This weekend we made our annual trip with Karen and Mike to Niagara-on-the-Lake to purchase our tickets for the Shaw Festival in the fall. Yes, we could buy our tickets online, but about five years ago we decided to make a day trip to NOTL. We purchase our tickets, have lunch at the Irish Harp, and go to a couple wineries before heading back to Rochester. The last couple of years, we’ve had breakfast at one of our houses before leaving, and dinner in Rochester before we call it a day.
The week before our trip, I received an email from the Megalomaniac Winery inviting us to a wine tasting seminar. It sounded like a lot of fun, so we signed up. There were just three couples there, so it was a very intimate group, and we learned a lot about food pairings, how to get the most of the wine tasting experience, and how the different glasses can affect your tasting experience. The only drawback was how cold it was in the winery. This particular winery is just now constructing a building for wine tasting and events. Since it opened, the wine tastings have been held in the barrel room, dug inside a hillside. It’s chilly even in the summer, and downright cold in the winter. But it seemed like a good place for the ZIZO shots of the week.
Usually I take my ZIZO shots with my Tamron 18-270mm lens, but this time I zoomed in with my feet and my iPhone.
Check out the other ZIZO photos on Helena’s blog.
sounds a great place (except for the underhill chill) love that you zoomed with your feet on these fabulous barrels – think of all the lovely wine in there!
Great shots Karen! I didn’t have my big girl camera in Nashville, so all my photos were from my iPhone or my little point & shoot.
Another new subject for ZIZO! I love the look of that warm wood
Great shots, Karen. And I think it’s cool that you used your iPhone for these shots – great composition!
Your feet and your iPhone! brilliant. Great ZIZO and all that wine!!!!!!
That’s an amazing name for a winery – no delusions of grandeur there, then! Your photos are beautifully sharp and the repetition of the barrels visually very nice. I’d have enjoyed it all apart from the cold!
It does look like it was the perfect opportunity to get zoom in/zoom out shots! How FUN!
Oh yeah – feet are good for zooming in, too! Great shots. I used to go to Niagara-on-the-Lake a lot when I was younger (I grew up in Hamilton). It’s such a beautiful place.
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