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Vinography Images: Bright Zinfandel
Bright Zinfandel ALEXANDER VALLEY, CA: A brightly backlit zinfandel grape leaf turns vivid red in Autumn in Sonoma County. I've got Zinfandel on the brain this week thanks to the ZAP festival. INSTRUCTIONS: Download this image by right-clicking on the image and selecting "save link as" or "save target as" and then select the desired location on your computer to save the image. Mac users can also just click the image to open the full size view and drag that to their desktops. To set the image as your desktop wallpaper, Mac users should follow these instructions, while PC... continue reading 
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Vinography Images: Moon Over Sonoma
Moon Over Sonoma SONOMA COUNTY, CA: A full moon rises over an oak tree in Alexander Valley. INSTRUCTIONS: Download this image by right-clicking on the image and selecting "save link as" or "save target as" and then select the desired location on your computer to save the image. Mac users can also just click the image to open the full size view and drag that to their desktops. To set the image as your desktop wallpaper, Mac users should follow these instructions, while PC users should follow these. PRINTS: Fine art prints of this image and others are available... continue reading
- Posted by: Alder on January 27, 2012 10:11 PM
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Vinography Images: The Mustard
The Mustard RUSSIAN RIVER VALLEY, CA: Flowering mustard growing between the grapevines signals the beginning of spring as seen in Healdsburg, Sonoma County, California. INSTRUCTIONS: Download this image by right-clicking on the image and selecting "save link as" or "save target as" and then select the desired location on your computer to save the image. Mac users can also just click the image to open the full size view and drag that to their desktops. To set the image as your desktop wallpaper, Mac users should follow these instructions, while PC users should follow these. PRINTS: Fine art prints... continue reading
- Posted by: Alder on January 20, 2012 8:53 PM
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Vinography Images: St. Emilion
St. Emilion BORDEAUX, FRANCE: The historical village of St. Emilion, located in the famed Bordeaux wine region, is viewed in this spring photo looking southeast. INSTRUCTIONS: Download this image by right-clicking on the image and selecting "save link as" or "save target as" and then select the desired location on your computer to save the image. Mac users can also just click the image to open the full size view and drag that to their desktops. To set the image as your desktop wallpaper, Mac users should follow these instructions, while PC users should follow these. PRINTS: Fine art... continue reading
- Posted by: Alder on January 13, 2012 8:21 PM
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Vinography Images: Nicole's Vineyard
Nicole's Vineyard RUSSIAN RIVER VALLEY, CA: Green grasses growing between the grapevines signals the start of spring as seen in Nicole's Vineyard in Healdsburg, Sonoma County, California. INSTRUCTIONS: Download this image by right-clicking on the image and selecting "save link as" or "save target as" and then select the desired location on your computer to save the image. Mac users can also just click the image to open the full size view and drag that to their desktops. To set the image as your desktop wallpaper, Mac users should follow these instructions, while PC users should follow these. PRINTS:... continue reading
- Posted by: Alder on January 6, 2012 11:48 PM
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Vinography Images: Vineyard Snow
Vineyard Snow UKIAH VALLEY, CA: Rows of head-pruned zinfandel grapevines stand as winter sentinels in this Mendocino County photo taken at Eaglepoint Ranch. Happy New Year! INSTRUCTIONS: Download this image by right-clicking on the image and selecting "save link as" or "save target as" and then select the desired location on your computer to save the image. Mac users can also just click the image to open the full size view and drag that to their desktops. To set the image as your desktop wallpaper, Mac users should follow these instructions, while PC users should follow these. PRINTS: Fine... continue reading
- Posted by: Alder on December 30, 2011 10:35 AM
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Vinography Images: Vineyard Snowman
Vineyard Snowman ALEXANDER VALLEY, CA - 2007: A plastic snowman next to a vineyard brings holiday levity on a dark winter day in Sonoma County, California. Happy holidays from Vinography! INSTRUCTIONS: Download this image by right-clicking on the image and selecting "save link as" or "save target as" and then select the desired location on your computer to save the image. Mac users can also just click the image to open the full size view and drag that to their desktops. To set the image as your desktop wallpaper, Mac users should follow these instructions, while PC users should... continue reading
- Posted by: Alder on December 23, 2011 9:41 PM
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Vinography Images: Winter Wine Country
Winter Wine Country HEALDSBURG, CA: Gnarled old zinfandel grapevines stand against a backdrop of snow in the mountains surrounding Sonoma County's Alexander Valley on March 1, 2011. Northern California's heavy winter rains and snowpacks in 2011 eased drought concerns, raising the spirits of grape growers and farmers throughout the state. INSTRUCTIONS: Download this image by right-clicking on the image and selecting "save link as" or "save target as" and then select the desired location on your computer to save the image. Mac users can also just click the image to open the full size view and drag that to... continue reading
- Posted by: Alder on December 16, 2011 8:53 PM
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Vinography Images: Orange Rows
Orange Rows ALEXANDER VALLEY: Rows of hillside Cabernet Sauvignon vineyard turn a brilliant orange and red color in this Sonoma County, California, fall landscape photo. INSTRUCTIONS: Download this image by right-clicking on the image and selecting "save link as" or "save target as" and then select the desired location on your computer to save the image. Mac users can also just click the image to open the full size view and drag that to their desktops. To set the image as your desktop wallpaper, Mac users should follow these instructions, while PC users should follow these. PRINTS: Fine art... continue reading
- Posted by: Alder on December 9, 2011 8:59 PM
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Vinography Images: The Barn
The Barn ALEXANDER VALLEY, CA: An old barn north of Healdsburg is seen at the end of a row of Zinfandel vineyards turning orange and red color before going dormant in this Sonoma County late Fall landscape photo. INSTRUCTIONS: Download this image by right-clicking on the image and selecting "save link as" or "save target as" and then select the desired location on your computer to save the image. Mac users can also just click the image to open the full size view and drag that to their desktops. To set the image as your desktop wallpaper, Mac users... continue reading
- Posted by: Alder on December 2, 2011 8:36 PM
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Vinography Images: Redwood Valley Autumn
Redwood Valley Autumn REDWOOD VALLEY, CA: A hillside Cabernet Sauvignon vineyard turns a brilliant orange and red color in this autumn photo from Mendocino County. INSTRUCTIONS: Download this image by right-clicking on the image and selecting "save link as" or "save target as" and then select the desired location on your computer to save the image. Mac users can also just click the image to open the full size view and drag that to their desktops. To set the image as your desktop wallpaper, Mac users should follow these instructions, while PC users should follow these. PRINTS: Fine art... continue reading
- Posted by: Alder on November 25, 2011 7:51 PM
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Vinography Images: Champagne Caps
Champagne Caps REIMS, FRANCE: The caps of opened French Champagne have become a hit with collectors and are on display in this photo taken at a wine flea market in the "capital" of the Champagne region. INSTRUCTIONS: Download this image by right-clicking on the image and selecting "save link as" or "save target as" and then select the desired location on your computer to save the image. Mac users can also just click the image to open the full size view and drag that to their desktops. To set the image as your desktop wallpaper, Mac users should follow... continue reading
- Posted by: Alder on November 18, 2011 10:40 PM
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Vinography Images: Sonoma Fog
Sonoma Fog HEALDSBURG, SONOMA COUNTY, CA: A rolling hillside vineyard in front of the Hanna Vineyards tasting room and winery is seen in this winter landscape photo. INSTRUCTIONS: Download this image by right-clicking on the image and selecting "save link as" or "save target as" and then select the desired location on your computer to save the image. Mac users can also just click the image to open the full size view and drag that to their desktops. To set the image as your desktop wallpaper, Mac users should follow these instructions, while PC users should follow these. PRINTS:... continue reading
- Posted by: Alder on November 11, 2011 9:01 PM
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Vinography Images: Two Colors of Autumn
Two Colors of Autumn RUSSIAN RIVER VALLEY, SONOMA COUNTY, CA - 2009: A pinot noir grape vineyard turns red and yellow in late Fall near the town of Healdsburg. INSTRUCTIONS: Download this image by right-clicking on the image and selecting "save link as" or "save target as" and then select the desired location on your computer to save the image. Mac users can also just click the image to open the full size view and drag that to their desktops. To set the image as your desktop wallpaper, Mac users should follow these instructions, while PC users should follow... continue reading
