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ET·021 Travel 2025

Tuscan distance

landscapes without the postcard

category
Travel
year
2025
location
Val d'Orcia, Italy
frames
5
status
developed and fixed
The hills of the Crete Senesi at dawn with low fog in the valleys, a line of cypresses backlit on the ridge.
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the work

I live in Tuscany, which photographically is a sentence: everything has already been shot, printed, sold as a calendar.

So I look for distance. The Crete at dawn, when the fog erases the roads. A farmhouse ten minutes before the storm. The white road at noon, when the manuals say don't. Sometimes from the car window without even stopping: some photos you steal that way or they don't exist.

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the sequence

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An isolated stone farmhouse on a Tuscan hill, sky heavy with dark storm clouds, last light on a wheat field.
#01 Ten minutes later it was raining inside the car. Photo saved, seat not.
A white gravel road crossing a plowed field on a diagonal, hard midday shadows, no people.
#02 Everyone says don't shoot at noon. The road disagreed.
A cluster of cypresses barely readable in the dark under a full moon, long exposure with a faintly smeared starry sky.
#03 Thirty seconds open. No sensor records the silence up there.
A Tuscan hill landscape at sunset shot in motion from a car window, foreground trees streaked with blur.
#04 Out the window, no stopping. Some photos come that way or not at all.