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Category Archives: Photography holiday
Rigoletto in his christening robe…
Last week I had to undertake the arduous task of tasting Rigoletto, a new cuvée at Prieuré La Chaume, whilst talking to Christian Chabirand, from whose loins Rigoletto sprang, about shooting a portrait of the new born in his christening outfit. … Continue reading
Posted in 2013, Digital photography, Food and Photography, Food photographer, France, French countryside, Landscapes, Photography, photography course, Photography holiday, Vendee, Vines, Vineyard, Wine, wine, Writing
Tagged Chardonnay, clear thinking, cuvee, delicious confection, digital photography, Food photographer, France, loire wine, natural beauty, outdoors, Photography course, red wine, Rigoletto, Spring, structured reds, Vendee, Vineyards, Vix, Wine tasting, writing
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Always look on the bright side of rice…..
Billions of Christians across the world will be making the best of a Good Friday that was far from good for the main protagonist who was executed in the most grisly fashion for the good of mankind. Looking at the … Continue reading
Posted in 2013, Cheese, Cookery Writers, Digital photography, food, Food and Photography, Food photographer, Gennaro Contaldo, Humour, Italian food, lemons, Mediterranean food, Memory, Olive oil, Photography, photography course, Photography holiday, Recipes, Religion, Ricotta, Risotto with lemon and ricotta, Thyme, Uncategorized, Writing
Tagged anathema, Easter, Gennaro Contaldo, Good Friday, Happy Easter, Prejudice, recipe, Religion, Risotto, Subconscious
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The birth of Rigoletto…
In just a few days 8.30 will be the new 7.30. The winter is dead, long live….that doesn’t work. Hurrah for the theoretical arrival of summer even if your power lines are under 10ft of snow or the rain is … Continue reading
Posted in 2013, Art photography, Celebration, Digital photography, Drinks, Food and Photography, Food photographer, France, French countryside, grapes, Landscapes, perfect day, Photography, photography course, Photography holiday, Rigoletto, Vines, Vineyard, Wine, wine, Writing
Tagged ancient mariner, clear thinking, climate, cuvee, digital photography, Food photographer, France, golden daffodils, host of golden dafffodils, Humour, literature, loire wine, misty morning, natural beauty, opium addict, outdoors, Photography course, red wine, Rigoletto, Romantic poets, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Summer time, Vendeen vignoble, vineyard, Wordsworth, writing
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First taste of summer…
For three successive mornings we have woken to sun pouring in through the windows. But winter habits being hard to shake off, ask any monk, on my way back from buying bread, I stopped at Claude’s house to order some … Continue reading
Posted in 2013, anchovies, Breakfast, capers, Digital photography, Excellence, Farming, Food and Photography, Food photographer, France, French countryside, Garden, harmony, Health, Les Saints de Glace, Mediterranean food, Olive oil, Photography, photography course, Photography holiday, summer, Sunday, Sunday breakfast, Toast, tomatoes, Uncategorized, Vendee, Writing
Tagged Anchovies, Breakfast, Capers, clear thinking, colour of the sky, digital photography, firewood, first taste, Food photographer, France, Garlic, Mediterranean food, morning toast, natural beauty, outdoors, palate, Photography, Photography course, Spring, Summer, Summer food, Sunny morning, Toast, writing
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Early clout casting….
The first sight of the sun today brought out the mad dog in this Englishman. My mission was firewood cutting and I had set about the job in my standard kit of a thick Aran knit sailing sweater under an … Continue reading
Posted in 2013, Art photography, Breakfast, Coffee, Dreams, Expectation, food, Food and Photography, Food photographer, France, Fruit, Garden, Illusion, peaches, Photography, photography course, Photography holiday, Shine, Virtual, Weather, Writing
Tagged Aran sweater, Breakfast, Casting a clout before May is out, clear thinking, digital photography, food, Food photographer, food photographers, France, Heating bill, Humour, Illusion, Mad dogs and Englishmen, Mirage, misty morning, nature, outdoors, Peaches, Photography course, sawdust, Spring, Summer, warm sunlight, Wood cutting, writing
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I’ll be yours in buttons and bows…..
I had a favourite aunt who was firm in the belief that men put on dresses when they wanted to appear really important, and it appears that the clergy are keen followers of my aunt’s views. The Ku Klux Klan … Continue reading
Posted in 2013, Arrogance, Art photography, baking, cake, Digital photography, Excellence, Excess, feather, food, Food and Photography, Food photographer, Humour, hypocrisy, Icing sugar, Illusion, Photography, photography course, Photography holiday, Religion, Sugar, Uncategorized, Writing
Tagged baking, buttons and bows, cake, clear thinking, Clergy, cooking, delicious confection, digital photography, drabness, food, food photographers, hoops of fire, Humour, Icing sugar, incontrovertible proof, Ku Klux Klan, movers and shakers, photographic media, Pontifical, Religion, Self importance, simple logic, State Circus, writing
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the bitterness of sugar…..
Financiers the world over are suffering and my heart bleeds for them, poor little bankers. These sanguine emotions have awakened the atavistic cannibal in me, so I’ve started to eat them, financiers that is, at every opportunity. One might say … Continue reading
Posted in 2013, Arrogance, Art photography, baking, Baking, Cooking, desserts, Excellence, financiers, financiers, Photography, photography course, Photography holiday, Recipes, Sugar, Uncategorized, Writing
Tagged Atavistic, Avatar, baking, Bankers, Bitterness, bleeding heart, cake, Cakes, Cannibal, clear thinking, cooking, delicious confection, digital photography, emotions, Financiers, food, Food photographer, France, Humour, Lord Sugar, photographic media, Photography, Photography course, social networking, writing
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A cute accent…..
Corn Flakes have appeared in my life again after many years absence. I had them for breakfast this morning, admittedly in a sort of de- constructed, self conscious “foodie” way, but they were very good and served to reawaken childhood … Continue reading
Posted in 2013, Accents, Advertising, Breakfast, Cereal, Corn flakes, food, Food and Photography, Food photographer, Honey, Language, Photography, photography course, Photography holiday, Tweet, Writing
Tagged America, american accent, Breakfast, Camerahols, Cereals, clear thinking, Corn Flakes, digital photography, dried cranberries, English speaking, fairy story, food, Food photographer, Humour, Intonation, Language, Norman Rockwell, Photography course, Pronunciation, simple logic, social networking, southern accent, spoken intonation, writing
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