well......holidays over.......real work starts in earnest on Monday, so the next few days just prepapring and editing / selecting the coffee shots for DHL'ing back to UK for Sept 4th assessment.

Probably feeling like more company now and looking forward to Fiona coming out in 2 weeks......yep........over 2 months is a long time on your own.

2 days down south in Val D'Orcia

Just spent two really amazing days down in the far south of the region - this time of year is really busy (Ferragosto National holiday in Italy)
I never managed to find an economical place to lay my head down at night....so I took the un-economical option and stayed in a cahrming boutique palazzo in San Quirico [link]

The room was beautiful, cool smooth Egyptian cotton on the 4 poster bed, cold cotto tiles on the floor, wet room bathroom, breakfast in a shady garden under vines with the food at night served in the adjoining restaurant built around an ancient walled garden...temps were around 35 degrees during the day and 22 at night.
The whole of the Val D'Orcia is scorched and burnt this summer and the shots I took reflect that scorching....
quick 1st edit here [link]
I'll maybe come back down in mid Sept and see if there is any less brown and a little more green. However.....that all said, I had a wonderful few days away even if it was on my own.
I can really recommend the hotel - simply beautiful

Bellisma!

Spamming in arabic

Im being spammed like many others here in dA by a series of Arabic script writing spammers leaving mindless comments and wasting both my time and my patience.

I have a message in English for you. It's very simple !

GTF !

Leaving no comments but 'faving' work

Im getting a tad f**d off and I can really sympathise here with a few other DAs who will remain nameless but chaps.....you know who you are ..coz we've either spoken about this or Im readng your mind.

So....whats it about?
Faving images and not leaving comments - either positive or negative. I feel Im being shafted by some 'cybercreeps' who frequent in here (don't get offended everyone ....I am not referring to 'generically everyone'....but there are some I wonder as to why they come in here ) and snatch and fav work then leave nothing behind....if you like it? then please say so ...and why....if you think it's schiffeze....then tell me why it's schiffeze....don't just come in and fav then vanish off into the ether..

I'll give this a few more days...if it continues, then Im hibernating and removing my stuff.

wibble wibble

6 weeks and only one shower of rain......yesterday !

So......now 6 weeks without any real and proper rain shower....the garden is a burned shell, the grass is dying, the place looks brown and dead but.......the figs are ripening, the lemons are falling off the small tree I bought and planted last year and today i start my official holiday for the month.

Car wash first.....breakfast at Onestis and then a shoot booked with sara later.

Buono !