Still life photograph of a mezzaluna (curved chopping knife) and pomegranates resting on a cutting board, bathed by soft window light.
Its lights glistening in the pre-dawn light, the ancient village of Apricale sits high above a valley in the remote Italian Maritime Alps.
Its gleaming white walls rising above the surrounding landscape of olive orchards, Castel del Monte is a 13th-century citadel and castle situated in Andria in the Apulia (Puglia) region of southeast Italy. It was constructed during the 1240s by the Emperor Frederick II.