Bougainvillea
Positano · Costa Amalfitana · Campania
Eleven in the morning, a side street climbing inland from the beach. Bougainvillea is not native to Italy — it comes from Brazil, named for an eighteenth-century French admiral — but Positano took it in around 1900, and a hundred years later the town wears it like a uniform. The pink, technically, isn't the petal. It's the bract — a leaf pretending to be a flower until the bee is fooled. Beautiful deception, in plain sight. — Photographer's Note
"Positano bites deep. It is a dream place that isn't quite real when you are there and becomes beckoningly real after you have gone."
— John Steinbeck · Harper's Bazaar · May 1953
4 Jul 2019 · 11:02 · Canon EOS 5D Mark IV · EF 16–35mm f/2.8L II · 35mm · f/4.5 · 1/2500s · ISO 500
