Cappella Madonna di Vitaleta, San Quirico d'Orcia, Italia
Fujifilm GFX100S, GF20-35mmF4 R WR, f4 @ 1/25 second, ISO 200

Last week, I wrote about photographing the gondolas of Venice and how it is hard, if not impossible, to create something new and exciting. But we should still take and enjoy our own photos.

This image is also of a very popular location, but hopefully a little different. It is taken behind the most famous chapel in Italy - and I say it's the most famous because you are all photographers and we have all seen that classic little chapel on a Tuscan hill with farm fields all around. So, here I am, behind the chapel. Why?

Although I've visited the location many times before, there's always a chance of getting something a little different by walking around. And while a part of me bemoans the new population of Instagrammers taking their selfies in the middle of my carefully framed composiitons, they can also add a point of difference.

Now, I'm claiming 'a point of difference' because I'm part of the senior generation. Our children and grandchildren will probably look at the photo and think it's the same as millions of others on Instagram - in which case, humour me a little!

Instagrammers seem to enjoy dressing up for the occasion (or, perhaps I'm showing my age yet again and they always dress like this), which in turn can make a common subject a little more interesting. 

I wasn't 100% sold on the framing as, in addition to being prolifice, Instagrammers work very quickly and she didn't keep still for long. I shot what I could and then I cropped to make her position and pose appear intentional.

Some viewers will question her position, down the bottom and looking out of the frame. Fair call, but let me reference the work of portrait photographer Irving Penn and his framing and posing. Many of his most famous photos had an element of tension created by his framing and the angle of his subject and while I am not for a minute putting my work in the same league as Mr Penn, it's certainly my influence.

Soft evening light, a little dodging and burning and there you have it!