Another World

Take 17 milk cows, two cats, two dogs, two goats, one rabbit, some chickens and a donkey with the name Charlie and put these subjects in the beautiful landscape of Dolomite mountains and you get a perfect place where parents can relax and children have a lot of fun.

The name of this place is Col de Tlames, a farm located at 1400 meters above sea level, near S.Martino in Badia, in the Italian region close to the borderline with Austria.

I spent there two weeks in July, with my life partner and my son and then I had also the opportunity to take some pictures for the website of the householder.

I use to live in a quite country area as well, but in that place I had the feeling to be really far away from any civilization (cool).

Actually this blog is not the place to make a review of the location, but it is really worth to mention the tasty milk fresh from the cows and the amazing bright star landscape during the night; the two houses and the cowshed are located enough far away from the nearest village and practically there is no light pollution disturbing the night view of the sky.

The family leading the farm was very kindly and Martin, one of the son, was explaining to us about milking, cows and the lifestyle of the region. Very nice.

As usual for this blog, I would like to present some frames from our photo service.

The indoor photos are the result of the overlay of two different exposures: one for the outdoor scene through the window and one for the interiors. This is a common technique used in architectural photography, in order to get a good exposure either for the part with plenty of light and the part in poor light conditions.

For all the photos I used the Zuiko SWD 12-60 f/2.8-4 lens, set almost all the time at 12mm (equivalent to 24 mm on a 35 mm camera), which was just at the limit to properly cover the indoor scenes.
A wider angle (maybe 8 mm) would perhaps work better in some frames.

With the exclusion of the double exposures, the photos have been post-processed only with the soft filter of Olympus camera, which personally I think it gave a nice pleasant mood, matching the purpose of the photo service.

Only for information, the funny muzzle in the last picture is Charlie, the donkey of the farm.

be Happy,
Luca