- Posted by: Alder on November 4, 2011 9:29 AM
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Vinography Images: Halloween Vineyard
Halloween Vineyard ALEXANDER VALLEY, SONOMA COUNTY, CA: As the grape harvest winds down, a plastic Halloween pumpkin hangs from a vineyard post and the vines behind it turn their Autumn colors. INSTRUCTIONS: Download this image by right-clicking on the image and selecting "save link as" or "save target as" and then select the desired location on your computer to save the image. Mac users can also just click the image to open the full size view and drag that to their desktops. To set the image as your desktop wallpaper, Mac users should follow these instructions, while PC users... continue reading
- Posted by: Alder on October 28, 2011 10:47 PM
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Vinography Images: Noble Rot
Noble Rot MONTEREY COUNTY, CA - 2006: A closeup of a bunch of Chardonnay grapes affected by botrytis is viewed in this 2006 Salinas Valley photo. Botrytis, also known as "the Noble Rot," produces exquisite dessert wines including the famous Sauternes wines of Bordeaux. To those not shooting for unctuous sweet wines, however, Botrytis can be a problem, especially in wet years such as 2011. Indeed, California vintners are battling it even now, as harvest continues. INSTRUCTIONS: Download this image by right-clicking on the image and selecting "save link as" or "save target as" and then select the desired... continue reading
- Posted by: Alder on October 21, 2011 11:58 PM
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Vinography Images: Harvest Moon
Harvest Moon HEALDSBURG, CA - SEPTEMBER 22, 2010: A yellow harvest moon hangs above a Russian River Valley picking crew in September, 2010 in Healdsburg, California. The 2010 harvest was delayed just as this years has been by cool weather. Thanks to the last couple of days of warm weather, crews like this are swarming the vineyards of Sonoma and Napa at night, bringing in the 2011 vintage. INSTRUCTIONS: Download this image by right-clicking on the image and selecting "save link as" or "save target as" and then select the desired location on your computer to save the image.... continue reading
- Posted by: Alder on October 14, 2011 8:39 PM
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Vinography Images: Chardonnay Truck
Chardonnay Truck ANDERSON VALLEY, MENDOCINO COUNTY, CA - 2006: A truck load of chardonnay is ready to deliver to the winery for crushing. Most, but not all of the Chardonnay in California has been harvested at this point. Any left on the vine will be hanging in hopes of drying out a little after all the rain. INSTRUCTIONS: Download this image by right-clicking on the image and selecting "save link as" or "save target as" and then select the desired location on your computer to save the image. Mac users can also just click the image to open the... continue reading
- Posted by: Alder on October 7, 2011 10:21 PM
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Vinography Images: Fall Pinot
Fall Pinot UKIAH VALLEY, CA - 2007: Pinot Noir grape leaves turn color in this Autumn photograph in the heart of Mendocino County. INSTRUCTIONS: Download this image by right-clicking on the image and selecting "save link as" or "save target as" and then select the desired location on your computer to save the image. Mac users can also just click the image to open the full size view and drag that to their desktops. To set the image as your desktop wallpaper, Mac users should follow these instructions, while PC users should follow these. PRINTS: Fine art prints of... continue reading
- Posted by: Alder on September 30, 2011 11:14 PM
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Vinography Images: Harvest Cascade
Harvest Cascade ALEXANDER VALLEY, SONOMA COUNTY, CA - 2006: A vineyard worker throws a bin of harvested Cabernet Sauvignon grapes into a gondola, creating a cascade of grapes during the 2006 harvest. All around California, harvest is beginning. INSTRUCTIONS: Download this image by right-clicking on the image and selecting "save link as" or "save target as" and then select the desired location on your computer to save the image. Mac users can also just click the image to open the full size view and drag that to their desktops. To set the image as your desktop wallpaper, Mac users... continue reading
- Posted by: Alder on September 23, 2011 8:43 PM
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Vinography Images: Valley Wheat
Valley Wheat ANDERSON VALLEY, MENDOCINO COUNTY, CA - 2008: A unique collision of forest, rolling grassy hills, and green vineyards of Pinot Noir and Alsatian grape varieties makes the Anderson Valley a magical place, even when the summer heat turns the grasses and wheat to gold. INSTRUCTIONS: Download this image by right-clicking on the image and selecting "save link as" or "save target as" and then select the desired location on your computer to save the image. Mac users can also just click the image to open the full size view and drag that to their desktops. To set... continue reading
- Posted by: Alder on September 16, 2011 10:35 PM
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Vinography Images: Night Harvest
Night Harvest HEALDSBURG, CA - 2009: A bank of lights is used in the vineyard before sunrise to help workers see to pick the grapes in the Russian River Valley before the heat of the day sets in. INSTRUCTIONS: Download this image by right-clicking on the image and selecting "save link as" or "save target as" and then select the desired location on your computer to save the image. Mac users can also just click the image to open the full size view and drag that to their desktops. To set the image as your desktop wallpaper, Mac users... continue reading
- Posted by: Alder on September 9, 2011 9:31 PM
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Vinography Images: Napa Barrels
Napa Barrels NAPA VALLEY, CA - 2000: New oak barrels are ready to be filled with wine outside a winery covered in red ivy. INSTRUCTIONS: Download this image by right-clicking on the image and selecting "save link as" or "save target as" and then select the desired location on your computer to save the image. Mac users can also just click the image to open the full size view and drag that to their desktops. To set the image as your desktop wallpaper, Mac users should follow these instructions, while PC users should follow these. PRINTS: Fine art prints... continue reading
- Posted by: Alder on September 2, 2011 9:36 AM
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Vinography Images: Silverado Fog
Silverado Fog NAPA, CA - 2009: A stand of trees overlooks a vineyard and blooming mustard through the morning fog along the Silverado Trail in the Napa Valley. INSTRUCTIONS: Download this image by right-clicking on the image and selecting "save link as" or "save target as" and then select the desired location on your computer to save the image. Mac users can also just click the image to open the full size view and drag that to their desktops. To set the image as your desktop wallpaper, Mac users should follow these instructions, while PC users should follow these.... continue reading
- Posted by: Alder on August 26, 2011 10:08 PM
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Vinography Images: Santa Ynez
Santa Ynez SANTA YNEZ VALLEY, SANTA BARBARA COUNTY, CA - 2009: A lone oak in a vineyard, early morning. INSTRUCTIONS: Download this image by right-clicking on the image and selecting "save link as" or "save target as" and then select the desired location on your computer to save the image. Mac users can also just click the image to open the full size view and drag that to their desktops. To set the image as your desktop wallpaper, Mac users should follow these instructions, while PC users should follow these. PRINTS: Fine art prints of this image and others... continue reading
- Posted by: Alder on August 19, 2011 6:33 AM
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Vinography Images: Dry Creek Sheep
Dry Creek Sheep DRY CREEK VALLEY, SONOMA COUNTY, CA - 2007: A field of vineyard mustard in full bloom grazed by a flock of sheep. INSTRUCTIONS: Download this image by right-clicking on the image and selecting "save link as" or "save target as" and then select the desired location on your computer to save the image. Mac users can also just click the image to open the full size view and drag that to their desktops. To set the image as your desktop wallpaper, Mac users should follow these instructions, while PC users should follow these. PRINTS: Fine art... continue reading
- Posted by: Alder on August 12, 2011 11:30 PM
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Vinography Images: Sunflower Vineyard
Sunflower Vineyard HOPLAND, CA - 2006: Sunflowers are planted in between rows of organically grown Chardonnay grapevines near Hopland in Mendocino County. INSTRUCTIONS: Download this image by right-clicking on the image and selecting "save link as" or "save target as" and then select the desired location on your computer to save the image. Mac users can also just click the image to open the full size view and drag that to their desktops. To set the image as your desktop wallpaper, Mac users should follow these instructions, while PC users should follow these. PRINTS: Fine art prints of this... continue reading
- Posted by: Alder on August 5, 2011 4:40 PM
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Vinography Images: Veraison
Veraison ANNAPOLIS, CA - 2006: A cluster of Pinot Noir grapes is shown undergoing verasion. Annapolis is located in the cool Sonoma County coastal grape growing region. Veraison describes the point where grapes turn from their young green color into their darker hues. At the moment, many vineyards around Northern California have just begun veraison. INSTRUCTIONS: Download this image by right-clicking on the image and selecting "save link as" or "save target as" and then select the desired location on your computer to save the image. Mac users can also just click the image to open the full size... continue reading
