What Tuscany is?
by GIULIO57
What Italy is for you? Well…Mafia, Spaghetti, Pizza, Chitarra, Mandolino, bad drivers, smart (well dressed)peoples. Last but not least…..Sun!
What Tuscany is? Florence, Siena, Pisa and its Leaning Tower…Lucca and its Wall, Volterra, and so on…In these last years a Church in Val d’Orcia became the icon of Tuscany: Chiesa of Vitaleta in San Quirico d’Orcia….(glad to inform you that this Church was inside estate of property of my family till 1892, and The Belvedere close to it, as well. This is a fresh piece of news that I didn’t know due to “murder”-or suicide?- of my grand-grand-pa in 1894).
……..But I don’t like what above said. I was and I’m still looking for a stand-alone image that can better describe Tuscany. A few “elements” here and there…..and so Tuscany is in front of us in a “glance”.
Well…Tuscany in my opinion is a little bit of soil…A hill…A single cypress…and something “else” that reminds of “men’s work”….All over…The Sky.
Wherever you go a single cypress atop hill will represent that part of Tuscany…so that is “Tuscany”. All these elements “embedded” in a white blurred Poetry cloud. May be I’m wrong but I have tried to synthetize all this in one shot.
Harmony was very important so I decided to give a static dynamics to compo placing single trees at crossing of bottom one-third horizontal and vertical (left-right thirds) lines. Wheat bale lies just in the middle. Sky fills remaining 2/3. Hope you like it. Place: somewhere in Tuscany.
What Tuscany is? Florence, Siena, Pisa and its Leaning Tower…Lucca and its Wall, Volterra, and so on…In these last years a Church in Val d’Orcia became the icon of Tuscany: Chiesa of Vitaleta in San Quirico d’Orcia….(glad to inform you that this Church was inside estate of property of my family till 1892, and The Belvedere close to it, as well. This is a fresh piece of news that I didn’t know due to “murder”-or suicide?- of my grand-grand-pa in 1894).
……..But I don’t like what above said. I was and I’m still looking for a stand-alone image that can better describe Tuscany. A few “elements” here and there…..and so Tuscany is in front of us in a “glance”.
Well…Tuscany in my opinion is a little bit of soil…A hill…A single cypress…and something “else” that reminds of “men’s work”….All over…The Sky.
Wherever you go a single cypress atop hill will represent that part of Tuscany…so that is “Tuscany”. All these elements “embedded” in a white blurred Poetry cloud. May be I’m wrong but I have tried to synthetize all this in one shot.
Harmony was very important so I decided to give a static dynamics to compo placing single trees at crossing of bottom one-third horizontal and vertical (left-right thirds) lines. Wheat bale lies just in the middle. Sky fills remaining 2/3. Hope you like it. Place: somewhere in Tuscany.
Uploaded24/07/2017 - 17:10
CategoryLandscape / Travel
Posted 24/07/2017 - 18:48
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So simple, so lovely......
Makes me look forward to my next visit to Tuscany - whenever that may be.
Phil
Makes me look forward to my next visit to Tuscany - whenever that may be.
Phil
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Posted 24/07/2017 - 19:11
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swarf wrote:
So simple, so lovely......
Makes me look forward to my next visit to Tuscany - whenever that may be.
Phil
Thanks Phil......Avoid summer.....here we are dried and lyophilezed.....No rain...no water.....Horrible hot weather....and next week 38°C...Hope forecast will not be true
So simple, so lovely......
Makes me look forward to my next visit to Tuscany - whenever that may be.
Phil
Posted 24/07/2017 - 20:53
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Thanks for sharing your photo with the comments Giulio. I was lucky enough to visit Tuscany a few years back and may the happy time i had there live with me forever.
Posted 25/07/2017 - 00:40
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Minimalism at its very best. You have provided the very soul of the place you love with nothing to distract the viewer from what you deem important.
Posted 25/07/2017 - 15:39
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Looks like you scored a goal with this one Giulio !
I agree with those comments above - sometimes less is more.
Lovely work Giulio
Best regards
Peter
I agree with those comments above - sometimes less is more.
Lovely work Giulio
Best regards
Peter
Posted 25/07/2017 - 22:54
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Simplicity at it's finest!
Posted 07/10/2017 - 16:06
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Lovely image Giulio a simple but powerful statement...
Posted 16/02/2020 - 19:02
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Dear Giulio, excellent shot. Tuscany is one of the most beautiful regions in Italy. Liked.
Toni
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