For this week’s Sunday Post Jake has asked for distance shots. He speaks of the long shot, the wide shot, and the scene-setting establishing shot. During a trip to Tuscany we stayed in the small village of Verrucole … population just 50 persons. This photo establishes the village as small and somewhat remote on a hilltop in the mountains of Tuscany.
This second shot
highlights the fortezza that sits on its hilltop above the village.
To read about our stay in this wonderful hilltop town see here and here.
Beyond the Brush 
Beautiful!
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One of the things I like about distance shots is the sometimes fading and sometimes changing colours as the scene moves towards the horizon. Distance shots give us the impression of space and depth. They invite us to explore for detail and enjoy the captured vista.
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I love Tuscany. That village must be wonderful to visit, with so few residents.
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It was lovely – we had an old stone house all to ourselves, we had the chestnut woods, we chatted with the locals .. lovely.
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SO lovely!! I want to live there. 50 people in a village is my idea of paradise 🙂
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The remoteness meant we didn’t get to see some things we thought we might, but we saw and did other things we hadn’t even thought of. It was great.
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Good choices of photography for this week theme,Thanks for sharing my friend 🙂
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Tuscany is a truly magical place to visit 🙂
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If we had known how remote our village was I doubt if we would have booked it but, having done so, I’m glad we did. I have very fond memories of our weeks there.
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Lovely photos… and what a beautiful looking place… how did they ever build structures like that on top of mountains.. it would be a major construction today…
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I agree – things we think about too when we see these marvelous old structures in unlikely places, all without hydraulics!
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It’s beautiful,I don’t think I would be able to walk very far around there though – I’d be wheezing all the time!
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Happily we had a car! It took some time to wind down the mountains on those Italian switch back roads.
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What a beautiful place.
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It was – we enjoyed our stay here.
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