Article and photos by Joel Wolfson When you go on a major trip with photography in mind, just deciding what gear to bring and getting to your destination and back with all of it can be as much of a challenge as shooting great photos once you are there! Over the years I've done a number of travel photography presentations and received a lot of good … [Read more...]
Slide Fire Update
What's it like to experience a forest fire when your home is in that forest? In a word, scary. Here is a link about our experience with this 3 years ago in June of 2011. With all the national attention to the Slide Fire in Oak Creek Canyon we've been getting a lot of emails, texts, and calls asking if we're OK. Yes we are but in light of our … [Read more...]
Time for the harvest!
Here is one of the reasons we chose this time of year! The grapes are ripe on the vine and ready for harvest... They harvest different grapes in stages and these Syrah grapes are ready now. The "Nero d'Avola" (a Sicilian grape) grapes are another week away and the white wine grapes a little more. We'll get to see the harvest and the beginning of … [Read more...]
Finalemente!
Ciao from Sicilia! After some technical difficulties with the blog, we're in business in Modica. We've had mostly beautiful weather with one drenching rain storm. It's all good... Yesterday, we tried the famous chocolate- sometimes the old ways are the best ways. Modern chocolate is heated to a point so the sugar is melted, but Modica chocolate is … [Read more...]
Additional pics
If you ask someone from Sicilia ("See-sheel-ya" as pronounced by natives), they might say they are still a separate country from Italy. They are only half joking! Although the people are as wonderful as their relatives to the north and the food as tasty, the culture is very different! Here are few shots I meant to get on the blog earlier, but … [Read more...]
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