Pitigliano in Tuscany Grew Out of Tufa Rock - Los Angeles Travel Photographer

Yes, you read it right.  Pitigliano is a town that dates back to the Etruscan times in Tuscany and the ancestors of the people there had the intelligence of cutting into the soft volcanic tufa rock to establish their dwellings.  They even created channels by cutting into the tufa rock in depths that vary between 3.3 and 33 feet, apparently for water.

In such an amazing historic town, I learnt that it has something in common with Venice.

Do you want to take a wild guess at it?

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It's a Jungle Out There, Where is everybody? - Los Angeles Travel Photographer

They say "beauty is in the eyes of beholders".  I say an over-arching mantra is because we all look at things through our own "filters".  The fact is out there.  And yet, while we believe our own eyes, we can also be cheated by our eyes.  We each have this filter that affects how we see and feel about certain things and it may have been determined by our up-bringing, life experience, or anything that's unexplainable.

As the weather warms up, we plan our vacations.  Many dream of heading to the beaches.  One of the favorite is the Amalfi Coast in Italy.  When the season is right (or not), the view of the beach could seem like a sardine packing facility.  

I was there on one of those very days, when you'd run into tour buses or people or both any given second.  And yet, my filter brought me to make this image, of this "lone" man, when he's not quite "alone".  Do you have one of these experiences?  

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Under the Tuscan Sun ... - Los Angeles Travel Photographer

Close your eyes, and you see rolling hills covered by spreading vineyards, with leaves waving and grapes glistering in the warm golden sheen.  Would you have imagined there is a piece of land, under the same sun, that could be bare during certain season of the year, but it's also more "rolling"?  It's the UNESCO listed World Heritage Site of Val d'Orcia,  the strip of land that's been celebrated by painters from the Scuola Senese, which flourished during the Renaissance.

The landscape is so suggestive that I find my imagination flying off the roof.  Wait... Roof?  Anyway, you get the point.  

Stay tuned.  I assure you that there will be more about Val d'Orcia forth-coming.

What do you see in this image? 

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