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Camera Etrusca Blog tips, hints, guide to locations in Italy, musings

A blog about our photo tours in Italy, photography workshops, photography tips, filters, exhibiting with fun.

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  • Photo Workshops in Lisbon and the Coast. Start dates: May 25 and November 2.

    Posted on 12 March 2018 by patnicholas in PHOTO WORKSHOPS and PHOTO TOURS in PORTUGAL No Comments
    Benagil Algarve

    Camera Etrusca is starting a new programme of photo workshops in Lisbon and the Coast in spring and autumn – the best times of the year for photographers to tour Portugal and enjoy the Atlantic coast’s dazzling light and warm climate, the buzzing atmosphere in Lisbon, and the unrivalled air of mystery and decadence among the eccentric […]

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  • Winter Photo Workshop in Bohemia, Part 1

    Posted on 23 February 2018 by patnicholas in PHOTO WORKSHOPS and PHOTO TOURS in BOHEMIA No Comments
    Mala Skala Pantheon church

    The Bohemian Paradise and  Golden Prague in February Course leader and photographer Patrick Nicholas met old Camera Etrusca clients Peter and Deborah in Prague for the first photo workshop in Bohemia. We then headed off by car with our host my old friend Milan Šroubek to the Bohemian Paradise (Cesky Raj) an hour to the […]

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  • A Tale of Three Cities – Part 2

    Posted on 20 April 2017 by patnicholas in PHOTO WORKSHOPS and PHOTO TOURS in ITALY 1 Comment
    Flying Devil carries prostitute

    Freud, Orvieto and Signorelli  Freud, Orvieto, Signorelli: the Renaissance frescoes by Luca Signorelli had a profound effect upon Freud. In the entrance hall of Freud’s last home in London, on the right, is a picture of Tivoli, a reminder that Italy was his favourite holiday destination and his spiritual home.   50 years after his death […]

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  • A Tale of Three Cities – Part 1

    Posted on 14 March 2017 by patnicholas in PHOTO WORKSHOPS and PHOTO TOURS in ITALY No Comments

    Freud and a Tale of Three Cities: Vienna, London and……. Orvieto. The Vienna home in Berggasse 19 is easy to spot – he lived and worked in two modest, dark flats on the mezzanine floor left and right of the long red Freud sign; 20 Maresfield Gardens, Hampstead, London, is by comparison quite understated, just […]

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  • Photo Excursion to Castro on our Photography Tour in Italy.

    Posted on 27 April 2015 by patnicholas in LOST SITES, PHOTO WORKSHOPS and PHOTO TOURS in ITALY No Comments
    Patrick Nicholas ruins Castro

    An Off-the-beaten-track photography tour to the ruined city of Castro. Destroyed by the Pope in 1649, Castro was given the epithet The Carthage of the Maremma and today it could be defined as the Renaissance Pompeii. In April 2015 we went on a photo tour to the ruined city of Castro. 415 years ago a […]

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  • Creepy Places to photograph in Tuscany: Castle Cahen, a Mock-Gothic Style Mansion of the Late Nineteenth Century in Italy.

    Posted on 28 March 2015 by patnicholas in LOST SITES, PHOTO WORKSHOPS and PHOTO TOURS in ITALY No Comments
    Cahen_Tomb

    Mock Gothic Horror: painted by Whistler, photographed by Cameron, the tragic story of Christine Spartali, Contessa Cahen. Near Orvieto on a ridge looking over a deep valley into Southern Tuscany stands a sinister looking castle in the mock-Gothic style of the late nineteenth century. It once belonged to the immensely rich Cahen family, still remembered […]

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  • Castelluccio Norcia: Photo Workshop Through Some of the Most Spectacular Scenery in Italy.

    Posted on 16 July 2014 by patnicholas in PHOTO WORKSHOPS and PHOTO TOURS in ITALY, Picturesque No Comments
    Castelluccio_Norcia.wild_flowers.PatrickNicholas.-0960

    A photo workshop day trip from Orvieto to the Sibilline Mountains in July. Castelluccio di Norcia is well known the world over amongst photographers for its picturesque vales of wild flowers at all times of the year – except when it is under snow which at 1500m is for most of the winter. It is […]

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  • Grand Tour: Radicofani on the Cassia.

