6.00 am, colors and atmosphere of an autumn morning in Tuscany ..

Very striking. Wonderful colours and texture. Unusual composition, but it works well.

Edmondo, your photographs make me want to move...great scenes...regards....David

Like David, your photos of this region inspire me to, at the least, take a close look.   I look at these homes in disrepair and wonder why, and about the history of them.  It would seem Tuscany is a desirable place to be, yet these homes speak of abandonment.  Again, I wonder why?

Marvelous landscape. 7/7

Another wonderful landscape with great textures and colours. Very striking a 7 from me. Best wishes William.

A great picture. But if you cropped a 1/3 of the bottom to get the image more depth.

The houses in the diagonal line and the field behind gives the picture almost three dimensions

But that is my personal opinion.

RegardsTorleif

What a beauty! The Atmosphere is perfectly taken and worked. I love the colors and the textures. Bravo!

Amazing colours and textures. When I view all your images in this folder I truly am inspired and like many have the 'daydreams to move'. In the summer, the hillsides are so green, can anyone tell me what 'crop' is grown on the hillsides??? I also echo Dominick re the farms/estates, so unfortunate that some are in such disrepair. Perhaps because of their age, it would have been very expensive over the years to keep them up, and also if 'family owned', maybe the descendants did not follow in their parents 'footsteps'??

An exceptional capture, especially the rolling hills.  Congratulations.

Bellissima, i toni, l'inquadratura, i colori, la nitidezza, tutto incredibilmente bello. Complimenti, Saluti, Alessandro.

Hello Edmondo. 

More than excellent. 

Kind regards

Bela Dick

An astoundingly good photo. Beautiful composition and perfect editing.

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dreamy image!

While I don't particularly like this photo, I very much appreciate it for a number of its accomplishments. It manages to isolate a scene in such a way as to transform it so that rather than just feeling like I am looking at a representation of what something was like, I feel like I'm in a new world, so to speak. The framing gives it an open-ended and somewhat ungrounded feel to me, as if it's floating. That is undermined a bit by the amount of space on the bottom, which feels a bit heavy to me though it's quirky enough to make me think twice. The color is sophisticated and a bit unusual. The scale works, as does the square crop. More often than not I don't care for titles, especially many I see on PN. I do like this title, which also seems appropriate to the photo, except for the word "atmosphere," which goes one step too far for me. "6:00 am, colors of an early morning in Tuscany" would have been great. "Colors" seems to describe. "Atmosphere" seems unnecessarily to lead.

There is an atmosphere of decadency here. The year ends and the land ends. Land is cultivated but roofs collapse. There are new silos however. The plot I feel is: it is not not necessary to live here to get profit out of crop or the profit is to small to care much. The scene is well lit and beautiful.

The image is rather soft overall but here the cool contrast with these dominant orange stone buildings create some strong points of interest. Our eye is certainly drawn to these as subject. There is also a nice movement through the image. The most dominant seems to be the movement from the darker swales in the lower left up to the lower house then on to the upper house. A secondary path would be from the lower house along the road behind it that leads us into the "ravine' of the background hills and then back up to the upper house. For me, the long forward hill is what gives the image bottom weight and balance.

Even in this smaller version, but very much so in the larger one, the background hill has a very illustrated quality to it, as if a fine drawing. It's a nice effect when it occurs naturally.

My only technical issue with the image is in the upper left corner where something appears blurred out (almost like autumn trees) and also maybe a decision, reversed, to clone out that road with a resultant blotch with an odd termination of its presence.

But overall, it is a nicely seen image.

note: I just read Lech's comment and I had also noticed the collapsed roof as well as a sense that these buildings appeared to be abandoned. It reminded me of how the small family farm can't sustain itself and the land then sold to large corporate farmers. The houses, and their neighbor's, are left empty as they move to more profitable endeavors.

The image is rather soft overall
is What John A. said. I keep looking at the lower hill details and I could see it very sharp,again with all the windows of the two houses and along the scattered pools at the middle hill too which they are looks extremely sharp in the large version.What I have noticed as it looks to my eyes ,there are deliberate softness ,I mean intentional blurring at the trees to the left of the lower house (but not to the right trees) and to the trees at the right of the upper house but not all of them ,the most right one have been spared ,I am just thinking the photographer have done that to mimics the effect of air blowing at the trees .I would be thankful to know what is meant by softness overall.
The image is a fine representation of a autumn mood .

Although the foreground has a very nice details, but still, I prefer this cropping which make the objects management more accurate. Very nice Capture, best regards

A clarification, when i said soft overall, I was referring to the overall sense of the contrast, not the focus. I should probably have been more clear in that comment.

The derelict farmhouses or buildings speak of a former time, much like the effect of the carefully cut and no doubt often reproduced tractor traces that appear on the far off hill. The stonework is I think simply painted red and not a property of the stone itself (as it is, for example in Roussillon, in the Vaucluse), but like a lot of decaying structures that can have a visual appeal as well. I guess I would have liked to see a bit more space around the two houses, something that might confer more sense of place without destroying the nice diagonal symmetry of their relationship to each other.

Edmondo seems to be a fan of big color, which is certainly a trend in photography these days. Big color is fine, when used judiciously. This seems to be one of the less manipulated of his landscape series. The problem, it seems, is that the landscape here is rendered a bit like an industrial landscape rather than what one has previously seen in the agricultural lands of Tuscany (in my case, only via the media). My feeling is that in attempting to intensify the red component in post exposure, Edmondo has altered slightly the rendition of the other landscape colors. As a photo that can certainly be OK as a creative approach. It depends upon one's taste and perception of or feel for the subject matter. If the aim was to show a semi-industrialisation or metamorphosis of a beautiful landscape, then he may have succeeded. The photo has good compositional qualities, and, therefore, notwithstanding its red presence, I wish I could warm to it more than I do.

I feel immediately attracted to this image of Edmondo, because of the choice of format. Square formats offer a very special challenge, leaving everything to the composition, and are very different from other aspect ratios like 3/2; 16:9 or 4:3.
The diagonal centre area of the composition, the hill-top of reddish earth, with the two houses surrounded by ondulated greenish hill-sides in the foreground and bluish hill-sides in the background. The composition creates the adventurous travel of the eye, up to the buildings. All in very pleasant shades of soft colors and equally soft and pleasant forms and textures.
Although the country side looks to be Toscanian, the houses seem not common to the region. Farm houses are mostly with the yellow walls and the reddish roofs of the local building materials. They might be abandon farm houses and now taken over by non-local holiday makers, like so many other similar houses in the area.

My main questioning concerns the light. There are no obvious shadows casted by the houses and yet on the hill sides, lower areas are clearly darker. These darker areas of the hills could almost all be explained by sunlight (at "6.00 A.M.") from the upper right corner of the frame, but nothing confirms this, when looking around the houses. It seems to me that areas have been burned in the post-processing, rendering the the whole image fairly unreal.

I'm frequently puzzled by the Elves choices. I look at a POW and after a time I go to the artists portfolio and find what I think are much better pieces. This is the case here.
I know what I like... and it isn't this. Why? Possibly because the palate doesn't stimulate my interest. There is also an odd continuous lighting or lack of contrast. The overall feel is that the image is overcooked in some odd way.
The structure in the upper left has some type of new white tanks or silos sticking out of the roof that distracts me. Although I'm left wondering what they are I don't think that was the intended purpose of the artist. If I was allowing myself to alter an image I'd remove them.
The framing of the elements is awkward and not balanced.
The photo.net Eleves continue to baffle me....
Richard

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