2007/11/30/agaves-and-grasses/ This image has no alt text but is probably something scenic or taken through a viewfinder

Another sunny day in Tequila, Jalisco, Mexico. AgaveWeb is a proud sponsor of tomorrow’s Seminario International de Tequila 2007

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After cutting the leaves (pencas) off of each agave the jimador sharpens his coa (cutting implement).

]]> http://www.agaveweb.com/photos/2007/11/29/es-la-coa-lo-sabe-lo-sabe/feed/ 0 Fake fisheye effect http://www.agaveweb.com/photos/2007/11/20/fake-fisheye-effect/ http://www.agaveweb.com/photos/2007/11/20/fake-fisheye-effect/#comments Tue, 20 Nov 2007 15:42:08 +0000 gwyn http://www.agaveweb.com/photos/2007/11/20/fake-fisheye-effect/ This image has no alt text but is probably something scenic or taken through a viewfinder

Many houses in tequila are painted some lovely colours. I’m a fan of the blues.

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Equine friend in a field of agaves in Santa Teresa, Tequila, Jalisco, Mexico.

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Horses that resemble where they’re parked. Blondie here is from Santa Teresa, nr. Tequila, Jalisco, Mexico

]]> http://www.agaveweb.com/photos/2007/10/21/caballo-cameleon/feed/ 1 Alondra’s Agave Specs http://www.agaveweb.com/photos/2007/09/19/alondras-agave-specs/ http://www.agaveweb.com/photos/2007/09/19/alondras-agave-specs/#comments Wed, 19 Sep 2007 18:39:19 +0000 gwyn http://www.agaveweb.com/photos/2007/09/19/alondras-agave-specs/ This image has no alt text but is probably something scenic or taken through a viewfinder

Taken on the Tequila Diploma day trip last year, near Tequila, Mexico, natch.

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After the agave piñas have been cooked for a day or so, they’re mashed up and the juice heads to huge fermentation tanks that bubble and produce a sweet, sticky heat. When they’re done fermenting they’re distilled and after that bottled or barrelled. This photo of the surface of the tank was taken in the new tequila factory of El Tesoro de mi Tierra in Tototlan (The place of the birds) in Los Altos (the highlands) of Jalisco.

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I don’t think it’s an Agave Tequilana, but I’ve been wrong before.
*edit* It’s “Agave americana var. expansa” thanks, Dra. Ana Valenzuela! */edit*

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