Lens-Artists PC: The portrait of a landscape

Maremma in Tuscany: the blues and the greens and an occasional poppy. This is my world and all the colours I need (that’s a lie, I need all the colours).

Maremma is a historical country in Italy with no fixed borders, mostly in Tuscany but also spilling out of it into Lazio and Umbria. And this is where I find myself in the middle of my life, enjoying how its m’s roll off my tongue: Maremmmmma, hoping that this colour scheme continues for a while, for we know:

No water, no life. No blue, no green. 
— Sylvia Earle (quote reblogged from Zimmerbitch)

These photos were mostly taken in March, April and May, only one is from September and one from October. Now you know when to come over.

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  Let’s start on my roof.

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  Then we move to Capalbio on the hill.

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  Northwards. Add a vineyard, and poppies.

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  Add more poppies and dramatic clouds. Towards Orvieto in Umbria.

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  Remove everything but greens and blues and some clouds. To the Cala Violina beach.

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  That’s how Microsoft used to do it. Three from here follow, above Siena.

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  Crete Senesi, I believe this area is called.

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  I must come back. The last time we were searching for an arch in vain.

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  The view from Vetulonia.

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  Etruscan country with an obligatory hilltop town.

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  Just a bit to the north: the view from Caldana.

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  A similar view from Massa Marittima.

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  And one from Montemassi. More?

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  Add some geometry. From Montorsaio.

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  Add some ruins. From Tuscania in Lazio.

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  Remove all that and add a chimney. Montemerano.

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  Still here, with antennas.

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  Sometimes it’s San Galgano Abbey that you see.

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  From San Martino sul Fiora.

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  Back to local greens and blues. And the sea. From Capalbio. We live down below just out of frame to the right.

For Lens-Artists Photo Challenge, hosted by Amy at THE WORLD IS A BOOK…: Landscapes