Oh, little prince! Bit by bit I came to understand the secrets of your sad little life…
For a long time you had found your only entertainment in the quiet pleasure of looking at the sunset.
I learned that new detail on the morning of the fourth day, when you said to me:
“I am very fond of sunsets. Come, let us go look at a sunset now.”
“But we must wait,” I said.
“Wait? For what?”
“For the sunset. We must wait until it is time.”
-Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
An Italian friend started a “post sequel” on “The little prince” by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. Her decison made me looking for that book at home, a book that I love for several reason, even related to my family story
BTW a few days ago I decided to jump through the book pages and read exactly those words (well, were in Italian but the book part is that ;P). It has been a real surprise because I couldn’t remember this part of the book and with greater surprise seemed to describe a little part of my life too.
The following picture has been taken in August 2006.
I publish it only today, because before I didn’t know how to “play with it” in order to get a result I’d like to publish.
Here you can see my brother, who is one of my 2 favorite male “model”.
Why? Beside the fact that he is good looking, he doesn’t mind if you take picture of him then publish them online, he lives close to where I live and…
he has the luck to result nice in a picture even without posing. [I hate, badly hate, to take picture of people in pose ]
Yeah I can assure you, he was not posing… he is just this way, crazy enough to tie his t-shirt on his head while cooking sausage for lunch and facing the sky, while waiting those few seconds that pass from a turn to another to get an uniform cooking
[Of the sausage on the bbq not of himself under the sun ]
What I’m going to write is not a comment about this picture. I don’t think it needs any comment, what it tells is simple and probably an international behavior.
I’m focusing my attention on the kind of picture: “pictures of people I don’t know”. As you can see from the gallery set, I don’t take many pictures of people I don’t know, for several reason that runs from the fact I don’t go out very often to the fact I don’t want to disturb anyone. I’ve been told several time to not worry about it, I actually still don’t know what to think about…
But, yesterday, while talking with a crazy man that I recently met online, I went into the “Ragusa” folder of my pictures folder and found the “original” of this picture (actually the original shots is missed as all the original pictures I’ve taken in that period of my life). While I was still talking with my crazy friend who was telling me, for the n-th time, “Go out, don’t stay home for such a long time” I started looking at that picture, I saw those old “enemy”, the reflections on the glass that was between me and that man, and thought: “What a pity, it might have been a nice shot, I wonder if there is a way to make those reflection disappear but…”. In that moment an idea came. My friend had to leave (don’t tell him that I didn’t listen to what he was saying during the last minutes of chat ) and I tried to follow the idea that came up on my mind. In few minutes, seriously, in a very short time, I got this shot.
Yeah, it’s a little blurry, it’s not perfect. You can still see a little reflection on the right, but “I did it”: I have been able to pull out that picture what I saw that day.
I wonder if I had been able to do such a thing 4 years ago now I would have been taking more pictures to people.
Well, actually I wonder if this man is still alive, I hope yes for him.
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