- Posted by: Alder on July 29, 2011 11:58 PM
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Vinography Images: Veeder Vineyard
Veeder Vineyard MT. VEEDER, NAPA VALLEY, CA - 2006: A Cabernet Sauvignon vineyard is nestled between the pine trees on the slopes of Mount Veeder. INSTRUCTIONS: Download this image by right-clicking on the image and selecting "save link as" or "save target as" and then select the desired location on your computer to save the image. Mac users can also just click the image to open the full size view and drag that to their desktops. To set the image as your desktop wallpaper, Mac users should follow these instructions, while PC users should follow these. PRINTS: Fine art... continue reading
- Posted by: Alder on July 22, 2011 10:03 PM
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Vinography Images: Cabernet Clusters
Cabernet Clusters ALEXANDER VALLEY, SONOMA COUNTY, CA - 2008: A microscopic cluster of tiny cabernet sauvignon grapes begin to form on the vine. INSTRUCTIONS: Download this image by right-clicking on the image and selecting "save link as" or "save target as" and then select the desired location on your computer to save the image. Mac users can also just click the image to open the full size view and drag that to their desktops. To set the image as your desktop wallpaper, Mac users should follow these instructions, while PC users should follow these. PRINTS: Fine art prints of... continue reading
- Posted by: Alder on July 15, 2011 9:09 PM
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Vinography Images: Terraced Vineyards
Terraced Vineyard ALEXANDER VALLEY, SONOMA COUNTY, CA - 2007: A terraced hillside Cabernet Sauvignon vineyard creates interesting patterns in the Alexander Valley. INSTRUCTIONS: Download this image by right-clicking on the image and selecting "save link as" or "save target as" and then select the desired location on your computer to save the image. Mac users can also just click the image to open the full size view and drag that to their desktops. To set the image as your desktop wallpaper, Mac users should follow these instructions, while PC users should follow these. PRINTS: Fine art prints of this... continue reading
- Posted by: Alder on July 8, 2011 10:09 PM
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Vinography Images: Early Morning Sonoma
Early Morning Sonoma ALEXANDER VALLEY, SONOMA COUNTY, CA: A terraced hillside Cabernet Sauvignon vineyard stands against the early morning sky in this 2007 winter landscape photo. INSTRUCTIONS: Download this image by right-clicking on the image and selecting "save link as" or "save target as" and then select the desired location on your computer to save the image. Mac users can also just click the image to open the full size view and drag that to their desktops. To set the image as your desktop wallpaper, Mac users should follow these instructions, while PC users should follow these. PRINTS: Fine... continue reading
- Posted by: Alder on June 24, 2011 12:04 AM
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Vinography Images: Fog in the Vineyard
Fog in the Vineyard IMT. VEEDER, NAPA VALLEY, CA - 2007: As the grape harvest winds down, the vineyards take on the red and gold colors of fall in this early morning photo of Mt. Veeder, Napa Valley, California. INSTRUCTIONS: Download this image by right-clicking on the image and selecting "save link as" or "save target as" and then select the desired location on your computer to save the image. Mac users can also just click the image to open the full size view and drag that to their desktops. To set the image as your desktop wallpaper, Mac... continue reading
- Posted by: Alder on June 17, 2011 9:42 PM
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Introducing Photographer George Rose
It's that time of year. When I introduce my newest photography collaborator here on Vinography, who will bring you stunning wine related images for the next 52 weeks. I've had George Rose's images cycling through my desktop backgrounds for several weeks now, and I'm super excited about showing them to you here on Vinography. I can't exactly remember the first time I met George Rose, but I'm fairly certain he didn't have a camera in his hand. Nor did he the second or third time we met, occasions where he remembered my name, and I embarrassingly had to search my... continue reading
- Posted by: Alder on June 17, 2011 9:25 PM
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Vinography Images: Ripe Chardonnay
Ripe Chardonnay I've made it my mission to try to eat as many different types of ripe wine grapes off the vine as possible. Mostly because I'm curious about the difference between how they taste as grapes versus as finished wines (the answer is: very different). These Chardonnay grapes from Itata look perfectly munchable the day or so before they are going to be harvested. Itata is one of Chile's three most southerly wine regions, and is actually known not for Chardonnay, but for its plantings of Muscat of Alexandria. -- Alder Yarrow INSTRUCTIONS: Download this image by right-clicking... continue reading
- Posted by: Alder on June 10, 2011 10:05 PM
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Vinography Desktop: Elqui Harvest
Elqui Harvest When I was in Chile, I really wanted to get up to the Northern part of the country to see the wine regions of Elqui and Limari. These areas are newer wine regions that have historically been used to produce grapes for Pisco, the distilled spirit that is common in Chile and Peru, but increasingly, they are making table wines. This photo of tall, pergola trained vines makes me sorry I missed the region. -- Alder Yarrow INSTRUCTIONS: Download this image by right-clicking on the image and selecting "save link as" or "save target as" and then... continue reading
- Posted by: Alder on June 3, 2011 10:51 PM
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Vinography Images: Stone Winery
Stone Winery I was quite surprised on my trip to Chile to see that the majority of wineries in the country seem to be farming relatively flat ground. In the abundance of good soil and land, few had made the investment of energy and money to plant hillside vineyards. However, some of the more ambitious winery projects in Chile tend to focus more on hillside fruit, often with good results. This is an image taken from the top of one side of the amphitheater-like vineyard holdings of Altair winery in the Cachapoal Valley, and shows both the sculpted vineyards... continue reading
- Posted by: Alder on May 27, 2011 9:30 PM
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Vinography Images: Chardonnay Harvest
Chardonnay Harvest This could have been the scene many places in Chile a couple of months ago. The harvest there has completed over the past few months. These grapes are Chardonnay, from the Maule region, I believe. Chardonnay is one of the more underrated products of the Chilean wine industry, especially when made with restraint. -- Alder Yarrow INSTRUCTIONS: Download this image by right-clicking on the image and selecting "save link as" or "save target as" and then select the desired location on your computer to save the image. Mac users can also just click the image to open... continue reading
- Posted by: Alder on May 20, 2011 11:55 PM
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Vinography Images: Cachapoal Sky
Cachapoal Sky Chile has definitely got the "sky thing" down. I'm sure there's some sort of topographic and/or climatic reason for it, but the clouds and the blue are a bit more electric than other places. Here's a view above some vineyards in the Cachapoal Valley, most likely holding Cabernet, the primary grape grown in this region south of Santiago. -- Alder Yarrow INSTRUCTIONS: Download this image by right-clicking on the image and selecting "save link as" or "save target as" and then select the desired location on your computer to save the image. Mac users can also just... continue reading
- Posted by: Alder on May 13, 2011 10:31 PM
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Vinography Images: Carmenere Harvest
Carmenere Harvest This lovely image of the harvest in Chile captures the beauty and the namesake color of the Carmenere vine in the Fall. Thought for many years to be Merlot, once identified correctly Carmenere has become Chile's signature grape. And once identified correctly, and left to ripen longer than Merlot should be, it can make for some very nice wine. -- Alder Yarrow INSTRUCTIONS: Download this image by right-clicking on the image and selecting "save link as" or "save target as" and then select the desired location on your computer to save the image. Mac users can also... continue reading
- Posted by: Alder on May 6, 2011 9:44 PM
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Vinography Images: Spring Maintenance
Spring Maintenance This is generally what vineyards all over the Northern Hemisphere look like right now, and there are vineyard workers like these out doing all sorts of things that might be considered Spring maintenance. Meanwhile, in the Southern Hemisphere, where this image was taken, harvest has begun. -- Alder Yarrow INSTRUCTIONS: Download this image by right-clicking on the image and selecting "save link as" or "save target as" and then select the desired location on your computer to save the image. Mac users can also just click the image to open the full size view and drag that... continue reading
- Posted by: Alder on April 29, 2011 10:20 PM
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Vinography Images: The Wine Library
