Check ’em out; also includes Erin’s half marathon in Chicago.

These behind the scenes shots from Mad Men have some amusing anachronisms in them. Enjoy.

Two sets. I’ve been remiss:

• a few snaps from New Orleans in May; and
• a few more from Mrs Heathen’s 40th last week, which includes a special bonus visitor towards the end.

A photographer’s life in graph form.

I’ve been really lazy about postprocessing for about six months; here’s a few sets, minimally curated, documenting the first half of 2010:

• Mrs Heathen runs a 10K
• The Catastrophic Theater Gala
• Surprise! R-W-S’ Birthday Pantomime Extraganza
• Then Chris turned 40 at Brenner’s, where the drinks are good, the weather is fine, and the service is terrible.

and, finally

• CJ Chenier at Discovery Green

The season finale of House was shot with a Canon 5D Mk II. The 5D is Canon’s “prosumer” DSLR camera — in other words, it’s a still camera that also takes HD video, not a purpose-built HD video camera.

At $2,500, it’s not cheap, but it’s also not so expensive that normal (but devoted) photographers can’t have one — it’s laptop territory, not used-car territory.

The Boston Globe’s photo feature for the year is just as excellent as you’d expect.

Check out #14 in particular.

The Boston Globe’s Big Picture feature is always awesome; this time, it’s made of NatGeo’s International Photography Contest entries.

The Boston Globe runs some of the best photos on the net, and they magnify the pleasure by presenting them in a sane, simple, way: it’s one long page with pretty large images. No scripts, no Flash, no fancy Ajax or other crap. Just pictures. It’s a clinic on good user experience design.

This time around? World Animal Day.

Pictures from Party Like A Rock Star are now on HeathenFlickr. Enjoy.

How about some pictures of the top of Everest from a hot-air balloon?

Several sets new on Flickr:

• In Which Dan and Shelli get hitched, presided over by Reverend Chief Heathen;
• In which we visit Layla and her parents in Nieceapallooza Part I; and
• In which we trek to Albany to investigate Nieceapallooza Part II: Electric Boogaloo.

I got my picture in the paper. Sorta.

More pix over at HeathenFlickr, this time documenting the usual suspects, crawfish, and the inevitable descent into Rock Band. Enjoy.

HeathenPix of ArtCar 2009 are now up at Flickr.

Photodocumentation of Birthdayfest ’09 at Chez Jarzosaki is now available. Enjoy.

Here We Are In Clowntown, a photo-documentary prominently featuring many Heathen. Enjoy.

Anneliese & David eloped, but they had a great party at Treebeard’s anyway.

Turns out, Louis CK is a giant camera nerd, and also a pretty compelling blogger — the entry linked here is one of several he wrote about performing via the USO for troops in Iraq.

There’s been a whole mess of picture-takin’. Here you go:

• Cowboy Mouth at the Rodeo
• Birthday Fun @ Heathen World HQ, including the delightful spectacle of actual musicians playing Rock Band
• Photodocumentation of the annual North Odell Crawfish Boil

Enjoy.

Someone please explain this to me:

These photocollages from Sergei Larenkov blend WWII-era black and whites with modern color shots taken from the same perspective in the same place for a ghostly same-place-different-time montage.

It sounds a little weird when described, but just go look. It’s very cool.

Inauguration pictures are at Flickr.

You can’t do THIS with your fancy-boy DSLR. Check it out.

Photojournalist David Bergman created a 1,474 megapixel composite image of the Inauguration that you can scroll around and zoom with, a la Blade Runner. It takes a while to load, but it’s amazingly cool once you get it. Check it out.

My final photo is made up of 220 Canon G10 images and the file is 59,783 X 24,658 pixels or 1,474 megapixels. It took more than six and a half hours for the Gigapan software to put together all of the images on my Macbook Pro and the completed TIF file is almost 2 gigabytes.

Yeow. It’ll be a while before we’re capturing this kind of data with our point-and-shoots, but that it’s possible now at all is pretty cool.

Our nomination for “Best Olympic Photo” is here. I can only say: Whoa.

Thanksgiving 2008 at Chez Heathen, starring FOUR CARLS.

Of course, I’m not Jeff Bridges, and my work isn’t making Iron Man.

Forgive him the shitty layout; the pictures and commentary are well worth it.

So, I took a bunch of pix at the Via Colori festival, and Houstonist liked one enough to run on their site. Neat.

Shots from Catatrophic’s The Strangerer are now on HeathenFlickr.

Earth from Above.

“The panda vomits photographs.”

So, lots of Flickrism; in rough chron order:

• A few shots experimenting with the new 50/1.8 taken at Joystix twice-monthly arcade nights;
• Some potentially incriminating photo-documentation of booze and charades at Katie & Scott’s not long ago;
• The Brazosport Laser Panthers production of Fine Arts Fascists; and
• Complete coverage of the West Houston Cannonball Invitational held this weekend, by accident, after some beer.

Obviously, I’m still finding my feet with the 50, but it’s still awful cool to be able to shoot indoors with no flash.

The best one is here, but his earlier efforts are fun, too. See also this guy.

Two new sets:

• Layla Visits Houston!; and
• Houston Rollerderby

Enjoy if you like that sort of thing.

Problogger Heather Armstrong and her husband Jon are good reads, but the real gravy is when they post pictures like this.

Photo documentation of the JDRF gala is now on HeathenFlickr.

Three new sets over at HeathenFlickr:

• FirstNiece Caroline at the Beach, on the day after Christmas (with special appearance by MiddleNice Nana);
• New Year’s Eve, at the Lopp/Stinson compound; and
• Breckenridge with the Farmers and McHornes.

Enjoy.

Thanksgiving 2007, documented on Flickr. Enjoy.

Awesome wedding candids. Check ’em out.

We’ve been at it again, this time attending this event at the Sabine Art Park last night. All shots are unedited, except for some cropping on the well-lit and unblurry group shot that was originally framed like the slightly blurry version.

Photographs from the Wurstfest run-and-drink trip last weekend are now up on the HeathenFlicker. Enjoy, if that’s your sort of thing.