Guarinos Restaurant is the oldest continuously operating restaurant in CLE. Great food and fine wine have proven to be an exceptional winning formula for this iconic family eatery.

Cleveland, OH USA

Enough said! :)

Hacia tiempo que no hacia experimentos en casa, asi que vamos a ir retomandolos.

This was in a really small grocery store-ish place. And they had SO MUCH WINE.

Villa Pozzi Nero D'Avola

The afternoon sun again ... this time illuminating an early supper. The wine? A birthday gift to Tal from the folks on the Grande Caribe. It made it home safely in Tal's luggage! Yay.

A first pass at Darkfield Lighting.

Strobist: AB800 in Large softbox behind subject with black posterboard flag. AB800 with 10º grid above camera at label.

Someone took a series of glass negatives of rooms and furniture in a french house. Not the usual ones, where the family sits around the table or the woman of the house arranges flowers in a vase.

In this haunting photographs open cupboards reveal their untidy content and worn-out armchairs stand in contrast to antiques and elaborate clocks. Someone left his clothes on a chair in the bathroom. A storage room is cluttered with discarded stuff and the cellar is filled with dusty wine bottles.

Apart from a few framed photographs on a cupboard, there is no living creature to be seen, only the testimonies of their presence. Merely in one of the negatives the blurred ghostlike appearance of a dog passing by the camera can be made out.

In some pictures the objects seem to be arranged. Buckets, which appear to be randomly standing around, appear in a different arrangement in other views.

Take a walk through this house, there are a lot of things to discover.

Scan from a glass negative. France, 1920s/1930s (?), unidentified photographer.

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Choosing some wine from the Monk of the Market!

Other of my brother's talents, from the grapes in his backyard plus some peach! It was awesome!

This is a sign outside a large wine shop in Los Angeles. I spotted it while out walking with Meg.

It made us giggle. Sorry I am a day late for Tipsy Tuesday.

HTT

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Mamiya 645

55 mm

Fuji Reala

Sony A7R + Carl Zeiss Jena Biotar 75mm f/1.5 [circa 1955], shot at f/1.5. This lens is legendary for its unique and extraordinary swirly bokeh.

The lens was designed in the mid-1930s and production started in 1939. The model I have is the third and last iteration, with its mount converted from its original Exacta to a Nikon F.

This classic lens is now being re-created by Meyer Optik Goerlitz (Görlitz in German), a German optical company. MOG seems to have found a new niche remaking classic lenses using modern materials, coatings and manufacturing processes, and offering them in mounts that are relevant today.

MOG also found a clever business model: to put up projects on Kickstarter and get early commitments for new lenses for steep discounts (40-50%). I pre-ordered their 35mm f/2.8 Trioplan lens, famous for its soap bubble bokeh, and I have also pre-ordered the new 75mm Jena Biotar.

Click the image below to see the colored version.

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Canon EOS 3

TTartisan 250mm f5.6

Kodak Portra 160

thought i knew the guy, but alas

Moonstone Cellars...a mix of unique wines

I like drinking wine almost as much as being a woman.

Quinta da Sequeira 2006

Three wine glasses, lined up one behind each other.

Cake stands at 16 inches high. Edible image for the label.

Wine bottle on bread board. Homemade softbox camera right, White foam core to camera left. Snooted strobe aimed at background below breadboard

I Personally Have Never.. I Was Too Young,But Im Sure Many People Did Drink Wine & Dine While Listening To Good Jazz In This Old Brooklyn Hangout..

Crown Heights,Brooklyn 2009©

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My interest in wine developed long before I turned 21, as I’m sure is the case for many. My first experiences took place at family meals, the wine in question was never anything fancy, but it was a staple at mealtime just as much as was the bread or the cheese. When the table was set a bottle of wine was always brought out. Champagne was saved for birthdays and special occasions, and the hard liquor was most often served as an aperitif for guests, but wine was an everyday event….

For the full story and more images please visit my food & photography site: Gourmande in the Kitchen

For ODC-Chocolate

Not all chocolate comes in a solid form. My daughter bought this wine for us when she visited last January and I opened it last night. Very fortuitous for me as it is perfect for today's challenge. It is a sweet and very delicious wine and pairs perfectly with fruit and cheese...Yum!

Thank You for any comments/faves, I do appreciate them all.

Merry Christmas and Greetings of the Season To All My Flickr Friends...you're all very special!

Jo :)

These wine glasses have a novel design: the lips are at an angle and the bottom of the bowls are fractured.

the other night while I was sitting in front of the TV, I noticed the reflection from the TV in my wine glass and the glass table in front of me. I left the room to get my camera and when I came back my husband said..."you have to be kidding!"

I took a few shots, put the camera away and sat back down again. Here is the result :) All I did was resize and define :)