Category: Local Businesses
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Backlight Beer
I took this at Revolution Brewing on Palm Sunday. Prompt: Backlighting in a scene can create drama. Make a photo with an interesting placement of backlit subjects. Continue reading
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Beer Is Food – Product Shot
This stack of beers is my entry for today’s challenge. Prompt: Imagine you’ve been commissioned to photograph a product for a company’s marketing department. Give us your best product shot. Continue reading
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Outside Chess
Outside chess. You know it’s spring when the chess games at Revolution Brewing move outside. Prompt: It’s a new season (spring up north, fall down south). Make a photograph that illustrates the change. Continue reading
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Paonia Mountain Harvest Festival
On Sunday morning, we headed to the town park for the Mountain Harvest Festival Farmers’ Market. Ray came to help at the booth. He took care of it so I could take the occasional break. Monica from Small Potatoes Farm was also there selling potatoes and garlic braids. It was a good day. We had… Continue reading
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Culinary School of the Rockies: Dinner at Zephros
We were invited to the Culinary School of the Rockies dinner at Zephros Farm. Here you can see the students busily working on the feast. I got several pictures of the students, both with and without their chef instructors. These were from just before the rain started. We had a brief downpour, and all of… Continue reading
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Kids Pasta Project for Historical Society Benefit
The Kids Pasta Project here in North Fork serves up a pasta meal every Monday. All proceeds after expenses go to various local nonprofits. This coming Monday, September 7th, the recipient will be the North Fork Historical Society. The cost is a minimal $10/person, or less for seniors and kids. Come on out and show… Continue reading
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Garvin Mesa Day, 2009
Today was the third annual Garvin Mesa Day. All three wineries on our mesa – Terror Creek Winery, Stone Cottage Cellars, and Azura Cellars – and our farm all coordinate to have an open house day. We did farm tours and had our smoked sheep kolbassi sausages available to sample. Monica from Small Potatoes Farm… Continue reading
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Farmers’ Market Day
We don’t have enough regular vendors to hold a regular market, but for the open business day, we held a small market in downtown Paonia. Here’s Monica from Small Potatoes Farm and our Desert Weyr farm booth. Here’s Flying Fork’s fresh-baked goods and Fire Mountain with some vegetables. There were some lovely tomatoes from another… Continue reading
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Stone Brew Visitors and Haying!
Greg Koch from Stone Brewing, plus Susan Duniphin and Keiffer Koch, arrived for a short visit today. We started with some picture-taking opportunities at the edge of the mesa. We had a lovely lunch at Flying Fork in Paonia, then got a great tour of both Revolution Brewing’s new facility and their tasting room. Of… Continue reading
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More Beer!
This is Mike next to one of the new fermenters at Revolution Brewing. It’s installed and working! Soon, they won’t run out of beer on the weekends. The second one will have to wait until they get the brewing facility active in their new building. Continue reading