05/21/2026
As a Napa photographer, I get to photograph some beautiful things in beautiful places. For example, last week I got to photograph a robot. Yes! A, wait, what? OK, maybe robots aren’t beautiful, but it was certainly in a beautiful place! Walsh Vineyard Management is deploying two very exciting robots, robots the promise to reduce the amount of spraying that happens in vineyards. You see, these robots straddle the vines, subjecting them to powerful UV light, thereby killing powdery mildew. Pretty cool!