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Took this shot in tanjore , India . the sun was scorching hot and i badly wanted to get into water, but i had my camera gear in my hand which prevented me from getting near it .
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My first forays into macro photography... I recently purchased a Nikon 105mm VR and just love it!
This is a shot of the famous (or maybe not so famous) Elixir al Borducan. A special tipple from the AL Borducan Hotel (hotel website) in Sacro Monte di Varese (photos here and here). I stayed at the Al Borducan while I was working in Italy and I have to say it is one of the friendliest hotels I've ever been to, the couple that runs the hotel are just wonderful and its location in Sacro Monte di Varese is really hard to beat. I highly recommend a stay at this hotel, or just stop by for the wonderful food and great wine.
History of the Elixir (Source: www.borducan.com))
Elixir at Borducan is the liquor of Sacro Monte based on extract of orange and potherbs which was invented by Davide Bregonzio , a fighter under Garibaldi in 1872.
Its recipe has come down to us thanks to the tradition from father to son. Davide Bregonzio’s story is legendary: he fought at Marsala among the expedition of the One Thousand, wearing his red shirt in 1860, but he was from Varese by birth and an expert herbalist who produced a distillate called “ Ten herbs from Campo dei Fiori” at first.
During a travel to Algery he could appreciate the local oranges and when he came back to Varese he decided to invent a new liquor, The Borducan elixir, whose name meaning “orange” comes from the Arabian exotic places. In 1872 “Caffè at Borducan” was opened in the very heart of Santa Maria del Monte” village and the recipe became quickly successful coming down from every family descendant to the last one: Bruno Bregonzio, who is Davide’s grandchild.
Davide distilled his elixir on his own until he died in the rooms of the newly restored hotel restaurant “At Borducan”
Wild Rose anti-aging elixir
We have always imagined the perfect oil elixir as a combination of pure and valuable ingredients in a combination were all of them would interact, revealing their nourishing qualities to the highest possible level.
As it happens to all of our recipes, we seek out for inspiration in nature and in traditional body care and after many years of trying, we have concluded to this velvety oil, which conditions and repairs while imparting a luxurious blend of pure rose, helicrymum, palmaroza, and carrot.
Our elixir, is designed to be used as an all in one skincare, oil cleansing, moisturizer, eye area serum and anti aging facial treatment. Leaves skin soft and smooth, reduses wrinkles and protects from free radicals. just try it out! :)
Ingredients: We have carefully selected our ingredients using only bio oils and essential oils just to ensure ourselves that our final product would be as close to raw, natural materials as possible.
jojoba( bio)
argan oil ( bio)
wild rose hips oil (bio)
palmaroza, helichrisum, bulgarian rose, carrot eo.
30ml (1.014 oz)
phthalate, paraben, synthetic, dye, and cruelty free.
I'm not at all sure I've done justice to Georgie's achingly beautiful beads here. I actually felt guilty teaming them with my lowly polymer clay beads, but the colours matched so perfectly! Ah well, I can always break it down and try again! Lampwork glass, polymer clay, crystals, magatamas (yay for magatamas!) and silver.
In his later life, Qin Shi Huang feared death and desperately sought the fabled elixir of life, which would supposedly allow him to live forever. He sent Xu Fu, a Zhifu islander, with ships carrying hundreds of young men and women in search of the mystical Penglai mountain. There they were supposed to locate Anqi Sheng, a 1,000-year-old magician whom Qin Shi Huang had supposedly met in his travels and who had invited him to seek him there. These people never returned, perhaps because they knew that if they returned without the promised elixir, they would be executed. Legend says that they reached Japan and colonized it.
This fixation with immortality must go a long way to explaining the existance of the Terracotta Army.
I managed to drink three of these this year, compared to my one last year. And for those who may not know, these are 1 liter glasses, so imagine little 100 pound me drinking a 2-liter coke bottle filled with beer, and then another half of one. That's a lot!!! I don't exactly remember anything after my second, or for approximately 5 hours after my memory of the day stops, but from what I was told from other people, I was still having quite a bit of fun!
A romantic & generous prince presents his beloved Princess with a gift -- a beautiful key set with a light pink diamond. He takes her by the hand and leads her to a richly ornamented wall cabinet. With delight she realizes that there is more to the gift than just the key. She opens the padlock and sees shelves with a miniature crystal chandelier, a glass rose, a bottle of Enchanted elixir perfume, and a Russian doll.
She picks up the larger Russian doll and opens it, eager to find layers of progressively smaller dolls inside. Instead, inside there is a sparkling enchanted doll, decorated from head to toe in diamonds & precious gems. She beams at her prince, at a loss for words, to describe her gratitude for such a masterpiece.
The prince has one little surprise left -- inside the small Russian doll is a heart shaped diamond pendant set with a rare, natural Australian Argyle pink diamond with the coveted grade of 'Fancy Purplish Red'. (This little treasure weighs less than half a carat & is valued at over half a million dollars.)
The princess is absolutely thrilled by these extravagant gifts -- especially adoring the pendant and the stunning Enchanted doll.
The Enchanted doll website
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