Lifes too short! FAO of Mike Buckley

[ST1]

Yesterday I mentioned on Mike's post LINK about a book I spotted whilst browsing in Ampleforth Abbey Gift Shop. On seeing the book my first thought was that the book may be of interest to Mike on CiC forum.

Then of course life gets in the way and I forgot about the image I had taken on my phone, until yesterday that is; when I made time to pop in to the forum.

So just for Mike here is the image (not of any merit from a photography perspective) enjoy





For those who may be interested here's a link to the Abbey web site Link.

PS. For clarity and the avoidance of doubt I have no association with the Abbey or the author of the book.

[Shadowman]

Nice catch.

[IzzieK]

Nice to see you back, Peter...I hope life has been good to you lately...

[davidedric]

Sadly, the book's author - a wonderfully warm and witty essayist - died last year. I can imagine how he might write about wine.

Dave

[Mike Buckley]

Thank you, Peter!

The premise of the title is all wrong because there is no such thing as bad wine. Actually, I did have a bad wine once in 2002 in a tiny village in the Trossachs of Scotland. There was only one open restaurant, my wife and I had just finished a hike and we were starving. The restaurant had only one wine and everything about it including the overly warm temperature was pretty bad. I drank every drop in the glass because it was preferable to drinking anything else including water. That was the moment I realized how much I enjoy wine.

I like the angle that you used to photograph the book. The bright light in the bottom right corner very nicely "connects" with the skylight in the top left corner. Otherwise either or both would be unappealing. Good use of a difficult situation that probably allowed you very little control.