The charm of central California’s wine country.

After the overwhelming power of yesterday’s picture, something more placid is called for. Nothing is finer than a gentle drive on the traffic-free back roads of central California’s wine country, which happens to be where I live.

And this little bit of nothing was a nice little something to chance upon. No drama. No message. Just some gentle beauty.

Central California wine country. 5D, 85mm, 1/1000, f/8, ISO 250. Processed in Lightroom.

With that combination of camera and lens, Canon could fairly claim, as Kodak did a hundred years ago, “You take the picture, we do the rest”. Processing was limited to the addition of a bit of vignetting, using Lightroom’s sliders to make the subject pop.

Some mood music helps, so why not the best?