The word Jamaica conjured to my mind images of white-sand beaches, endless sunshine, and natty-dreaded Rastas wandering about to an ever-present Reggae beat. The country I discovered was much more complex than that. Topographically it shocked me – ranging from high mountains shrouded in eternal fog, to desert-like coastline spotted with cacti, to massive rivers and thundering waterfalls. Culturally it defeated my expectations – Rastas rarely seen, my surface impression was rather of a kind, if conflicted, culture which put great stock in honor, integrity, and happiness. I was told time and time again that Jamaicans know how to laugh at...

This is a much more complete version of my 2010 grape harvest tilt-shift time-lapse video. I’ve integrated footage from three different harvests: a dawn harvest at Jim Ball, a dawn harvest at Yorkville Cellars, and a late-night harvest at Claudia Springs. I took about 6000 still images over those three days, and this video represents 3,570 distinct photos. They’ve all been altered in Photoshop to give them the tilt-shift effect (contrast increased, saturation increased, and a lens blur applied). This is still very much a work-in-progress, and you can tell by the glitches in this video. Some little jostles of the camera, some...