In July 2017 my daughter, granddaughter and I went on a longish trip to the Adriatic coast of Italy. We started in the foothills of the Abruzzi mountains, and pottered down to Otranto on the boot heel of the country. My granddaughter was just over 6 months old at the time, and was already an enthusiastic traveller (and eater).



I took thousands of photos on that trip with my (then) brand new Olympus E-M1 Mk II camera. On returning to the UK I never considered the images for showing to anybody but family, partly because of time constraints, and partly because I didn't think I had taken many memorable shots.



One reason for this, was the extreme contrast between light and shadow in Italy in the summer. I allowed for this by bracketing the exposure on the photos at the time, but the software technology then available made post-processing very difficult (and beyond my skill level). But recently, I came across the photos again, and using my improved skills and the vastly improved software, had another go.



The images are taken in two locations, almost all at sunrise. The first set are of the delightful Trabucci of Chieti province. Trabucci are spindly fishing jetties built out into the sea, and are very similar to the Carralet of the Gironde estuary in France (which have their own album on this site, accessible from the top menu). Some of the Trabucci have been turned into restaurants, and some are falling apart, but a surprising number are still operational.



The second set of images are of the lovely sea stack, inlets and cliffs of Puglia, just up the coast from Otranto. Unlike the British coast where there are also many sea stacks, these are a honey gold colour in the morning, and the sea is warm, so you can (and I did) swim out to them as well as take photographs.

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