I think it will be made and we will see it very soon, especially after reports on niche prices suggest Apple fan boys will pay upwards of $800 for it while PCs want to pay less than $600.

I’m a big Apple fan. I love their design and the way they brand themselves. I would love an iPhone but have been holding off because it doesn’t do some things I need it to do (and it’s prohibitively expensive since I would have to change carriers AND pay a deposit).

What do I want in an Apple Tablet? Glad you asked:

I need it to substitute for a laptop: Internet, music, videos, word processing, photo editing, etc.
Wireless connectivity: WiFi, Bluetooth, Infrared and phone network (or a way to tether it through my phone)
Behavior like the iPhone, but better and ability to plug an external keyboard.
Connectivity to a TV, projector or external monitors (monitors, plural).
Decent storage (160 GB is the absolute minimum)

More specifically, I want to use it to display and upload photos to it while I’m on location. Say I’m at a wedding and I upload the photos to it for storage. During a break I can work on two or three photos and show the bride and groom how things are going. I can do this with my laptop, but a tablet would be ideal because I could carry it more easily in other settings. For example, I can take it on a shoot and play a slideshow on it with posing ideas. Once done with the shoot I can upload and I can make annotations on the photos themselves (like they do on that touch computer on CNN). Upload, say, a photo of a model I just shot and mark on it what needs to be changed or improved (dodging/burning, color correction, blemish removal, etc).

It doesn’t need to run Photoshop, but it needs at least the power to run something similar to convert RAW files to jpegs on the fly.

It needs to be fast and pretty and shiny, like all Apple products and if it’s priced at the $600-$800 level, then, it would be very difficult to pass up.

If you had a chance to design your own, what would you want on it?

Please take some time to check out the new features at www.imrphoto.com and let us know what you think.

We hope this streamlined website will make it easier to show our work and entice anyone looking for a photographer to keep us in their minds.

Thank you,

-Juan Carlos

Wonder how to do the facebook connect thing . . ..

Played basketball-

Got drunk-

Were joined by our friend Rickey-

Took some portraits-

I’m getting too used to hanging out with these rascals

I think we found them

As you can see from (some) of these pics, I am still alive. Been hanging out with John, Adriana and Clare these last couple of weeks.

Next weekend we are roadtrippin’ it to Kingsville for a wedding and a little sidetrip to Corpus Christi. Hopefully catch up with our friend Rick.

At Bar Six in Austin-

This is what happens when you hand the camera to someone else :p

Easily amused-

Showing off the tat-

Tequila shots (we’re professionals at this)-

I don’t know these people or what they’re doing. Honest-

This is Rose and I during our photoshoot yesterday. I can’t decide which is the better-looking one :p

This just seems a little odd.

Stupid, right?

So why is it that I’m always the de-facto photographer and I never take pictures?  I’ve had no less than four really great gatherings at my apartment, not to mention the best Valentine’s dinner I have ever been part of and yet, there are no pictures.

I intend to correct that.

This weekend, I spent it with my fiends John, Adriana and Clare.  No, I didn’t take my camera, but whaddaya know?  My phone can take pictures!

We took these at a very very supercrowded Southbound in Eagle Pass. This was after dinner and before getting to know a friend of ours that comes in a bottle with a deer on it

Adriana, Clare and I

-John and Adriana-

Clare and I-