Italy – Il Vecchio Mulino

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.

iPhone photo

Wistman’s Wood

36mm, 1/100sec, f/8.0, ISO 100

Wistman’s Wood, still on Dartmoor, is somewhere I’d heard about and never been, so as we were looking for another walk of a not enormously taxing nature, we stopped here for some exploration and for me to argue with my camera about white balance.

Hembury, Devon

Life has gotten the better of me recently and writing up posts has taken a back seat. But! This does not mean I’ve been ignoring the camera. Last week (or perhaps it was the week before, I’ve lost track, oh no, 3 weeks now), we visited my in-laws in Devon and went out and about a bit whilst there which has resulted in a photographic pile-up situation. Expect a few posts over what I hope will be the next week or so. But for now, let me introduce you to Hembury Fort.

55mm, 1/125sec, f6.3, ISO100