Rita Crane Photography: Aleppo Pine / trees / nature / beauty / French Riviera / Aleppo Pine at Beaulieu, Mediterranean Afternoon
Continuing my current series of images of trees....here's a repost of one of my favorite photos. It was taken in the gardens of the Ephrussie de Rothschild Villa on a beautiful peninsula that juts out into the sea, near Beaulieu, along the French Riviera. It was too early in the year for flowers, but the trees.....they made up for it all!!
I fell in love with this one as it caught the soft, slightly misty afternoon light by the sea.....of early spring. A silvery leafed olive tree in the foreground sparkled in the soft wind and a deeper leafed pine contrasted with both.
C'etait l'apresmidi pres de Beaulieu, dans ce beau jardin qui fait partie maintenant d'un musee et ou je pensais faire des photos d'un jardin fleuri. Mais c'etait encore trop tot dans l'annee. Les arbres par contre etaient merveilleux!! Celui-ci m'a emporte' dans une autre epoque! On aurait dit une peinture du 18 eme. siecle! Vous pouvez rechercher l'histoire du Villa d'Ephrussie de Rothschild sur l'internet: www.wikipedia.com
Here's an excerpt of ancient - and modern - history of this lovely spot, as explained in Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat
"Known to the ancient Greeks as Anao, the site of present day Cap-Ferrat was first settled by Celto-ligurian tribes, then by the Lombards at the end of the 6th Century. Sant'Ospizio (or Saint Hospice), a hermit friar, is said to have inhabited a tower on the Eastern part of the peninsula. In the 8th Century, the Saracens occupy the site and use it as a base for pirating until the 11th Century.................."
.............In 1905 Béatrice Ephrussi de Rothschild also chooses Cap-Ferrat to build an opulent and exquisite Tuscan style palazzo, now known as Villa Ephrussi de Rothschild museum."
Rita Crane Photography: Aleppo Pine / trees / nature / beauty / French Riviera / Aleppo Pine at Beaulieu, Mediterranean Afternoon
Continuing my current series of images of trees....here's a repost of one of my favorite photos. It was taken in the gardens of the Ephrussie de Rothschild Villa on a beautiful peninsula that juts out into the sea, near Beaulieu, along the French Riviera. It was too early in the year for flowers, but the trees.....they made up for it all!!
I fell in love with this one as it caught the soft, slightly misty afternoon light by the sea.....of early spring. A silvery leafed olive tree in the foreground sparkled in the soft wind and a deeper leafed pine contrasted with both.
C'etait l'apresmidi pres de Beaulieu, dans ce beau jardin qui fait partie maintenant d'un musee et ou je pensais faire des photos d'un jardin fleuri. Mais c'etait encore trop tot dans l'annee. Les arbres par contre etaient merveilleux!! Celui-ci m'a emporte' dans une autre epoque! On aurait dit une peinture du 18 eme. siecle! Vous pouvez rechercher l'histoire du Villa d'Ephrussie de Rothschild sur l'internet: www.wikipedia.com
Here's an excerpt of ancient - and modern - history of this lovely spot, as explained in Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat
"Known to the ancient Greeks as Anao, the site of present day Cap-Ferrat was first settled by Celto-ligurian tribes, then by the Lombards at the end of the 6th Century. Sant'Ospizio (or Saint Hospice), a hermit friar, is said to have inhabited a tower on the Eastern part of the peninsula. In the 8th Century, the Saracens occupy the site and use it as a base for pirating until the 11th Century.................."
.............In 1905 Béatrice Ephrussi de Rothschild also chooses Cap-Ferrat to build an opulent and exquisite Tuscan style palazzo, now known as Villa Ephrussi de Rothschild museum."