The Wine Library I always enjoy poking around in the wine cellars of wineries. I like seeing where they keep their reserve stocks -- their wine libraries of past vintages from which they carefully select a bottle to serve or share on special occasions. Something about dusty bottles thrills me, tapping into my adolescent passion for treasure hunting. -- Alder Yarrow INSTRUCTIONS: Download this image by right-clicking on the image and selecting "save link as" or "save target as" and then select the desired location on your computer to save the image. Mac users can also just click the... continue reading
- Posted by: Alder on April 22, 2011 8:58 PM
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Vinography Images: Across the Valley
Across the Valley This is a classic view of Chilean wine country, with gently rolling hills on the valley floor and the mountains and stark blue sky. I believe this is a view across the Carmenere vineyards of Casa Silva called Los Lingues, about 80 miles south of Santiago in the Colchagua valley -- Alder Yarrow INSTRUCTIONS: Download this image by right-clicking on the image and selecting "save link as" or "save target as" and then select the desired location on your computer to save the image. Mac users can also just click the image to open the full... continue reading
- Posted by: Alder on April 15, 2011 9:09 PM
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Vinography Images: The Wilds of Bio Bio
The Wilds of Bio Bio One of the wine regions I really wanted to visit, but didn't get a chance to while I was in Chile was Bio Bio. Several of Chile's wine regions are "frontier-like" but Bio Bio is very much a new frontier of cool-climate winegrowing. While I was in Chile I heard rumblings of top producers from Burgundy falling in love with the region, which seems poised to be a potential source of excellent Sauvignon Blanc, Pinot Noir, and, in the case of the vines shown here, Chardonnay. -- Alder Yarrow INSTRUCTIONS: Download this image by... continue reading
- Posted by: Alder on April 8, 2011 8:44 PM
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Vinography Images: Rolling Vineyards
Rolling Vineyards Nicely tended vineyards have a wonderful effect on rolling hills, turning them into sculpture. The hills above are found in the lovely winegrowing region of Leyda in Central Chile. Cooled by breezes from the sea, Leyda has become known for its Sauvignon Blanc. -- Alder Yarrow INSTRUCTIONS: Download this image by right-clicking on the image and selecting "save link as" or "save target as" and then select the desired location on your computer to save the image. Mac users can also just click the image to open the full size view and drag that to their desktops.... continue reading
- Posted by: Alder on April 1, 2011 11:58 PM
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Vinography Images: Spring Storm in Colchagua
Spring Storm in Colchagua Chile is a land of extremes, thanks to its extremely varied, and tightly woven topography, where steep Andean peaks dive down to rich valleys that range from deserts to lush green swards that very quickly lead to the coast. Weather comes from many directions and can often be fierce. But in its aftermath there is sometimes great beauty, as storm clouds dissapate over rolling hills of beautiful green vines. -- Alder Yarrow INSTRUCTIONS: Download this image by right-clicking on the image and selecting "save link as" or "save target as" and then select the desired... continue reading
- Posted by: Alder on March 25, 2011 8:55 PM
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Vinography Images: Maule Sunset
Maule Sunset The Maule wine region sits roughly in the center of Chile's long reach from North to South, and is one of the oldest sites of viticulture in the country. In my opinion it contains one of the world's great viticultural treasures: lots of little pockets of ancient, dry-farmed, bush vines of Carignane, some of them more than 100 years old. These vines are gradually being rescued from near death and neglect by winemakers who are using them to make some of Chile's most exciting wines. The vines shown here in the fading light of the sunset aren't... continue reading
- Posted by: Alder on March 18, 2011 10:02 PM
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Vinography Images: Cabernet Flower
Cabernet Flower It's only a matter of time before the gradually warming days here in the Northern Hemisphere bring forth new shoots on the vines that will soon be followed by the delicate little flowers that hint at the beginnings of next year's harvest. For now, however, we can just admire this one. -- Alder Yarrow INSTRUCTIONS: Download this image by right-clicking on the image and selecting "save link as" or "save target as" and then select the desired location on your computer to save the image. Mac users can also just click the image to open the full... continue reading
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Vinography Images: Cabernet and Mountains
Cabernet and Mountains Call it the perfect pairing: Autumn Cabernet vines in the Maipo valley, set against the cordillera of the Andes. Chilean wine country has some of the world's greatest scenery thanks to the incredibly massive mountains that stand as a backdrop to many of its regions. -- Alder Yarrow INSTRUCTIONS: Download this image by right-clicking on the image and selecting "save link as" or "save target as" and then select the desired location on your computer to save the image. Mac users can also just click the image to open the full size view and drag that... continue reading
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Vinography Images: Colchagua Sky
Colchagua Sky Sometimes I like to think of grapes as the permeable membrane that separates the earth from the sky. They take in the sunlight and the air and they channel the water and the soil into their leaves and fruit. Which makes wine a bit of bottled sunshine, and the chemical embodiment of a season's weather. This photo shows the dramatic Chilean sky above the Colchagua valley. -- Alder Yarrow INSTRUCTIONS: Download this image by right-clicking on the image and selecting "save link as" or "save target as" and then select the desired location on your computer to... continue reading
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Vinography Images: The Harvest Race
The Harvest Race If you've never seen workers racing to get the harvest in, lugging 20 kilogram boxes of grapes at a rapid clip you're missing something of the picture of all the hard work that goes into wine. Harvesting is back-breaking work, even when you're not carrying the grapes on your head, like this worker at Casa Lapostolle's Clos Apalta winery in Chile. -- Alder Yarrow INSTRUCTIONS: Download this image by right-clicking on the image and selecting "save link as" or "save target as" and then select the desired location on your computer to save the image. Mac... continue reading
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Vinography Images: Hall of Barrels
Hall of Barrels This is a view down one of the long arms of the Miguel Torres Real wine cellar in Spain. The Torres family runs one of Spain's most well known wine dynasties, stretching back to their founding in 1870. The Torres name is now prominent on three continents, Europe, South America, and The U.S. -- Alder Yarrow INSTRUCTIONS: Download this image by right-clicking on the image and selecting "save link as" or "save target as" and then select the desired location on your computer to save the image. Mac users can also just click the image to... continue reading
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Vinography Images: Against the Andes
Against the Andes All my favorite wine regions around the world have at least one unique feature, apart from their wines, that make them special. It's hard to miss Argentina's -- the incredible backdrop that the Andes play to the gentle sloping plateau of Mendoza wine country is one of the wine world's greatest vistas. The view is so stunning, it might actually make the wine taste even better than it does naturally. -- Alder Yarrow INSTRUCTIONS: Download this image by right-clicking on the image and selecting "save link as" or "save target as" and then select the desired... continue reading
- Posted by: Alder on February 4, 2011 4:29 PM
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Vinography Images: Pedro Jimenez
Pedro Jimenez Though this may look like an ordinary bunch of white grapes, it's really something much more special with an interesting story behind it. This grape variety is known as Pedro Jimenez in Chile (elsewhere known as Pedro Ximénez) and only a very small planting of this grape exists in Chile's far northern Elqui valley, where I believe it is used to make the distilled spirit called Pisco. Whenever I see a grape so clearly named after a person, I'm always super curious about the story. It turns out that this grape got its name from the guy... continue reading
- Posted by: Alder on January 28, 2011 5:27 PM
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Vinography Images: Young Carmenere
Young Carmenere A budding leaf of new Carmenere growth bursts from a pruned cane. Carmenere has accidentally become Chile's signature grape. Imported early in the 19th Century to Chile by Bordeaux wine growers, it was mistaken for Merlot for more than a century before being properly identified for what it was. Carmenere is one of the more ancient French grape varieties, and is suspected of being an early clonal variety of Cabernet Franc. Despite being one of the historic components of Bordeaux, it is now grown almost exclusively in Chile. -- Alder Yarrow INSTRUCTIONS: Download this image by right-clicking... continue reading
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Vinography Images: Vineyard Poppies
Vineyard Poppies California Poppies are soon to come on the rapidly greening hillsides of Northern California as we turn the corner towards Spring. Of course in the Southern Hemisphere, fruit is hanging heavy on the vine a couple of months before harvest. But a Spring-like mood drew me to this image from the Casa Lapostolle Clos Apalta winery in Chile. -- Alder Yarrow INSTRUCTIONS: Download this image by right-clicking on the image and selecting "save link as" or "save target as" and then select the desired location on your computer to save the image. Mac users can also just... continue reading
