As I mentioned in my last post some 3 weeks ago, I was, at that time, about to be off on holiday to Italy. Which is why nothing happened here for 2 weeks, and that third week was spent uploading and editing the photos I took – some 600 of them. This is the first post of a few from the trip.
We went for a two week break to the northern end of Tuscany known as the Garfagnana, an mountainous area which is not necessarily what you expect when you first think of Tuscany. We’d originally wanted to go to the parts of Tuscany you imagine – yellow plains, cypress trees, villas dotted about between historic towns and cities. But we’d only settled on this destination a little late in the day for holiday booking, and the property we ended up renting was an unexpectedly good deal in what looked like beautiful scenery.
Beautiful it was indeed, and the property wasn’t entirely unphotogenic either. Let me introduce you to Il Vecchio Mulino – a former water mill just outside the hilltop town of Coregelia Antelminelli.
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Not the best photo because of the light, but I liked the door
It was the gardens that got most of my attention though.
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There was also a smattering of wildlife around…
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And then there was some life which was a little less wild.
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It made me wish, even more than usual, that we had this kind of space at home. If for no other reason than it keeping us entertained all by itself for at least half the time we were there.
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Love the doors, Catherine. Hopefully a future post will show us more of Tuscany from your 600 picture collection. I hope to get there myself one day. But for now, we are at least back in London, and are in the process of house buying, and getting a job. Of course the UK is a lot different from Utah (rain almost every day since we arrived 3 weeks ago, compared to 30+ºC Temps). But then here we don’t get the wild fires that have been going on in the US. I have been looking around for a photography club around here, and believe I have found a small one in Northolt, close to the house we are buying.
Looks like it was a nice place to spend your holidays. The most I have been doing is a walk around Brentford, and Edgeware. If I get chance before starting work, I’ll probably head into London city, and get other pictures around there. Perhaps we will bump into each other one day.
Take care, Colin.
Thanks Colin, and glad to hear you’ve made it here ok! Welcome (back?) to London, although the weather definitely leaves a lot to be desired.
What a world of strange coincidences – I grew up in Harrow and know all the places you speak of! Might be able to point you in the direction of some places for good photos should you ever be in need of suggestions.
Always love suggestions… Send them my way.
Quick couple – Bentley Priory in Stanmore has a deer park (or it used to! Haven’t lived there in a while), and if you park up on Old Redding you can walk through the woods and catch some glimpses of the house where the composer Gilbert lived, and drowned himself. Plus there’s views across London from the car park.
I concur with Colin, great door shots – although I have one very similar to your second, monochrome one from my trip to Greenwich Park (not quite as ornate though).
I love the depth of field in the wildlife shots, Good job capturing the bee!
My favourite shots, however, are the closeup of the rear-lit leaf and the sun flare. They are just so, er, nature-ey to me.
Doors are surprisingly compelling! I cheated with the bee – it was drowning in the pool. Much easier to photograph!
Everything I thought I knew is wrong. Although, I did wonder a little why the ‘sky’ in the bee shot looked unusually light…
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