Still Life: News of the Scent Library: Lalique Equus EDP

News of own Scent Library - it is growing slowly but surely, this time with the addition of a bottle of Lalique Pour Homme Equus EDP

 

Horse water.

A bottle of Lalique Equus EDP 75 ml...

... except it doesn't say Equus anywhere just pour homme.

It is nice and very different from the stuff I usually douse myself with.

 

On first impressions, the bottle feels cheap though, the horse head is not embossed just thinly etched, the tester at the store had a much better bottle, with a proper horse head in relief, but the cap is all right - clicks solid.

 

VreMax: News of the Scent Library: Lalique Equus EDP: News of own Scent Library - it is growing slowly but surely, this time with the addition of a bottle of Lalique Pour Homme Equus EDP   Horse...

Cognac in the Springtime

For still life today, here is a bottle of cognac with a wine glass in an early spring garden.

 Dagestan 13... a very good cognac better than most upmarket French XOs and much cheaper too.

 

****

 

The full-sized versions of these and other pictures are available for sale:

On stock sites

Shutterstock

Adobe Stock

iStock - Getty Images

 

Or directly from this blogger, use the info on the right-hand panel

Общепит: Весна, коньяк, Дагестан 13: На дворе зима вовсю идет, завалило сегодня снегом, а вспоминается все же самое начало весны в мае прошлого года... когда пили на даче коньяк... HoroLex: Общепит: Весна, коньяк, Дагестан 13: На дворе зима вовсю идет, завалило сегодня снегом, а вспоминается все же самое начало весны в мае прошлого года... когда пили с братцем на д...

Day Before Yesterday in the City

 The day before yesterday in the City (of Moscow) - some urban photography and street photography.

A captive British lion, I think?

Using multiple exposures (3) - "normal", underexposed, over exposed ... still can't get it right most of the time haha.

VreMax: Yesterday in the City:  Yesterday in the City (of Moscow) - some urban photography and street photography. A captive British lion, I think? Using multiple exposure...

Postcard by the window

 Postcard by the window.

Still Life Photography: My House of Bogart (Scents)

In still life photography, here is the state of the House of Bogart in my toilet cupboard subsequent to the new arrivals of One Man Shows.

 

Left to right: One Man Show Original, One Man Show Emerald Edition, One Man Show Ruby Edition, One Man Show Oud Edition.

Although I am a frequent user of scents nowadays - each time I go out - I have some library of scents and these might actually last me a lifetime (what's left of it which is still plenty).

Being so multicolored, these new editions make for good photography (which is beyond my reach still) but they are never as good as the originals.

Wore Oud Edition a couple of times and I have to report that, after a promising beginning with what seemed for a while like notes of pine in the style of Encre Noire, it is not that great and gets worse with time, can be worn but that's about it.

Copy Photography on Arbat Street, Moscow

 More of my chance copy photography experiments, this time again on the Arbat in Moscow, Russia.

Copy photography is what I (and maybe others) call using a camera to reproduce a work of art which could be a photograph itself or a painting.

And especially reproduce it in such a way that it can almost stand on its own.

With a modern high quality camera, the results can be quite fetching.

Even my olde Sony rx100 m2 does the trick.

See? Not to shabby to pass for my own ... but using photographic posters this time from a Mexico200 exhibition.

Mexico 200 photo exhibition by somebody as seen on the Arbat in late November 2021.

Now on to Korea, south part.

Terracotta Solider-like Statue

 Here is a Terracotta Soldier-like statue at a recessed alcove in some Moscow Chinese food restaurant.

Here is a report from the restaurant.

 

 In my restaurants today: a Beijing Opera cocktail and Peking Duck.

Beijing Opera cocktail, it's rum based, tasty but one isn't enough for much effect, just a hint of something pleasant.

And half a Peking Duck with garnishes and pancakes.

My Chinese restaurant going disguise.

Not much info online about a cocktail called Beijing Opera, could be some new creation by the restaurant so here is composition.

And like I said it's rum based but better drunk in multiples for it to really work, at least three to five per Hemingway.

 

VreMax: Beijing Opera and Peking Duck:  In my restaurants today: a Beijing Opera cocktail and Peking Duck. Beijing Opera cocktail, it's rum based, tasty but one isn't eno...