Portraits: Nestor Miranda
In 1989, Mariana and Nestor Miranda entered the cigar business. At the time, the latter was a liquor distributor, while the former ran the company’s cigar operations out of the back of her car. Today, 25 years later, the company has a growing portfolio ranging from traditional premium cigars to accessories, and everything in between. Earlier this year, Nestor Miranda announced he would be moving into a different role as his son-in-law, Jason Wood, takes over more aspects of running the family company. Publicly, Miranda is as present ever, visiting retail accounts, usually with a cigar in his hand and maybe a drink nearby.
This photograph was taken using a Canon 5D Mark III and a Canon 24mm f/1.4 lens at f/2.8. The shutter speed was 1/60 second at ISO 1600. There was one main source of light: ambient incandescent light from an existing spotlight. The photograph was color corrected in Adobe Lightroom and further fixed in Adobe Photoshop CS6. The photograph was shot at Serious Cigars’ Texas Cigar Festival.
Brooks Whittington
I have worn many hats in my life up to this point: I started out as a photojournalist for the Dallas Morning News and the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, then transitioned to photographing weddings—both internationally and in the U.S.—for more than a decade. After realizing that there was a need for a cigar website containing better photographs and more in-depth information about each release, I founded my first cigar blog, SmokingStogie, in 2008. SmokingStogie quickly became one of the more influential cigar blogs on the internet, known for reviewing preproduction, prerelease, rare, extremely hard-to-find and expensive cigars, and it was one of the predecessors to halfwheel, which I co-founded.
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