Seeing the World Through Wine

For Anthala

When I see people taking great photos, I will

often ask them if I can see the shot.  It is a 

great way to share ideas and information.

On one of our first nights in Spain we were on

the beach watching the sunset and a group of

3 young people came on the beach and sat a

few chairs away from us.  One of the young

women in the group was in the sand at one 

point taking photos with her phone.  After

the woman's friends had gone back to the 

resort I yelled over to ask if she was taking

a photo of the glass of wine or through the 

glass of wine.  She called back to say she was 

on the phone with her brother but would 

show me when she got off the phone.  After 

a bit she came over and Rob & I got into a 

fabulous conversation with her.  It was one

of those instances when we made an instant

connection with a fellow traveler, we all had 

so much to share and talk about, it was 

wonderful.  It was the same connection we

have made many other times, such as Tess,

Adithya, Ahmet, Sumi and Avnish, Olivia, 

Barb & Steve for example.

We were in such a fabulous conversation we 

didn't realize the sun had completely set and

a lot of time had gone by.  Suddenly Anthala's

friends returned to the beach.  They had been

texting her and searching for her and were 

quite concerned when they couldn't reach her.

Whoops!  Sorry about that...

Finally, we got around to looking at her photos.

She was taking a photo through the glass of wine

and it was very cool looking.  We decided we 

should do a series of these shots as we travel

using the local wines of the region we are 

traveling in.  So here is my first shot, we have

had a busy trip and quite a bit of rain so this was

the first chance I got to shoot the sunset through

the local Spanish vino blanco.  This will be the

first in the series.

It was great to meet you Anthala!