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Hans Kruse

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Tuscany in fall
« on: November 14, 2017, 12:02:14 pm »

I live Tuscany in late autumn. This photo is from one of the last days in October this year. This year it was very dry and almost no green in the fields. The fields had been meticulously combed by the farmers.

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« Reply #1 on: November 14, 2017, 12:34:57 pm »

Superb shot. Yes, this year it was unusually dry but this also gives a different landscape (vs rainy fall).
Well done!
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Re: Tuscany in fall
« Reply #2 on: November 14, 2017, 12:42:40 pm »

Superb shot. Yes, this year it was unusually dry but this also gives a different landscape (vs rainy fall).
Well done!

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Re: Tuscany in fall
« Reply #3 on: November 14, 2017, 12:45:30 pm »

Good job Hans! I was there for Workshops both twice mid- and end- of October, when I got very uncooperative weather and blue skies, and a third time last weekend, when the weather was just great instead :) It was a very strange fall, very warm late in the season. I loved it how you composed Terrapille and the "Gladiator's road" leaving the sky out, I assume it was not a very conducive sky that evening and you made very good use of the conditions you had :)

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Re: Tuscany in fall
« Reply #4 on: November 14, 2017, 12:53:18 pm »

Stunning!
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« Reply #5 on: November 14, 2017, 01:36:43 pm »

Excellent! Just the right light. It seems to be a elevated view point. Is that a hill or what?
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Re: Tuscany in fall
« Reply #6 on: November 14, 2017, 02:31:53 pm »

Superb, stunning, excellent... yes, they all apply.
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« Reply #7 on: November 14, 2017, 02:56:05 pm »

Lovely image!

Congratulations!
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Re: Tuscany in fall
« Reply #8 on: November 14, 2017, 04:47:25 pm »

I think a singular and really great shot !
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Re: Tuscany in fall
« Reply #9 on: November 14, 2017, 06:52:37 pm »

It really makes me want to get back to Tuscany. My one visit was in the spring, and now I would love to be there in the fall.
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« Reply #10 on: November 14, 2017, 08:05:07 pm »

I was stationed in Italy for four years and this really brings me back.  Wonderful image!
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Re: Tuscany in fall
« Reply #11 on: November 15, 2017, 05:16:56 am »

Excellent composition and light, as always. On a sad note, we will see the impact of a dry and not-normal warm season soon...

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Re: Tuscany in fall
« Reply #12 on: November 15, 2017, 06:57:06 am »

Good job Hans! I was there for Workshops both twice mid- and end- of October, when I got very uncooperative weather and blue skies, and a third time last weekend, when the weather was just great instead :) It was a very strange fall, very warm late in the season. I loved it how you composed Terrapille and the "Gladiator's road" leaving the sky out, I assume it was not a very conducive sky that evening and you made very good use of the conditions you had :)

Best regards,

Vieri

Thanks Vieri, my workshop was at the very end of October and into November and we had great sky for some of the days. We did not have rain until the last morning when it was poring down. I went to Abruzzo with a part of the group on a private workshop and we had dramatic weather with rain and snow, so I assume Tuscany had a lot of rain during that week too. Which is really what was needed for the crop to grow. I did not go back and went straight back to Denmark. The composition I did was not due to lack of sky but the kind of compositions I do a lot in Tuscany of only including land in different shapes and formations and I especially like sunrise when the sun starts to hit the land and outline the shapes and the colours.

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Re: Tuscany in fall
« Reply #13 on: November 15, 2017, 06:58:37 am »

Excellent! Just the right light. It seems to be a elevated view point. Is that a hill or what?

Thanks. It was shot from the wall around Pienza where you can overlook the landscape and shoot the various hills and roads like the Gladiators Road in the picture. It is quite different than going down to shoot closer, which we also did.

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Re: Tuscany in fall
« Reply #14 on: November 15, 2017, 06:59:30 am »

Lovely image!

Congratulations!
Erik

Thanks Erik. I missed you stopping by in the Dolomites this year  :)

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« Reply #15 on: November 15, 2017, 07:02:01 am »

It really makes me want to get back to Tuscany. My one visit was in the spring, and now I would love to be there in the fall.

Thanks Eric, I have the fall in early November as my favourite for Tuscany. Of course, I love spring in May, but the late autumn with the fields that have been ploughed and flattened and sowed with the new crop is amazing. Normally there is greenery from the new crop coming up but this year no rain had fallen and it was very dry. But it was still fantastic and all fields were ploughed this time which is unusual.

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« Reply #16 on: November 15, 2017, 07:03:56 am »

Excellent composition and light, as always. On a sad note, we will see the impact of a dry and not-normal warm season soon...

Thanks Paulo, but the rain came when we left Tuscany and I think the crop is growing now like crazy. But the outlook maybe problematic for decades into the future. In hope to live long enough to see this place many times in the future. 

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« Reply #17 on: November 15, 2017, 09:12:22 am »

Simply beautiful. Ken
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Re: Tuscany in fall
« Reply #18 on: November 15, 2017, 09:44:28 am »

A variation on the picture above is the following (not a crop of the above).

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Re: Tuscany in fall
« Reply #19 on: November 15, 2017, 10:53:00 am »

Ooh! You are continuing to torture me, Hans! Gorgeous!

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