Tuscan Daybreak; Italy, October 2, 2016
Tuscany is one of the most beautiful places on earth, and we spent another four days there recently. Daybreak offers the full range of experience, from full dark, when trees, hills, and sky are indistinguishable, through nuanced grays and faint colors that hint at shapes, to the full-on brilliance of a low sun, bright orange in morning mists. We stayed at Casa Cornacchi and marveled again at how it and the grounds merge with and then emerge from the Tuscan hills.
There is no single view that is superior; the horizon offers a rich assortment of views, from characteristic trees, to farmland and pastures. The photographer's head spins with possibilities. There are too many choices. Pan left; start shooting. Turn to the right, and shoot on. Far, near. Everything.
These were tripod shots to maximize sharpness during longish exposures with a longish lens. Canon 5DIII with 70-200 f/4 IS at 127mm, 1/80th at f/4, ISO 200.
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After a lifetime of mainly expressing myself with words, my postings here will mainly rely on images. They will speak for themselves to some extent, but I'll usually add a few comments of explanation. I've taken photographs for decades, since the 1950's, inspired in part by my father's photographic skill. Four years of photo assignments and quality darkroom time eventually gave way to decades of casual and family picture-taking. I re-immersed myself when I left film and turned to digital.