    Posted on 9 May 2014 by patnicholas in ETRUSCAN PLACES, PHOTO WORKSHOPS and PHOTO TOURS in ITALY No Comments
    Radicofani

    Following the ancient Via Cassia, our photography workshop follows the Grand Tour route. The Val d’Orcia,  famous and  beloved site of modern photographers and artists in Tuscany,  to the traveller of yore it was just a desolate region to be got through. For nigh on a thousand years Rome had been the goal of pilgrims following the […]

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  • Photo workshop in Rome: a three day tour starting at St. Peters

    Posted on 22 April 2014 by patnicholas in PHOTO WORKSHOPS and PHOTO TOURS in ITALY, Rome No Comments
    Vatican.roof.saints.PatrickNicholas.-6965

    Join the Camera Etrusca weekend photo workshop in Rome to discover the artists that contributed to its grandeur. The Rome workshop started on the first day with a visit to The Vatican a short walk from our B&B in Prati. We arrived at St Peter’s at 9 to avoid the crowds and only had to […]

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  • Photoworkshop in Orvieto: Corpus Domini Festival.

    Posted on 5 April 2014 by patnicholas in Festivals in Tuscia, ITALIAN WAY OF LIFE, PHOTO WORKSHOPS and PHOTO TOURS in ITALY No Comments
    corpus_domini_orvieto.PatrickNicholas

    A photography workshop in Italy could not be based in a more appealing place than Orvieto, in Umbria, but on the borders of both Tuscany and Latium. Orvieto is girded by city walls, fortresses, towers and gatehouses. You can walk the entire circumference below the walls on an easy, well made path in a little […]

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  • Hidden treasure to photograph: Octagonal Church Ruin in Val di Lago, Bolsena

    Posted on 8 March 2014 by patnicholas in ETRUSCAN PLACES, Lake Bolsena, LOST SITES, PHOTO WORKSHOPS and PHOTO TOURS in ITALY No Comments
    S.Lorenzo.vecchio_LakeBolsena

    The ancient church occupies a site once sacred to the Etruscans. Lake Bolsena was the centre of their cult. The charm of the place lies in its desolate remoteness in the swamps near Lake Bolsena. Until the 1920s malaria was the scourge of the Italy. Often entire communities were decimated because the origins of the […]

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  • Hidden treasure to photograph: an enchanted secret garden, Stranglers Park in Pitigliano, Tuscany.

    Posted on 25 February 2014 by patnicholas in LOST SITES, PHOTO WORKSHOPS and PHOTO TOURS in ITALY, Pitigliano 1 Comment
    orsini park

    Just outside Pitigliano lies the Parco Orsini commonly known locally as Stranglers Park, and thereby hangs a tale………… Orso Orsini was a prince of wild ways. Wayward brother of the cultured condottiero Niccolò, he married the beautiful Eleanora degli Atti di Morlupo, whose name was long but her life short. He strangled her in a […]

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  • Poggio Conte – Part 2

    Posted on 25 January 2014 by patnicholas in ETRUSCAN PLACES, LOST SITES, PHOTO WORKSHOPS and PHOTO TOURS in ITALY No Comments
    altar Poggio Conte

    There is an extraordinary atmosphere in the sacred glade so it is no surprise that this has been a sacred place for thousands of years. The Sacred Glade was Christianised, but something of the ancient magic remained: the frescoes that remain in the church are testimony to that. The church was cut into the rock […]

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  • Poggio Conte – Part 1, The Sacred Glade

    Posted on 8 January 2014 by patnicholas in ETRUSCAN PLACES, LOST SITES, PHOTO WORKSHOPS and PHOTO TOURS in ITALY No Comments
    Poggio Conte Eremo san Colomba

    “Sunrise glowed red as I climbed along the gorge; when I reached the grove, I saw the altar slab all scattered with brightness, like the harper’s robe. I put down my load, and prayed to Apollo.” Poggio Conte will appear immediately familiar to anyone who has read Mary Renault’s The King Must Die, a novel […]

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  • Hidden Treasure to photograph: the hermitage of Ripatonna, South Tuscany.

