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Photo Of The Day - April 2018
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The 5 storey d'Arenberg (winery) Cube, in the McLaren Vale, South Australia. It houses a fine restaurant, an Alternate Realities Arts Collection, wine tastings area on the top floor and much more. I'm coming back soon for some long exposure images of it. My favourite drop from d'Arenberg is the delightful Peppermint Paddock, which is a wonderful sparkling red blend. It's my choice of drink for both times of the year (Xmas & the Mother-in-law's birthday) when I indulge in a glass or two!
Canon 6D, Canon 17-40mm f/4 L, Spot Metering, Aperture Priority
ISO 100, 17mm, f/4, 1/2000
Canon 6D, Canon 17-40mm f/4 L, Spot Metering, Aperture Priority
ISO 100, 17mm, f/4, 1/2000
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20170813-_DSC1363 by Charles Martorelli, on Flickr
The 5 storey d'Arenberg (winery) Cube, in the McLaren Vale, South Australia. It houses a fine restaurant, an Alternate Realities Arts Collection, wine tastings area on the top floor and much more. I'm coming back soon for some long exposure images of it. My favourite drop from d'Arenberg is the delightful Peppermint Paddock, which is a wonderful sparkling red blend. It's my choice of drink for both times of the year (Xmas & the Mother-in-law's birthday) when I indulge in a glass or two!
Canon 6D, Canon 17-40mm f/4 L, Spot Metering, Aperture Priority
ISO 100, 17mm, f/4, 1/2000
Australian wine. Reminds me of this great sketch:
A lot of people in this country pooh-pooh Australian table wines. This is a pity, as many fine Australian wines appeal not only to the Australian palette, but also to the cognoscenti of Great Britain.
'Black stump Bordeaux' is rightly praised as a peppermint flavoured Burgundy, whilst a good 'Sydney Syrup' can rank with any of the world's best sugary wines.
'Chateau Bleu', too, has won many prizes; not least for its taste, and its lingering afterburn.
'Old Smokey, 1968' has been compared favourably to a Welsh claret, whilst the Australian wino society thouroughly recommends a 1970 'Coq du Rod Laver', which, believe me, has a kick on it like a mule: 8 bottles of this, and you're really finished -- at the opening of the Sydney Bridge Club, they were fishing them out of the main sewers every half an hour.
Of the sparkling wines, the most famous is 'Perth Pink'. This is a bottle with a message in, and the message is BEWARE!. This is not a wine for drinking -- this is a wine for laying down and avoiding.
Another good fighting wine is 'Melbourne Old-and-Yellow', which is particularly heavy, and should be used only for hand-to-hand combat.
Quite the reverse is true of 'Chateau Chunder', which is an Appalachian controle, specially grown for those keen on regurgitation -- a fine wine which really opens up the sluices at both ends.
Real emetic fans will also go for a 'Hobart Muddy', and a prize winning 'Cuiver Reserve Chateau Bottled Nuit San Wogga Wogga', which has a bouquet like an aborigine's armpit.
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Mind you, I've tasted some great australian wines. We drank some great wine in Sydney, recommended by a wine student from Adelaide. Many moons and bottles ago.
Since Spring is late arriving to where I live- it's only 41 with pouring rain, I'd thought I do a portrait of one of my many ceramic bunnies. This one is holding a beautiful bouquet of spring flowers.
As noted previously ... you do have a way of finding the sights of my youth Scottsman. Try an interior shot in the Cathedral, the stained glass windows are very nice indeed ...
Back to the cool and quirky winery again. They found this hat rack made from goats feet in a garage sale somewhere in the region! 
There's so much stuff here that most people probably don't even see it!
Canon 6D, Canon 17-40mm f/4 L, Partial Metering, Aperture Priority
ISO 6400, 36mm, f/8, 1/50
There's so much stuff here that most people probably don't even see it!
Canon 6D, Canon 17-40mm f/4 L, Partial Metering, Aperture Priority
ISO 6400, 36mm, f/8, 1/50
PollenAah, yes, Monty Python's "Previous Record!" I used to have it on cassette and reckon I wore it out.
It's quite amazing that there's still these damn wine snobs around today, with their regular foodie/fine wine type articles with exactly this sort of tone and overly descriptive use of language that Eric idle is taking the Mickey out of (so well) here! If anything, over the last 15 years or so they have become as pervasive as the hipsters...
I really like this! The black background makes this shot.Took some shots of Mrs MacRy's latest knitting project for her and of course Bob had to get involved.
Sony A7 with FE 28-70 @65mm, ISO100, F10, 1/200 with single speedlight and brolly.
Also taken in Canada, I was bent down trying to take a picture of a cricket in the grass. Looked up and this juvenile was circling overhead...
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Went to the local beach last night for some long-exposures and it was a pretty high tide that was very choppy and foamy. Not that it really shows in this image. Anyway, it made for unusable LE's, as the foam over the rocks actually made the rocks look randomly out of focus! You'll get to see that tomorrow. I just thought I'd set the tone first.
No filters were used in the making of this image.
Canon 6D, Canon 17-40mm f/4 L, Multi-segment Metering, Manual Mode
ISO 100, 17mm, f/4, 1/50
No filters were used in the making of this image.
Canon 6D, Canon 17-40mm f/4 L, Multi-segment Metering, Manual Mode
ISO 100, 17mm, f/4, 1/50
Another Wales shot. Couldn't decide if this should be colour or B&W? I might post one in monochrome later this week.
_DSC6728 by apple fanboy1, on Flickr
Comments always welcome.
_DSC6728 by apple fanboy1, on FlickrComments always welcome.