Lens-Artists PC: My pick of places

• Manja Mexi Mexcessive

This week we are to make a cherry pick of places that mean the most to us, or so I came to understand Tina’s challenge. As I’ve realised, it all comes down to light. Light and luck.

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Here is a collections of locations that carry a certain spark, make one breathe deeper, or merely had me in it at the decisive time in my life, compiled with the idea of calming me and hopefully you too.

The list is not complete; there are some places to which I haven’t returned with my camera yet, such as Kranjska Gora and Divača in Slovenia, or Umag and Mošćenička Draga in Croatia.

We start at the passage to the beach that doesn’t exist any more. It may exist but it’s not free to pass since it’s been fenced off. Oh, Italians – you rarely fix anything and then you fixed this. It always got the best light.

  • Early days. Look at the wee bestia. Amore said: “Do you wish that I remove the car?”
  • She seems to be running away. The Oracle by Niki de Saint Phalle, Il giardino dei tarocchi. The favourite artistic place.
  • Another favourite find: this eye mural by My Dog Sighs in Trastevere, Rome, April 2018.
  • A, if not the favourite Italian town, so far: Siena. It has this light that never goes out.
  • The Siena surroundings are pretty special as well. Crete Senesi in April.
  • Massa Marittima gave me this incredible photo shoot. Thank you. This was in May. In late September it’s much yellower.
  • A hop to my home town. Tivoli Park in Ljubljana, Slovenia. In the winter much skiing and sledding goes on here.
  • What I’ve learned to think of as “nature”. Lucky me. Lake Bohinj, Slovenia.
  • I haven’t travelled all over much, so such a view can knock my socks off. Yes, this is serenity in the UK. Lulworth Cove, Dorset.
  • Whereas this is where I used to spend my Augusts. Duba, Pelješac peninsula, Croatia. Mt. Ilija presiding. (I climbed that once.)
  • The most peace I felt this year. Villa “My Peace”, Fokovci, Goričko, Slovenia.
  • In some places you just know: oh, things that used to go on here. San Galgano Abbey.
  • Piran on the Slovenian coast is the last light king. Where the sun sets, there is Italy.
  • Childhood view from my grandma’s window in Maribor, the second largest Slovenian city upon the Drava river.
  • And this is Ponte Sisto over the Tiber in Trastevere in Christmas light.
  • I was only in Lucca once. It was so perfect that I’m afraid to return.
  • This is close and I love to come here for the sunset. Bosco della Patanella by the Orbetello lagoon.
  • These trees are not worried. In the winter they get flamingos for company.
  • And finally, let’s come back to the passage to say goodbye to the day.

For Lens-Artists Photo Challenge, hosted by Tina of travelsandtrifles.wordpress.com: Pick a place

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33 thoughts on “Lens-Artists PC: My pick of places”

  3. Have you heard the expression “an embarrassment of riches” MMM? It’s what you’ve shown here – so much beauty to be seen in the world and you’ve captured it perfectly. You’re right, it IS about the light. Your italian scene first and last are superb but it’s Lucca and the sunset photo that follows it that stole my heart!

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  5. Manja, Manja…now you have outdone yourself! Glorious images of the beauty where you live and grew up. Impossible to pick one, or two , or three…”I was only in Lucca once. It was so perfect that I’m afraid to return.” I see why. And the Lake Bohinj! And the last photo…So much beauty it nearly kills me. Well done. I am still alive.

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