    Posted on 12 December 2013 by patnicholas in ETRUSCAN PLACES, LOST SITES, PHOTO WORKSHOPS and PHOTO TOURS in ITALY No Comments
    ripatonna cicognina

    One of the interesting lost sites within an hour of Orvieto we made a Camera Etrusca excursion to the hermitage of Ripatonna. Much of what is now known as northern Latium north of Rome on the borders of Tuscany was until the 1930s a veritable wilderness. Saracen pirates had scourged the area and malaria had […]

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  • Hidden Treasure to photograph: Diana’s Baths in Castelgandolfo, Rome

    Posted on 14 November 2013 by patnicholas in LOST SITES, PHOTO WORKSHOPS and PHOTO TOURS in ITALY, Rome No Comments
    Diana baths Castelgandolfo

    I have no idea why, but it was my dream as a child to find underground Roman ruins at the bottom of the garden. This dream was to come true when my wife and I moved to Castel Gandolfo in 2002. We rented a flat in the grounds of a villa once owned by Visconti, bought […]

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  • Hidden Treasure to photograph: The Roman Tunnel, Lake Albano near Rome Italy

    Posted on 1 July 2013 by patnicholas in ETRUSCAN PLACES, LOST SITES, PHOTO WORKSHOPS and PHOTO TOURS in ITALY, Rome 1 Comment
    Lake_Albano, Castelgandolfo

    Rome is known as the Eternal City and no city on earth has a comparable wealth of ancient ruins. The tireless documentor of  Roman ruins Piranesi (1720-78) made a good living selling his topographical images to visitors on the Grand Tour. But whereas Canaletto used lenses and the camera obscura to ensure that his views […]

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  • Place to photograph around Rome: The Temple of Diana in Nemi

    Posted on 23 June 2013 by patnicholas in LOST SITES, PHOTO WORKSHOPS and PHOTO TOURS in ITALY, Rome 3 Comments
    vesta temple nemi

    Italy has an extraordinary amount of antiquities that are simply abandoned; no ticket office, no maintenance, no security, just overgrown. Sometimes I come across a place purely by chance, sometimes I have been tipped off by a local, sometimes because I have read about it and have made a search. I will endeavour to post […]

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  • Photo Workshops with Colourful Benefits in Tuscany

    Posted on 31 May 2013 by patnicholas in GETTING ABOUT, ITALIAN WAY OF LIFE, PHOTO WORKSHOPS and PHOTO TOURS in ITALY No Comments
    Photo workshop during the wildflowers season

    Late Spring: The Season of Wildflower in Italy. Spring in Italy may have been slow in coming this year, but all that rain means even more wild flowers – especially poppies. Come to Tuscany and Umbria in June and you will see the brightest and most colourful wild flowers anywhere in Europe. Normally poppies last […]

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Photo Excursion to Castro on our Photography Tour in Italy.

Posted on 27 April 2015 by patnicholas in LOST SITES, PHOTO WORKSHOPS and PHOTO TOURS in ITALY No Comments
Patrick Nicholas ruins Castro

An Off-the-beaten-track photography tour to the ruined city of Castro. Destroyed by the Pope in 1649, Castro was given the epithet The Carthage of the Maremma and today it could be defined as the Renaissance Pompeii. In April 2015 we went on a photo tour to the ruined city of Castro. 415 years ago a […]

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Creepy Places to photograph in Tuscany: Castle Cahen, a Mock-Gothic Style Mansion of the Late Nineteenth Century in Italy.

Posted on 28 March 2015 by patnicholas in LOST SITES, PHOTO WORKSHOPS and PHOTO TOURS in ITALY No Comments
Cahen_Tomb

Mock Gothic Horror: painted by Whistler, photographed by Cameron, the tragic story of Christine Spartali, Contessa Cahen. Near Orvieto on a ridge looking over a deep valley into Southern Tuscany stands a sinister looking castle in the mock-Gothic style of the late nineteenth century. It once belonged to the immensely rich Cahen family, still remembered […]

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Castelluccio Norcia: Photo Workshop Through Some of the Most Spectacular Scenery in Italy.

Posted on 16 July 2014 by patnicholas in PHOTO WORKSHOPS and PHOTO TOURS in ITALY, Picturesque No Comments
Castelluccio_Norcia.wild_flowers.PatrickNicholas.-0960

A photo workshop day trip from Orvieto to the Sibilline Mountains in July. Castelluccio di Norcia is well known the world over amongst photographers for its picturesque vales of wild flowers at all times of the year – except when it is under snow which at 1500m is for most of the winter. It is […]

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