!DAILY UPDATES! January. 366 days: your 2016 in photographs

[simato73]

17th January: Hike in the Lake District.

[Gary]

#17:
Headed to Temecula for a day of wine tasting and great food.
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[Gary]

Breakfast. I had a crab and avocado omelette and Mary Lou had lemon and ricotta cheese pancake.  (Possibly the best pancake that has passed through my lips.) iPhone image

[Gary]

Fini

[Gary]

A taste of Grenache.
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[Frank Fremerey]

18.01.2016 ... morning walk & shopping. Daily photo discipline:

1) car window
2) sunny spot
3) how frost eats stone

[Fons Baerken]

Jan 18 2016



Df 50/1.4ais

[John Geerts]

@Gary   You make me hungry

Beautiful colors and structures Frank and Fons

January 18th

A winterly gathering on the Heuvel, the main square, which looks surprisingly winters (-4 C now)

Df  105/1.8

[Frank Fremerey]

Breakfast. I had a crab and avocado omelette and Mary Lou had lemon and ricotta cheese pancake.  (Possibly the best pancake that has passed through my lips.)

that looks like a party I would like to attend to....

[Gary]

I love all those textures, Frank and Fons. @ Fons, is that pure broken or is there some movement in the background as well?

[Fons Baerken]

I love all those textures, Frank and Fons. @ Fons, is that pure broken or is there some movement in the background as well?

Gary, I was trying out different blurs on a second layer.

[Gary]

@ John- I would love to share some of my warmer weather with you. I fear that good weather would make you soft like moi.


Yesterday was grand, the weather the food and the wines all came together.  The wineries weren't crowded and the freeway traffic was even less than average.  We polished our visit off with dinner at this extremely tasty Italian Resturant by the freeway. It was funny some of the wine tasters we chatted with at Vindemia also showed up at the Gourmet Italia where we were dining. 

- A taste of California -

[Gary]

thal looks like a party I would like to attend to....

Frank, I think you would have savored every moment. You, Mister Food Photography, would certainly appreciate the menu, food and presentation by the chefs at Thornton. We sat outside in the patio watching the food servers deliver the dishes to the patrons ... Each plate looked delicious with an artful presentation. During breakfast Mary Lou said "... Look at the blue sky, the white clouds, the snow on the mountains, it is a perfect day."

Today is a holiday here in the US, Martin Luther King Day ... Mary Lou is off from work. The very first thing she said this morning is "Are we going back to Temecula?"

Selfies on the Thornton patio.
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[Gary]

Gary, I was trying out different blurs on a second layer.

I like it, well done. I don't use layers ... I don't see that stuff when I process. I need to start thinking outside my little box ... I process similarily as if I was in a wet darkroom.  I need to start seeing beyond the wet darkroom.

[Frank Fremerey]

I like it, well done. I don't use layers ... I don't see that stuff when I process. I need to start thinking outside my little box ... I process similarily as if I was in a wet darkroom.  I need to start seeing beyond the wet darkroom.

A friend of mine is a graphics professional. He taught me a lot, but I am not so found of all the manipulations at all... but: To take the same image with different foccussing and mix the rresults in different layers can be very rewarding. Well seen!