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Vinography Images: Young Cabernet
Young Cabernet In the Casablanca valley, a lone tree is surrounded by young Cabernet Sauvignon vines, just emerging from their protective covers. The first plantings of Cabernet (or anything else for that matter) in Chile were traditionally on the flat, easy-to-farm land, but increasingly ambitious winemakers are pursuing hillside vineyards. That is, when they have access to the water to do so. At this point, the water rights to irrigate this vineyard probably cost more than the land itself. -- Alder Yarrow INSTRUCTIONS: Download this image by right-clicking on the image and selecting "save link as" or "save target... continue reading
- Posted by: Alder on January 7, 2011 8:28 PM
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Vinography Images: Huaso and Pinot
Huaso and Pinot Framed against the blue sky at sunset, a huaso prepares to saddle up as the last light fades from a set of Pinot Noir vines in the Casablanca Valley. Huasos are traditional Chilean horsemen, the equivalent of American Cowboys or Argentine Gauchos. Easily spotted because of their traditional ponchos and straw hats called chupallas, huasos are a fixture of the country's central valley, though, like American Cowboys, they are now more folkloric symbols of a previous era than a part of the dominant culture. -- Alder Yarrow INSTRUCTIONS: Download this image by right-clicking on the image... continue reading
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Vinography Images: Mystic Cellar
Mystic Cellar One of my greatest regrets from my visit to Argentina, apart from not taking the time to visit Salta, was failing to visit this cellar. The O Fournier winery is exceptional in many ways, but especially in its architecture, which this image only hints at, with the precisely crossed rays of daylight facilitated by a remarkable structure you can't really see. And the wine ain't bad either. If you're in the Valle de Uco, you really shouldn't miss it. -- Alder Yarrow INSTRUCTIONS: Download this image by right-clicking on the image and selecting "save link as" or... continue reading
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Vinography Images: Morning Mist
Morning Mist One of the things that I sometimes think would ensure I could never be a great photographer is that I like to sleep late in the morning. That means I miss out on half of the really good light there is for taking pictures, as this gorgeous view of Chile's Maule Valley demonstrates. -- Alder Yarrow INSTRUCTIONS: Download this image by right-clicking on the image and selecting "save link as" or "save target as" and then select the desired location on your computer to save the image. Mac users can also just click the image to open... continue reading
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Vinography Images: Harvest Burden
Harvest Burden South American wine regions have a frontier-like quality, a rusticity that has been bred out of some other new world regions. The ruggedness of the Andes certainly contributes to this feeling, but then there are little touches, like the branches that these workers are using to carry freshly harvested Syrah in the Choapa Valley. Old school technology. -- Alder Yarrow INSTRUCTIONS: Download this image by right-clicking on the image and selecting "save link as" or "save target as" and then select the desired location on your computer to save the image. Mac users can also just click... continue reading
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Vinography Images: Vineyard Flowers
Vineyard Flowers In we're now in the midst of summer in the southern hemisphere, but in some cases you can still find wildflowers blooming on the hills above Chile's fertile valleys. Here we look down on the Colchagua valley and the vineyards of Los Vascos. -- Alder Yarrow INSTRUCTIONS: Download this image by right-clicking on the image and selecting "save link as" or "save target as" and then select the desired location on your computer to save the image. Mac users can also just click the image to open the full size view and drag that to their desktops.... continue reading
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Vinography Images: Vineyards on the Moon
Vineyards on the Moon One of the great things about Chile, where photographer Matt Wilson makes his home and does much of his shooting, has to be the dramatic variety of vineyard landscapes available to the intrepid wine traveler. From the lush green river valleys like Colchagua to the high mountain sites like this Huasco Valley, Chile's wine topography is stunning. -- Alder Yarrow INSTRUCTIONS: Download this image by right-clicking on the image and selecting "save link as" or "save target as" and then select the desired location on your computer to save the image. Mac users can also... continue reading
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My Burgundy Photographs
I'm still a bit too jet lagged to be of much use after my trip to Burgundy. I've got a lot of fantastic producers and wines to write about, as well as the fabulous weekend of the Hospices de Beaune, but I need to clear my head a little, and get more sleep. What I did manage to do on the plane, however, was sort through some of my pictures from the trip, which many of you have asked for. So in the meantime, here's some highlights. For those of you unfamiliar with this browsing interface, there are 33 photos... continue reading
- Posted by: Alder on November 24, 2010 9:27 PM
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Vinography Images: Above the Valley
Above the Valley This is a photograph of the El Olivar Vineyards of Viu Manent in Chile's Colchagua valley. I love how many different shades of green this valley contains. -- Alder Yarrow INSTRUCTIONS: Download this image by right-clicking on the image and selecting "save link as" or "save target as" and then select the desired location on your computer to save the image. Mac users can also just click the image to open the full size view and drag that to their desktops. To set the image as your desktop wallpaper, Mac users should follow these instructions, while... continue reading
- Posted by: Alder on November 19, 2010 9:44 AM
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Vinography Images: Bright Harvest
Bright Harvest There's something magically clear and bright about the light in Chile. Less ozone perhaps, especially in some areas. Or maybe the combination of the Andes and the Pacific leads to unusually clear air, and the bright light that can make colors come alive. This is a photo of vineyard workers at Casa Silva's Los Lingues Estate. -- Alder Yarrow INSTRUCTIONS: Download this image by right-clicking on the image and selecting "save link as" or "save target as" and then select the desired location on your computer to save the image. Mac users can also just click the... continue reading
- Posted by: Alder on November 12, 2010 10:31 PM
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Vinography Images: Mendoza Sunset
Mendoza Sunset We had a sunset just like this tonight in San Francisco. OK, maybe without the Andes. But just as impressive. Of course, I wish that I had been in Mendoza, instead, where Matt took this picture. I've been thinking about Argentina all afternoon after receiving an e-mail from a friend there. Let's all go drink some Malbec. -- Alder Yarrow INSTRUCTIONS: Download this image by right-clicking on the image and selecting "save link as" or "save target as" and then select the desired location on your computer to save the image. Mac users can also just click... continue reading
- Posted by: Alder on November 5, 2010 9:13 PM
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Vinography Images: The Coming Storm
The Coming Storm This image of a post-harvest vineyard in the face of a coming storm in Chile's Colchagua valley seemed in keeping with the waves of rain that are rolling off the Pacific here in California, making for a tricky dance for most vintners who still have fruit out in the vineyards. Will it get sunny here at the end of October, or will those who didn't get all the fruit in by now live to regret the decision? We shall see. In the meantime, we watch the clouds gather. -- Alder Yarrow INSTRUCTIONS: Download this image by... continue reading
- Posted by: Alder on October 29, 2010 5:24 PM
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Vinography Images: Pruning Leaves
Pruning Leaves Harvest involves a flurry of activity in the vineyard in preparation for the crews that move through in darkness to begin removing fruit. This image shows workers in Chile's Maule Valley removing leaves from the vines just before harvest, to get one last little bit of sun on the grapes, as well as to make it easier for the crews (or the machines) to do their early morning work. -- Alder Yarrow INSTRUCTIONS: Download this image by right-clicking on the image and selecting "save link as" or "save target as" and then select the desired location on... continue reading
- Posted by: Alder on October 22, 2010 11:41 PM
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Vinography Images: Punchdown
Punchdown There's an awful lot of this going on around the Northern Hemisphere. Harvest is in full swing, especially for those grapes that tend to be left to hang a bit longer like Syrah, and Cabernet. This is the view down into a vat of Merlot. It's a view that winemakers probably get a little tired of, but for those of us who don't see it too regularly, it's quite delicious. -- Alder Yarrow INSTRUCTIONS: Download this image by right-clicking on the image and selecting "save link as" or "save target as" and then select the desired location on... continue reading
- Posted by: Alder on October 15, 2010 9:16 PM
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Vinography Images: Stairway to Heaven?
