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Famous Podere Belvedere at sunrise, in the heart of the Tuscany, near San Quirico in the Val d'Orcia valley.
5 mornings in a row i stood here at sunrise, waiting for fog in the valley. 4 mornings i returned back to the hotel with nothing. The last morning i was lucky with a lot of rain during the night which gave me the fog i wanted at sunrise at this famous location and probably the most photographed house in the Tuscany.
3 horizontal images stitch together.
Enjoy...
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Technical Details;
Camera; Canon EOS 1Ds mkIII
Lens; Canon EF 70-200mm f2.8L IS II USM
Exposure; 1/13 sec
Aperture; f11
ISO; 100 RAW
Filter; Lee Hard Edge 0.6 Grad
Tripod; Gitzo 3541L
Ballhead; RRS BH-55 with B2 AS II clamp
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Cypress near Asciano, classic tuscan landscape.
Cipressi vicino ad Asciano, Siena, classico paesaggio toscano.
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Photographer: Antonio Cinotti for TravelMag.com
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Tuscany's landscapes remain stunning in black and white due to their timeless composition and dramatic contrasts. Rolling hills, winding cypress-lined roads, and medieval villages create a natural rhythm of light and shadow. Misty mornings soften contours, adding depth and mystery, while rugged textures of vineyards and olive groves bring richness to monochrome tones. The interplay of sky and land enhances visual drama, making Tuscany’s essence — its elegance, history, and harmony — captivating even without color.
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At the fields around Pienza, Tuscany
New version of a previously posted picture in longer format on (popular:-) request. Indeed I think this one is better especially with the trees at the top cut out of the image.
See previous version: www.flickr.com/photos/krisdelcourte/16603567352
I also have this landscape in panorama mode, but that one is a composition of 10 individual images! See: www.flickr.com/photos/krisdelcourte/16382372786/
Not sure the name of this town as we stopped just to take a photo, but somewhere near Greve-in-Chianti
Piazza Grande
Arezzo (Italian pronunciation: [aˈrettso] is a city and comune in Italy, capital of the province of the same name, located in Tuscany. Arezzo is about 80 kilometres (50 miles) southeast of Florence, at an elevation of 296 metres (971 ft) above sea level. In 2011 the population was about 100,000.
Pienza is a town and comune in the province of Siena, Tuscany, in the historical region of Val d'Orcia. Situated between the towns of Montepulciano and Montalcino, it is considered the "touchstone of Renaissance urbanism".
In 1996, UNESCO declared the town a World Heritage Site, and in 2004 the entire valley, the Val d'Orcia, was included on the list of UNESCO's World Cultural Landscapes.
Before the village was renamed Pienza its name was Corsignano. It is first mentioned in documents from the 9th century. Around 1300 parts of the village became property of the Piccolomini family. After Enghelberto d'Ugo Piccolomini had received the fief of Montertari in Val d'Orcia from the emperor Frederick II in 1220. In the 13th century Franciscans settled down in Corsignano.
In 1405 Aeneas Silvius Piccolomini was born in Corsignano, a Renaissance humanist born into an exiled Sienese family, who later became Pope Pius II. Once he became Pope, Piccolomini had the entire village rebuilt as an ideal Renaissance town and renamed it Pienza ("city of Pius"). Intended as a retreat from Rome, it represents the first application of humanist urban planning concepts, creating an impetus for planning that was adopted in other Italian towns and cities and eventually spread to other European centers.
The rebuilding was done by Florentine architect Bernardo Gambarelli (known as Bernardo Rossellino) who may have worked with the humanist and architect Leon Battista Alberti, although there are no documents to prove it for sure. Alberti was in the employ of the Papal Curia at the time and served as an advisor to Pius. Construction started about 1459. Pope Pius II consecrated the Duomo on 29 August 1462, during his long summer visit. He included a detailed description of the structures in his Commentaries, written during the last two years of his life.
OLYMPUS DIGITALChiusure is a hamlet of the Italian municipality of Asciano, in the province of Siena, Tuscany.
The village of Chiusure grew up around an ancient church called Sant'Angelo in Luco, which already existed in the 8th century when it was the subject of contention between the bishops of Siena and Arezzo, later falling under the jurisdiction of the latter.
The noble Tolomei family of Siena had various possessions around Chiusure. In 1313, Bernardo Tolomei retired to lead a hermit life on one of his properties in the Accona desert not far from Chiusure and founded the Olivetan Congregation there in 1319. In 1333, Antonio di Meo Tolomei bought the village of Chiusure and then ceded the land and houses to the people.
In the 14th century, the church of Sant'Angelo in Luco, changing its name to San Michele in Luco, was entrusted to the nearby abbey of Monte Oliveto Maggiore, with which it became part of the Diocese of Pienza in 1462.
In 1777, Chiusure, from being an autonomous municipality, became a fraction of Asciano.
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Sono questi i paesaggi che mi affascinano ed avvolte commuovono..., il silenzio interrotto solo dal cinguettio frenetico, le nebbie mattutine ed il Sole che che poi ti regala questi colori...la meravigliosa Val d'Orcia!!
These are the landscapes that fascinate me..., the silence interrupted only by the frenetic chirping, the morning mists and the Sun that then gives you these colors...amazing Val d'Orcia