Paris Icons at the Mumm Napa Gallery
On Monday, Labor Day, we took a drive up north to Napa Valley. I've always found that Mondays of a long weekend are the best for visting and wine tasting. While we are driving north and stopping at vineyards at a leisurely pace, everyone else is heading out of the valley and back home. At our first stop, Consentino Winery, we picked up a bottle of one of my favorite wines, CigarZin and a copy of Wine Country This Week, looking for tasting coupons and other goings on. I was pleasantly surprised to find this article on a photography exhibit going on at Mumm Napa.
What I love about Mumm is the Ansel Adams prints they usually have displayed in the Gallery. As a gallery they usually have wonderful photography on display and until recently hosted the Napa Valley Mustard Festival Photo Finish, where I first got my taste of having my photography on gallery walls. Not to mention that there's no admission fee for viewing the gallery. While the Ansel Adams photos were not on display, the Paris Icons Photography Exhibit was an excellent substitute.
Paris Icons, by James Scholz is on exhibit until September 26th. Given the sheer number of times I have been up to Napa since March, I'm surprised I hadn't been aware of this exhibit. Scholz's photography of Paris is amazing. The prints are beautiful and the composition and his unique take on Paris is excellent. I highly recommend stopping by the exhibit before September 26th, as it is well worth seeing. My only disappointment was that there weren't more images. After wandering through the gallery of about 50 photographs, I was left wanting to see more.
Scholz does has a book available at IconImages, but it's a tad out of my price range for the moment. The prints are all on sale and I must say, very reasonably priced. I was very tempted to purchase more than a few of them! Mumm Napa is on the Silverado Trail, just north of Mile Marker 12.
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