Stairway to Heaven? There aren't many things that truly inspire lust among wine lovers but a view like this would certainly be one of them. Call it a stairway to heaven, leading down, instead of up. You're looking at the library cellar of Casa Lapostolle's Clos Apalta in Chile, whose wine is widely regarded as the single best in the country. The winery itself is as beautiful as the cellar might suggest, but we'll leave that scene for another day. -- Alder Yarrow INSTRUCTIONS: Download this image by right-clicking on the image and selecting "save link as" or "save... continue reading
- Posted by: Alder on October 8, 2010 9:07 AM
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Vinography Images: Pumping Over
Pumping Over Throughout the Northern Hemisphere, harvest is underway. Already there are tanks and barrels bubbling away with the 2010 vintage. In Chile's Malleco valley, where this tank of Pinot Noir was being pumped over, however, the vines have just begun to bear fruit, and it will be some time before their tanks, of the 2011 vintage look like this again. -- Alder Yarrow INSTRUCTIONS: Download this image by right-clicking on the image and selecting "save link as" or "save target as" and then select the desired location on your computer to save the image. Mac users can also... continue reading
- Posted by: Alder on October 1, 2010 11:39 PM
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Vinography Images: Vines and Sky
Vines and Sky One of the things that makes wine so magical is the alchemy that it embodies. The vine's ability to fuse the products of earth and sky into something that somehow can express the sunlight and the soil is fantastic and amazing. When I look at vineyard landscapes I always see the sky as a foil for the vineyard, the matrix in which the green gem of the vineyard is embedded. The vineyard in the photo is a plot of Pinot Noir from Vina Tabali La Serena in Chile's Limari wine region. -- Alder Yarrow INSTRUCTIONS: Download... continue reading
- Posted by: Alder on September 24, 2010 9:33 PM
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Vinography Images: Vines in Autumn
Vines in Autumn Harvest has begun in many places in the northern hemisphere as autumn is fast approaching. Soon the vines will look like these, from Chile's Maule Valley. We don't get many trees changing color here in the Bay Area, so colors like this are what we have to be satisfied with for Autumn. -- Alder Yarrow INSTRUCTIONS: Download this image by right-clicking on the image and selecting "save link as" or "save target as" and then select the desired location on your computer to save the image. Mac users can also just click the image to open... continue reading
- Posted by: Alder on September 17, 2010 8:54 PM
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Vinography Images: The Cellar
The Cellar Old wine cellars are magical places. One of my favorite smells in the world is the damp woody winey smell of a barrel cellar. And when they have the patina of ancient use like this cellar at Casillero del Diablo in Chile, they're a feast for the eyes as well. -- Alder Yarrow INSTRUCTIONS: Download this image by right-clicking on the image and selecting "save link as" or "save target as" and then select the desired location on your computer to save the image. Mac users can also just click the image to open the full size... continue reading
- Posted by: Alder on September 10, 2010 8:25 PM
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Vinography Images: The Old Way
The Old Way Vineyards have gone through several evolutions in how they are planted. At first, the vines were planted willy-nilly, at incredibly high densities, and were only (could only) be worked by hand. Then as the use of horses became common in European agriculture, the vineyards were replanted in regular rows to allow them to be worked in just the same way as this picture from the Apalta Valley demonstrates. Some, like this gentleman, still choose to work vineyards this way, even as vineyards are now planted with spacing to allow tractors between the rows. -- Alder Yarrow... continue reading
- Posted by: Alder on September 3, 2010 8:31 PM
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Vinography Images: Winemaker's Cottage
Winemaker's Cottage This is a photograph of the cottage where the winemaker for J. Bouchon winery lives in Chile's Maule Valley. I never really imagine myself as a winemaker or winegrower (I'd much rather just drink the stuff, and I tend to kill plants) but if I were so inclined, I'd definitely want to live in the middle of my vineyards. It seems to me that if you are going to tie your livelihood to plants, and if you aspire to grow them to the peak of perfection, you should live with them for as much of your day... continue reading
- Posted by: Alder on August 27, 2010 11:25 AM
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Vinography Images: Southern Pinot
Southern Pinot One of my greatest regrets from my trip to Chile last year was that I didn't have the time to get down to the tiny region of Biobio to check out one of the new frontiers of extreme winegrowing. One of the most southerly winegrowing regions in the world, this small, cool appellation has begun to yield some very interesting fruit, but perhaps of most interest is the Pinot Noir, shown here in all its Fall harvest glory. There aren't many wineries down in Biobio, but many top producers are starting to put in vineyards there, so... continue reading
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Vinography Images: Sunset Valley
Sunset Valley This is a great view of the Aconcagua valley, one of the more stunning wine regions in Chile. Dotted with small towns alongside the river, with stark mountain slopes that spring up steeply from the alluvial plains, if you like wine (and avocados, which grow on nearly every slope not planted with grapevines) the Aconcagua valley is an Eden of sorts. -- Alder Yarrow INSTRUCTIONS: Download this image by right-clicking on the image and selecting "save link as" or "save target as" and then select the desired location on your computer to save the image. Mac users... continue reading
- Posted by: Alder on August 10, 2010 10:11 PM
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Introducing Photographer Matt Wilson
One of my little side projects around here is to bring you beautiful images of vineyard and wine country landscapes on a fairly regular basis under the banner "Vinography Images." I've had year-long partnerships with some of the best wine photographers in the world, and I'm thrilled to introduce my latest partnership with photographer Matt Wilson. I first encountered Wilson through his portraits of some of Chile's youngest winemakers, and went on to enjoy his excellent landscapes of South American vineyards. Matt lives in Chile and has photographed all over Chile and Argentina, as well as other wine regions around... continue reading
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Vinography Images: The Golden Oak
The Golden Oak One of my favorite features of Northern California vineyards are the majestic oaks that shade many of them, breaking the regularity of the vine rows with their grand reaches -- Alder Yarrow INSTRUCTIONS: Download this image by right-clicking on the image and selecting "save link as" or "save target as" and then select the desired location on your computer to save the image. Mac users can also just click the image to open the full size view and drag that to their desktops. To set the image as your desktop wallpaper, Mac users should follow these... continue reading
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Vinography Images: Wine Country Sunset
Wine Country Sunset Great sunsets can be found anywhere, but this particular one happens to be from Sonoma County's wine country. Just below the silhouettes of the trees, rows of grape vines lie in shadow. -- Alder Yarrow INSTRUCTIONS: Download this image by right-clicking on the image and selecting "save link as" or "save target as" and then select the desired location on your computer to save the image. Mac users can also just click the image to open the full size view and drag that to their desktops. To set the image as your desktop wallpaper, Mac users... continue reading
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Vinography Images: Old Souls
Old Souls I love the individual personalities of older vines like these head-pruned vines that are grown without any trellising or training. These young green shoots will eventually become wild mops of growth as the Spring progresses, like hundreds of green fountains sprouting from the dry soil. Vines like these often receive no irrigation other than what may fall from the sky,but from their gnarled roots and serpentine canes of green, they often yield the most complex of fruit. -- Alder Yarrow INSTRUCTIONS: Download this image by right-clicking on the image and selecting "save link as" or "save target... continue reading
- Posted by: Alder on February 12, 2010 11:08 PM
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Vinography Images: Patterns
Patterns Vineyards aren't easy things to photograph. They sprawl and spread all over everywhere, and don't exactly stay confined in the frame of a photograph well, not to mention their tendency to seem monotonous in their rows. I like this image not only for the compression of space that turns the vines into patterns, but also because in the midst of the regular geometry, you can see each individual vine has its own personality -- Alder Yarrow INSTRUCTIONS: Download this image by right-clicking on the image and selecting "save link as" or "save target as" and then select the... continue reading
- Posted by: Alder on February 5, 2010 11:13 PM
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Vinography Images: After the Rain
After the Rain It's been awful wet these past few weeks in wine country so I thought I'd share this image from Andy Katz. Perhaps this weekend we'll get a little sun. -- Alder Yarrow INSTRUCTIONS: Download this image by right-clicking on the image and selecting "save link as" or "save target as" and then select the desired location on your computer to save the image. Mac users can also just click the image to open the full size view and drag that to their desktops. To set the image as your desktop wallpaper, Mac users should follow these... continue reading
