Derek Cooke

Jul 19

Yam noodles, tofu, chinese mushrooms and baby bok choy in spicy brown sauce.

Jun 22

I just realized I have not put this video on my website or anything. Parasol’s Saint Patrick’s Day Block Party! Watch it! (kind of NSFW).

Jun 21

This is what I do when I’m supposed to be working on my moped. Its the Honda Hobbit wiring diagram except with colored wires and you can click on things and make the colored wires show or hide. Fun times!

www.derekcookephotography.com/files/honda-hobbit-pa50-wiring-colored.php

Jun 10

I put a new gallery up of modeling shots with the lovely ladies from PINK Inc. Models. Go to www.derekcookephotography.com/images/PINK-Modeling-Agency or if you are browsing this blog on my site click the gallery link to the left and check it out!

Around town: I try to always have my camera with me. Its gotten easier now that I have a backpack again, and a new pro camera lets me be more cavalier with my old D50.

So please enjoy these photos I took around town recently. More will be added on this blog as I shoot.

Apr 13

Well I’m happy. I finally did to my website what I have always wanted to do: I can now write each new page with only the few lines of opening html and php and it comes out looking exactly right, and identical, on every single page! This means that if I ever want to change the style or content of my pages I can do it without tracking down every page and manually copy and pasting the new html. All I have to change is the base document or the css style sheet! This means I can focus all my time on creating content for the site! Or just making tumblr posts about food.

Anyway,

Ho Yeah!

By the way that awesome desktop background I have is a John Dyer Baizley album cover, click his name there and check out his awesome art!

Pad Pre King and Green Curry plate by my totally tubular girlfriend Kendra.

Apr 12

So I really wanted a c-loop or similar strap system for my cameras because having the strap connect loosely to the bottom of your camera is totally the best ever, especially when you have to lug around two bodies with big lenses all day!

I took a trip to the hardware store and voila! problem solved. All you need is about five bucks worth of stuff: metal and rubber washers, a 1/4” eye bolt and some kind of locking or spring loaded chain link or carabiner. Throw it all in the bottom of your camera and attach your favorite strap and thats it. One of my cameras has the original Nikon strap attached to the link and the other has an old guitar strap.

The only thing to watch for is that the bolt is short enough and you have enough washers so it has the tension to keep from unscrewing (thats why the rubber washers are important). And if the bolt is to long or you don’t have enough washers and you screw it in too far you can mess up your camera! If the bolt is way too long you can cut it down to size.

Apr 11

My beautiful girlfriend and I made Pad Pre King.

It is a Thai thing, I think, although she knows more about it than I (I just mixed everything up and stirred it in the wok).

It is very easy to make. You chop up a bunch of veggies like green beans, carrots, onions and the like, mix up a sauce of red curry paste, fish sauce and sugar (about equal parts), cook the sauce for a second in the wok and add the veggies, stir fry and you are done. It doesn’t need too much sauce cause it is majorly flavorful. Serve it with white rice and hell yeah!

Apr 6

Working on a video of the best St. Patricks Day party at the best Irish Channel bar in the world. Thank you free demo of Final Cut Pro!