I get inspired by people and conversation and serendipitous moments with discoveries and keen, revealing observations where one thing feeds upon another and those around me as well as me relax and smile and feel more at ease and comfortable and reveal more about ourselves in the process.
It all started with the observation that I had previously made a good wine suggestion and here these two were back for more of the same and perhaps something new? I liked the way this started. I liked the young lady's tattoo and I liked her enthusiasm for wine and her willingness to stand there and talk about it with me. The young man was also very interested in wine and so the three of us chatted for a long time before I got so inspired that I offered them both tastes of the wines that I had open and chilling in the wine cooler by the tasting table. We three all moved up there and I tasted along with them to see what had happened to the wine since I had last tasted it : how it had evolved and how the temperature changed it's taste?
I was inspired by all of this and kept snapping away hoping to get a good picture of the bottle that she held as well as of her tattoo. What I got was more abstract and fun and carefree and less distinct or clear : all a lovely blur where colors and shapes and textures all melted into the other. I liked it : a tapestry of browns and greens and shades of golden lights as well as shadows, too. Features and arms and legs and bottles and objects all became double or tripe and hazy and fuzzy and warm and very peaceful, too. I liked it all : I especially like it now weeks after I took these pictures with my Canon digital camera and I go back to see them once again.
These pictures tell a lovely story all by themselves. It's almost best that I let them speak for themselves and also as a whole and not say any more. What do you all think? Do you agree with this last observation of mine?
I also like that these two are really only recognizable perhaps to the two of them? Their features are blurred enough that only really their family and close friends will recognize them?
Is it necessary to have names to the faces and forms to make the stories any more interesting/ the pictures any more informative or thought-provoking or captivating?
So with this lovely tattoo and these two happy and young customers of ours interested in learning more and tasting more wine I leave you and let the pictures do the rest. Cheers, TONY
It's now Sunday, June 13th, 2010 ( actually it's Monday, June 14th, 2010 ( at 12:13 AM ) here at home in northern Virginia during the Soccer World Cup games.