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Vinography Images: Between the Rows
Between The Rows I haven't been to Napa in Months, but I'm headed up there in a few weeks and looking forward to sights like this. This time of year the mustard makes for gorgeous scenery, growing up between the rows and catching every ray of light in sight to create a backdrop of glowing yellow for the dark rain-sodden vines -- Alder Yarrow INSTRUCTIONS: Download this image by right-clicking on the image and selecting "save link as" or "save target as" and then select the desired location on your computer to save the image. Mac users can also... continue reading
- Posted by: Alder on January 22, 2010 9:33 PM
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Vinography Images: The New Green
The New Green For the most part in the Northern Hemisphere, the vines are sleeping -- their long bare canes waving in the winter wind. Soon those will fall under the deft hands and sharp blades of workers who will leave the vines ready for the new growth that will burst forth in the coming months. Andy Katz gives us a preview of what is to come -- Alder Yarrow INSTRUCTIONS: Download this image by right-clicking on the image and selecting "save link as" or "save target as" and then select the desired location on your computer to save... continue reading
- Posted by: Alder on January 15, 2010 8:28 PM
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Vinography Images: Fall Leaves
Fall Leaves One of the things that I miss most about where I grew up in Colorado is the Fall colors. The Aspen trees as shocks of gold in clearings between the dark firs always bring a smile to my face. The closest I get in California these days are the changing of the leaves in wine country. This image captures so well the beauty of the light and the leaves and the carpet of gold and red that can give me a little solace in Autumn. -- Alder Yarrow INSTRUCTIONS: Download this image by right-clicking on the image... continue reading
- Posted by: Alder on January 8, 2010 8:40 PM
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Vinography Images: The Green Leaf
The Green Leaf You can tell a lot about a grape vine from its leaves. Among other things, according to the science of ampelography, you can often tell what grape variety it is, especially if you get to see what a bunch of grapes looks like as well. Most species have a distinctly shaped leaf and cluster. The color of the leaf will also tell you things about the nutritional state of the grapevine, with dark green indicating well hydrated, well nitrated vines, and lighter green indicating less nutrients (which is actually sometimes the desired state). I, unfortunately, don't... continue reading
- Posted by: Alder on December 4, 2009 7:41 PM
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Vinography Images: The Sphere
The Sphere Grape or sculpture? I might just pay money for a handblown glass lamp resembling this luminous sphere of soon-to-be-wine, it's veined translucent body glowing with afternoon sun. As with other images from Andy, I marvel at the beauty of this individual berry, so often ignored as we think on the scale of cluster most of the time. -- Alder Yarrow INSTRUCTIONS: Download this image by right-clicking on the image and selecting "save link as" or "save target as" and then select the desired location on your computer to save the image. Mac users can also just click... continue reading
- Posted by: Alder on November 27, 2009 11:51 PM
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Vinography Images: One Berry
One Berry The first time I tasted a Cabernet grape I was surprised at how unlike Cabernet wine it tasted. Some of the flavor lies in that bright leathery surface that Andy captures here so well in vivid blue. Grape skins hold many different volatile aroma compounds (some of which are also found in the juicy flesh of the berry) that contribute to the flavors of the wine. Just biting into a ripe berry isn't quite the same as tasting that same berry in a bottle three years later. They still taste pretty damn good, though. -- Alder Yarrow... continue reading
- Posted by: Alder on November 20, 2009 10:21 PM
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Vinography Images: Golden Globes
Golden Globes Andy's close-up images of grapes are really special. The translucency of the skin with the light shining through reminds me that each berry is this tiny little body, with its own anatomy and structure. Each golden globe is a complete system, a little planet unto itself. -- Alder Yarrow INSTRUCTIONS: Download this image by right-clicking on the image and selecting "save link as" or "save target as" and then select the desired location on your computer to save the image. Mac users can also just click the image to open the full size view and drag that... continue reading
- Posted by: Alder on November 14, 2009 2:31 PM
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Vinography Images: Fresh Fruit
Fresh Fruit I love the color in this image, and the bright wetness of the fruit and its motion into the destemmer. This fruit is alive and just waiting to be tasted. This is the top end of the destemmer, on the bottom end, each of these fat little blueberries will roll down the sorting table to be picked at by expert eyes and hands, ensuring that the fruit that is finally crushed (or dumped whole) into the fermenters is as pristine as possible. -- Alder Yarrow INSTRUCTIONS: Download this image by right-clicking on the image and selecting "save... continue reading
- Posted by: Alder on November 6, 2009 9:11 PM
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Vinography Images: The Harvest
The Harvest This image needs little introduction. It captures the tireless work that is still going on in vineyards all over the Northern Hemisphere, but which will shortly cease. Many of the vintners I've talked to are finished with harvest, or plan to be by this weekend. And after an intense month or two, the folks who work in the fields at sunrise are able to sleep in a little later these days. This image was made in Sonoma County, and presumably, these are Chardonnay grapes. -- Alder Yarrow INSTRUCTIONS: Download this image by right-clicking on the image and... continue reading
- Posted by: Alder on October 30, 2009 10:17 PM
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Vinography Images: Golden Globe
Golden Globe I love how this little grape looks like its own little universe. Zoom in farther and it might resemble those fabulous images we get back from the Hubble telescope. Except instead of stars we'd have little colonies of yeast populating the vast curving singularity of the grape time continuum. -- Alder Yarrow INSTRUCTIONS: Download this image by right-clicking on the image and selecting "save link as" or "save target as" and then select the desired location on your computer to save the image. Mac users can also just click the image to open the full size view... continue reading
- Posted by: Alder on October 9, 2009 10:33 PM
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Vinography Images: Heavenly Light
Heavenly Light When I saw this photo I felt like I instantly recognized the location. Not that I knew the specific vineyard, but merely that it reminded me of so many early mornings in the Russian River Valley, where the sun creeps above the fog and then penetrates it, gradually bringing light to the nooks and crannies of rustic dirt roads and stands of dew-laden trees. -- Alder Yarrow INSTRUCTIONS: Download this image by right-clicking on the image and selecting "save link as" or "save target as" and then select the desired location on your computer to save the... continue reading
- Posted by: Alder on October 2, 2009 8:15 PM
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Vinography Images: In The Mustard
In the Mustard Mustard, a common signature of Spring vineyards in Napa may be pretty to look at, but it also plays a valuable role in viticulture, as do all cover crops. These crops, grown between the rows, compete with the vines for moisture and nutrients, which places an additional healthy stress on the vines and can cause them to ripen earlier. Mustard is often mown after it grows, or even turned under the soil, where it adds back nitrogen. -- Alder Yarrow INSTRUCTIONS: Download this image by right-clicking on the image and selecting "save link as" or "save... continue reading
- Posted by: Alder on September 11, 2009 11:12 PM
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Vinography Images: Vine Color
Vine Color Harvest has begun in many places in North America, and soon the vines will begin to take on their fall colors. As someone who grew up with a distinct Autumn, marked by brilliant color, I cherish the few signs of that season we get here in northern California. Especially the vines in their various hues -- Alder Yarrow INSTRUCTIONS: Download this image by right-clicking on the image and selecting "save link as" or "save target as" and then select the desired location on your computer to save the image. Mac users can also just click the image... continue reading
- Posted by: Alder on September 4, 2009 11:12 PM
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Vinography Images: Old Vine
Old Vine The whorls and gnarls of old vines are like fingerprints. I never get tired of looking at their stocky twisted shapes. I thought their shapes are best appreciated against a background of mustard flowers, but that was because I had never seen one in a field of daisies. -- Alder Yarrow INSTRUCTIONS: Download this image by right-clicking on the image and selecting "save link as" or "save target as" and then select the desired location on your computer to save the image. Mac users can also just click the image to open the full size view and... continue reading
- Posted by: Alder on August 28, 2009 10:57 PM
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Vinography Images: Taking Wing
