Wednesday, February 29, 2012

Solvang Thursday


We spent this last weekend in Solvang, CA, for the 8th annual Solvang Greyhound Fest. The weather was great, and there were lots of greyhounds to see and meet.

We checked into our motel room Thursday. Later, at dusk, I stepped out of our motel room to walk over to Dascomb Cellars for their wine-tasting. The sky was clear. I spotted a crescent moon, just a few days past new, hovering over a weather vane that topped one of the buildings where we stayed:

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Then it was a short walk down Copenhagen Drive and First Street to Dascomb Cellars. There once was another winery (Wilson-Bradford) at the location a few years ago that sold wine glasses with greyhounds etched on them (see following picture below), but apparently it was in business only for a short while:

Solvang 2009 WCGG commemorative wine glass at Wilson-Bradford 

Anway, here are a few pictures of the greyhounds at the Dascomb winery:

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None of these are color-corrected, so there's way too much orange and yellow because of the lighting in the store.

(Shot with the Nikon D300 using the 50mm lens; aperture-priority, with aperture set to f/2.8; center-weighted metered; +0.7 exposure compensation; auto white balance; ISO varies; normal JPG.)

9 comments:

  1. Beautiful! Thanks Steve!

    Judy

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    1. thanks, judy! i think you'd like to visit there one day if you haven't already.

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  2. Oh, those are stunners! I love the sky in your weather vane photo! That first Greyhound picture made me smile, and I kept trying to figure out in that was a run under the dog in the second picture. You must have had such a great time!

    I think the pictures look great even without color correction!

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    1. i could've fiddled with the white balance manually...but i was too lazy. :P

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  3. Love the silhouetted weather vane and crescent moon shot. Hounds and wine. Will definitely have to visit the wineries in that area some day. Can't wait for Grapehounds.

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    1. grapehounds looks like a fun event based on the pictures i've seen.

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  4. My husband and I thoroughly enjoyed hosting the Greyhound reception. It was great having the Greyhounds visit the tasting room . . . oh, and the owners too! :o) Seriously, it was a fun night and we hope to have you all back again next year!

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    1. thank you for your comment, and thanks for allowing us to bring our greys into your tasting room. you went out of your way to make us all feel welcome. i hope we owners gave you some good business over the weekend.

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