“Give me the clear blue sky over my head, and the green turf beneath my feet, a winding road before me, and a three hours’ march to dinner” - 19th Century essayist William Hazlitt
I wasn’t on a march and I was only out for two and a bit hours. The sky wasn’t clear but it was blue. I did, however, have a most excellent walk this afternoon and a now looking forward to a hearty dinner.
The Zingaro Nature Reserve is one of the most popular places in Sicily, where you can enjoy stunning panoramic sea views and alternate between hiking and swimming in beautiful coves ~ Zingaro, Sicily, Italy 🇮🇹
Mount Etna in the background, a huge crater in the foreground. I intentionally overexposed this frame when shooting to bring out the beautiful colors of this scene. Catania, Sicily, Italy 🇮🇹
Gear:
• Fed-5 (Kharkiv FED, ~1977)
• Industar-61L/D 55 mm f/2.8 (Kharkiv FED, 1986)
• Kodak Professional Portra 400/36
Here's another shot from our walk last Friday. It's the River Bovey, as it passes through Lustleigh Cleave.
It's a beautiful and tranquil spot for #silentsunday
We saw only two other groups of walkers in our four-hour expedition.
It is a truth universally acknowledged that visitors from the Northern Hemisphere will blithely ignore warnings about the severity of the sun here, especially Summer Sun, and spend their first days in Aotearoa New Zealand sunburnt...
Two wonderful dogs to match the background 🤗🐕🐕. Enjoying a refreshing dip in the water! The background is a rocky cliff on the coast called Scala dei Turchi (Staircase of the Turks) in Realmonte, Sicily, Italy.