Taking Wing I love great photographs of vineyards, which is mostly why I try to bring you a new image from photographer Andy Katz each week. The best vineyard photographs though have a little something special about them in addition to the raw natural beauty that they so often possess. This is a perfect example of a gorgeous image, made even more special by the hawk caught mid take-off from the middle of this Sonoma vineyard. -- Alder Yarrow INSTRUCTIONS: Download this image by right-clicking on the image and selecting "save link as" or "save target as" and then... continue reading
- Posted by: Alder on August 18, 2009 10:59 PM
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Vinography Images: The Russian River
The Russian River Somewhere deep in the fog of this image, grapes are busy growing. This is the engine that makes the Pinot Noir of the Russian River Valley so wonderful. The river acts as a catheter, drawing the fog inland to cool the grapes and provide the large diurnal shifts in temperature necessary to grow world class Pinot and Chardonnay. -- Alder Yarrow INSTRUCTIONS: Download this image by right-clicking on the image and selecting "save link as" or "save target as" and then select the desired location on your computer to save the image. Mac users can also... continue reading
- Posted by: Alder on July 31, 2009 10:55 PM
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Vinography Images: Leaf and Grapes
Leaf and Grapes I love the structure of leaves, and their translucent quality that reveals it in the sun. And of course, at certain times of the year, as the leaves change, we get to see their details amplified into glorious color. -- Alder Yarrow INSTRUCTIONS: Download this image by right-clicking on the image and selecting "save link as" or "save target as" and then select the desired location on your computer to save the image. Mac users can also just click the image to open the full size view and drag that to their desktops. To set the... continue reading
- Posted by: Alder on July 25, 2009 7:10 PM
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Vinography Images: The Sunlit Knoll
The Sunlit Knoll We tend to think of Napa and Sonoma as two distinct and separate wine regions, yet there is a place where the two collide, high in the Mayacamas mountains. This image was made in the rolling hillsides where vineyards slide quickly from one appellation to the other as you cross ridges and valleys. -- Alder Yarrow INSTRUCTIONS: Download this image by right-clicking on the image and selecting "save link as" or "save target as" and then select the desired location on your computer to save the image. Mac users can also just click the image to... continue reading
- Posted by: Alder on July 18, 2009 11:19 PM
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Vinography Images: Morning Dew
Morning Dew It often comes as a surprise to most people that I happen to have a degree in fine art photography. I absolutely adore the medium, and this picture is a great example of why. We move through our daily existences that involve the processing of an incredible amount of visual data. We see beautiful details like this every few seconds of our waking lives. But only photography, with its ability to silently solidify our vision and force us to see again, can really harness this beauty for our appreciation. For as much as we see things like... continue reading
- Posted by: Alder on July 11, 2009 4:01 PM
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Vinography Images: Highlights
Highlights Vineyards become the most dramatic at the end of the day, when, like mountain ridges, they can be caught by the last light of the sun. I love this image, both for the way the light rakes across the rows of vines, but also for the subtle depth of the landscape in the haze beyond the foreground. The willingness to wait for moments like this separates the average photographer from pros like Andy. -- Alder Yarrow INSTRUCTIONS: Download this image by right-clicking on the image and selecting "save link as" or "save target as" and then select the... continue reading
- Posted by: Alder on July 3, 2009 9:32 PM
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Vinography Images: Lone Trees
Lone Trees Every week, photographer Andy Katz sends me a new image to post here for your viewing pleasure. I never know what I'm going to get, but I do know that it's going to be good. This week, when I opened his e-mail, something different happened. Everything got quiet, and I smelled freshly cut grass, bee pollen, and felt a warm breeze.... Amazingly, we are not lost, but I wouldn't care if we were. Just as I give up and decide we have no idea where we are, another road sign appears that tells us indeed, we are... continue reading
- Posted by: Alder on June 26, 2009 11:02 PM
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Vinography Images: A New Leaf
A New Leaf So much attention is paid to the fruit of the vine. Everything in wine, at least from the standpoint of the drinker, is about the grapes. Grape vines are particularly beautiful, though, especially as they are just unfurling their downy little leaves as Andy has so nicely captured here. And more than beautiful, leaves play a crucial role in displaying the health of the vine, shading the fruit, and converting sunlight into the sugars from which we derive so much pleasure. -- Alder Yarrow INSTRUCTIONS: Download this image by right-clicking on the image and selecting "save... continue reading
- Posted by: Alder on June 19, 2009 10:11 PM
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Vinography Images: Below the Fog
Below the Fog While I often find myself praying for sun in San Francisco, I don't ever tire of the fog in wine country. The bright gray blanket and its tendrils have the remarkable quality of making the colors of the earth and vines so much brighter and more vivid. This shot from a Sonoma vineyard is the perfect illustration of this effect. -- Alder Yarrow INSTRUCTIONS: Download this image by right-clicking on the image and selecting "save link as" or "save target as" and then select the desired location on your computer to save the image. Mac users... continue reading
- Posted by: Alder on June 12, 2009 10:20 PM
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Vinography Images: The Golden Glow
The Golden Glow As anyone who has spend more than a little time there knows, wine country is a special place. Sure, during the day it may be teeming with tourists, hot and dusty, and unglamorous as hell. But when the sun dips low on the horizon, things quiet down, and the light turns golden, there's no place on earth like it. -- Alder Yarrow INSTRUCTIONS: Download this image by right-clicking on the image and selecting "save link as" or "save target as" and then select the desired location on your computer to save the image. Mac users can... continue reading
- Posted by: Alder on May 29, 2009 9:14 PM
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Vinography Images: Medium Toast
Medium Toast In general, the less a barrel is toasted, the more tannins and other wood characteristics will be leached into the wine by the alcohol. Wine matured in lightly toasted barrels therefore tends to taste 'oaky,' 'woody' or even 'vegetal,' while wine matured in heavily toasted barrels is more likely to taste 'toasty' or 'spicy.' Barrels that are classified as Heavy Toast have been toasted for about 15 minutes at 440 degrees. -- The Oxford Companion to Wine INSTRUCTIONS: Download this image by right-clicking on the image and selecting "save link as" or "save target as" and then... continue reading
- Posted by: Alder on May 22, 2009 9:13 PM
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Vinography Images: Last Rays Vineyard
Last Rays Vineyard The only thing that would improve this view of a Paso Robles vineyard at sunset would be the ability to enjoy it with a glass of wine in hand. Which, I suppose is the appeal of having a house in wine country. OK, maybe if you had a glass of wine in hand, AND you were sitting in a pool while enjoying this view.... Sigh. -- Alder Yarrow INSTRUCTIONS: Download this image by right-clicking on the image and selecting "save link as" or "save target as" and then select the desired location on your computer to... continue reading
- Posted by: Alder on May 8, 2009 5:44 PM
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Vinography Images: Spring in the Vineyard
Spring in the Vineyard All over California old gnarled vines that have looked half-dead since they were pruned some months ago are sprouting green tips like these. I only hope the chilly rain that is pouring down on them as I write this isn't making for a difficult vintage already -- Alder Yarrow INSTRUCTIONS: Download this image by right-clicking on the image and selecting "save link as" or "save target as" and then select the desired location on your computer to save the image. Mac users can also just click the image to open the full size view and... continue reading
- Posted by: Alder on May 1, 2009 9:13 PM
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Vinography Images: Terraced Vineyards
Terraced Vineyards Of all the wine growing regions of the world, only one looks quite like this. Portugal's Douro Valley, with its terraced, Mediterranean vineyards snaking around the crenellations of the meandering Douro river is one of the most stunning sites on the planet -- Alder Yarrow INSTRUCTIONS: Download this image by right-clicking on the image and selecting "save link as" or "save target as" and then select the desired location on your computer to save the image. Mac users can also just click the image to open the full size view and drag that to their desktops. To... continue reading
- Posted by: Alder on April 24, 2009 9:04 PM
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Vinography Images: Leafing Out
Leafing Out As the weather warms, the vines begin to come out of their winter dormancy, and first buds, then leaves begin to unfurl. This embrace of leaf and crane fly in the morning sun is playing out throughout California's vineyards as Spring marches towards summer. -- Alder Yarrow INSTRUCTIONS: Download this image by right-clicking on the image and selecting "save link as" or "save target as" and then select the desired location on your computer to save the image. Mac users can also just click the image to open the full size view and drag that to their... continue reading
- Posted by: Alder on April 17, 2009 12:17 PM
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