1. some cool fountain beside the mirror water place.
basically the rest are some shots i got of the mirror water. it is a photographers heaven la. too sad 1. i dun do model shoots. 2. i am bad at photography. yea.
so oh well throw me there i just do my best ok? refer to the linkk for a better photo.
anyway basically there is a light layer of water on the surface, this water then reflects everything around it. its really cool!
so it looks like you are walking on water kind of.
there is one in there of a guy biking over the water. really cool! good thing i caught a photo of it!
i wish i had a bike to do that on!
the pictures are not in chronological order anymore cause its hard to structure them that way. so now its all going by types!
so these are some of the flower pics i took for the day!
1. just a daisy i plucked from the ground and put on a notebook
its a cliche idea and i didn't execute it well
sadly i only took one shot at it.. so here it is!
2. some odd cute plant i found outside the garden of chateu malle, i think there were alot of bees around them
3. random flower in chateu god knows what.
4. this is.. like a fruit. it kind of looks liek custard apple but its not
its artkichoke (sp?) haha its like this.. leafy squishy slightly bitter mushy thing. you keep eating it here in france.. i think it was in season? anyway a plant we don't eat in singapore!
lunch at chateau-i cannot remember name. the one on the left is our main course
er.. i forgot to take a photo before i ate it. so there you go.
its chicken, i think it was grilled slightly and had this white awesome delicious heavenly sauce on it. i dont relaly care for the chicken. but the sauce. oh myyyy. me and dad requested for another serving of sauce! we are greeedy.
the one on the right is fraguar again. i think this one was quite nice. i liked the jammy thing on the side, can't remember what jam was it. i think it was fig and something.
its really sweet and nice.
all the above food are meant to be eaten together with specific wine. yes VERY SPECIFIC.
since i dont drink
i don't like taste of alcohol
i can't really tell you how well they go together. but they taste good themselves really. so i don't care!
another "photoshoot" with the above daisy. i like the contrast of the rough gravelly stone and the soft white daisy. with the hints of pink it really made a nice photo. i like this photo!
hence it gets its own upload.
random photos which were all portrait ahah!
anyway
1. this is the mirror fountain thingy, more on it below
2. just a pretty flower of the countryside outside one of the chateus.
the greenery is the long ros of vineyards. its everywhere!
tried out a 1/3 rule here. 1/3 white 1/3 green 1/3 blue sky!
3. i tried my best to take alot of alley shots in france. here is one ok them
edited to max drama and impact.
i think it looks really nice this way, slightly undersaturated and hue changed.
it has a certain eerie sadness to it.
and now onto the proper chateu photos!
1. me and my family outside chateu malle. most of the wine that we were to explore were called sautan or.. sumthing that sounds phonetically like that.( french never ever spells phonetically damn.) we had gone on a wine tour and i got a discount since i don't drink. oh joy! i still get my good lunch!
2/4. inside one of the chateu. most of the chateu were lived in by important personels in history like generals and ministers. its kind of cool. the decor is still pretty much the same and has the old funky european style to it
3. the chateu malle wine. you can see its a really light yellow like. grainish colour. its supposedly a very sweet wine and all. lighter the colour the younger it is. see i learnt something too even though i didnt drink! ahha i like the colour though. its unique. there is another wine my parents kept drinking, called a rose with the ´. so its rose-eh. anyway its a pink wine! its not a specialty of the area so no photo, but its a market thing so.. just look for it in supermarkets i think?
5. vine yard again
6. mum and dad and statue outside chateu malle ( and if you are wondering why i remember the name of the chateu its cause all the photos have it written on top haha)
7. this is the cellar place thingy. they keep all the wine inside those barral for it to age and become drinkable.
glucose + yeast-----> alcohol!
yes thats a little chemistry for you. though i think this is not the part where you do the fermentation.
its really cold in there and smells like some horrible alcoholic :/
8. the guide/lady person tried to make me drink T_T
as u can see i was kinda URG but i had to just let her pour it for me
i smelt it tentatively and gave it to my parents.
they wanted it anyway
im being a filial daughter!
well a much more condensed post since its taking far too long to post nowadays. an hour for each post is steep.
just a few more!
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