Tuscany Part IV: My Photographs
My blog’s adventures through the golden-rich lush-green lands of Tuscany are well under way, and after three days of tales, I think it’s about time I shared a few more of my photos with you. Tuscany is so ripe in photographic inspiration that I was worried my mega-sized memory stick would not be big enough. The views are so complex with multi-layered landscapes which beg for photographic capture from a multitude of angles and viewpoints, each shot capturing something new, some fresh insight into this rustic, sun-kissed land. From russet soils sprouting innumerable rows of verdant green vines and plump purple grapes, glorious golden sunflowers and shiny little olives, to the sun-dappled shady paths lined by pine trees, old derelict villages gracefully ageing with an insuperable elegance, with long shadows cast by the evening sun falling upon broken shutters and flaking paint work, and an expansive soft, sandy beach, edged by a calm lazy seashore, whose waters are silky warm, and its breeze heavily soporific.
Tuscany is poetry in sight, in sound, in smell. It tickles all of the senses as its natural bounty bares fruit across the undulating land. It’s a peaceful, restful, bucolic region, where the great pleasures of life are celebrated and manufactured, where long afternoons pass in a somniferous haze, where the evenings are bountiful in gastronomy and wine, and by morning a vivid yellow light makes every object, every plant, every building glow with a picture-perfect radiation.
These are my photos of Tuscany.
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- Unusual but beautiful shadow cast by scaffolding
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- Under the pine trees…
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- Perfectly raked sand but with the unavoidable footprints of the raker
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- Super sweet fresh figs
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- We found this fearsome beauty in the woods
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- Mr Carducci
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- Olives
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- Umbrellas at sunset – almost like an alien invasion of the Med!
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- Tables in a vineyard
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- Stunning beauty in the simplest of things
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- Spritz – the drink of choice in Tuscany
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- A clothes seller on the beach – somehow he would pull this whole cart through the sand
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- Cemetery in Bolgheri
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- Perfecting the beach before the crowds come
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- Van Gogh eat your heart out
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- A butterfly in Bolgheri
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- I adore these old broken shutters
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- The Tenuta Argentiera vineyard
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- Stunning geology at Buca delle Fate
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- Castagneto Carducci
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- These dishes become iconic all in their own right
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- Glorious long shadow
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- Our hotel by the sea
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- An old dried up vine curly thing
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- Barbed wire and blossoms
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- We think this is a cicada, the source of all that beautiful chirp chirp noise
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- Ancient oak tree
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- Elegant balcony in Populonia
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- Castagneto Carducci
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- So typically Italian I could cry
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- A perfect balance of greens
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- And just in case you thought I’d forgotten my routes, a little piece of Spain to boot…
All photos are strictly the copyright of Nicholas de Lacy-Brown © 2012 and The Daily Norm. All rights are reserved.
Related articles
- Tuscany Part I: Sea, Sand and plenty of Sunflowers (normsonline.wordpress.com)
- Tuscany Part II: Cooling pines, perfect vines and fine Tuscan wines (normsonline.wordpress.com)
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Beautiful images. You’ve really managed to capture the true spirit of the Tuscan countryside and other areas of the region. You make me want to travel there (since it’s just a few hours from where I actually live).
Lovely photos. They look just like sunshine on a page! Thanks for posting
It’s a decade or so since I was last in Tuscany. Your photos have awakened a strong desire to revisit it. However did we manage in the pre-digital age, when the limits of regular cameras would cause one to consider, before every camera shot, if it was worth using up another frame?
How beautiful! I have been back from my place in Bagni di Lucca for just a couple of weeks and I can’t wait to go back.
Good shots! Such a generous place. Fine way of capturing details. .
Love Italy and Tuscany. Beautiful set of photos. 🙂
wonderful set of this beautiful region…
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