365 Photo Project - Day 58

Taken: February 27, 2010, approx. 1:15 p.m.
Location: Solvang, Ca

I'm posting a day late again. Saturday was a travel day and I didn't get home until late. In the category of no good deed goes unpunished, I'm getting worked over by my first cold of the season. So, I'm going to make this post short.

I shot this off  the main drag on our way out of Solvang. Who knew they had ostrich ranches out here?  I tried out my old manual 200mm lens and got some close-ups of the big birds, but this long shot was my favorite. I'm gonna call it the Plains of Central California. Ha.

The weather was like this sky the whole trip, partly sunny, partly cloudy with patches of blue sky peeking out and bouts of rain so heavy it was hard to see the road. It was a rainbow hunters kind of a day and while we did see a couple, they looked much better in person than in the images I shot with my camera. Some things are best remembered anyway.

Shot this with my K100D. Edited slightly in Photoshop.

365 Photo Project - Day 57

Taken: February 26, 2010, approx 6:30 p.m.
Location: Flatbread Restaurant, Los Alamos, Ca.

Just finishing a whirlwind trip to Solvang with my friend Keiko Niccolini, Keiko who has long been in the wine biz,  put together an amazing project with the help of Palmina Winery in Lompoc, Ca. They bottled a rose called Sintanize: Rose For Haiti. All the profits are going to Rural Haiti Project.  Please click on the link and check out their good works for the children of Haiti. If you want to order the wine, contact Keiko here or find her on twitter at @cocolovie -- but get it on it soon because there's only 120 cases.

This photo is rose but not the actual Sintanize which just came off the bottling line today. I shot this with my K100D at a great restaurant in Los Alamos called Flatbreads -- amazing pizzas made with organic and local ingredients. Even if you can't get out to Central California, you can find it in your local Whole Foods freezer under Full of Life Flatbreads. Trust me, it's damn good.

This was edited lightly with Photoshop.