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To convey the concept of barrel tasting (tasting wines drawn from the barrel into your glass) to advertise a barrel tasting event of our wine clubs, I created the photo at the left, below:

I combined the two photos at the right to get the image I wanted.
This Photoshop masking method is explained in one of my tutorials

I had a 19"x28" framed enlargement of this barrel tasting image made to hang next to the three-bottle photo (previous page). A copy of this enlargement now hangs in the Tangley Oaks Mansion, headquarters of Terlato Wines International in Lake Bluff, Illinois.

Variations on this image have been very handy in illustrating these events at all four of our wineries, both in print and on the web.

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I combined twelve vertical photos to create this 16"x60" vineyard panorama. It depicts the first crop of the Terlato Family Vineyards estate vineyard just above Rutherford Hill winery. A copy of this panorama hangs in Tangley Oaks as well.

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I went to Sanford Winery and Vineyards specifically to photograph one of our vineyards for Wine Enthusiast magazine. During the four hours I was there, I took quite a few other photos.

Six of those other photos have been enlarged and are now decorating the walls of Sanford's beautiful new tasting room. That 60x22" panorama is over their fireplace.

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I was given a crystal decanter to photograph. The only difficulty was that the background hadn't been decided upon. Perhaps they'd use the decanter against different backgrounds on various occasions, so would I please just "remove the background." Here is the decanter with the background removed and a bottle distorted behind it. Now any image can be placed behind the decanter. The clear decanter showed up best against a dark background and the bottle against a light background, so here I've used a gradient.

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I illustrate most of my graphics with photos, but sometimes a line drawing does the job better, so I just change my photo into a line drawing:

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In July of each year, Rutherford Hill Winery is on the cover of Inside Napa Valley. I take photos which depict the winery and make a montage of them and give the cover to the magazine as one large photo. Then they superimpose their usual text.

When Chimney Rock's online shopping cart was launched, I created a graphic intended to convey the idea:

When I took the Rutherford Hill 2004 Family Photo (below) only 30 people were able to attend the first photo session. 21 more were photographed later individually and put into the photo.

Roll your mouse over this image to see the original photo.