“I saw an amazing thing…

May 11, 2009

… and I thought about you!”
No, no, it’s not a typical sentence that my boyfriend tells me. It happens, but he is not the only one.

The more the time passes the more happens that someone (realtive, friends, classmate) comes close to me (or send an email) to tell me: “Hey… I have been thinking about when I saw an amazing show (sunset, a flower field, and so on), I wished I could take a good picture of what I was looking at… that’s how you came up to my mind”.

I know, I am not the best photographer in the world. Sure I am not!
The thing that mainly please me isn’t the fact that people think about me about “someone able to take a good picture”. I know that most of them with the proper camera would be able to take a great picture.

What really please me is the fact that people think about me when they see something of a such wonderful beauty that they wish to “save forever”.

That’s one of the main thing I want to do in my life: “helping” people to focus on that Beauty that can fill us completely… I try to do it by helping them focusing on it with pictures or by making them willing to focus more on it, to save it to preserve its memory.

And today happened again, a classmate of mine told me that yesterday she saw Mt Etna during sunset time, and that it was so wonderful that she thought she could take a nice picture, and she thought about me.

Few hours later I told her:”pick up a picture of mine, the one you like more…”. She chosen me this one:

Wow… looks like she loves sunsets! So do I ;D
She commented the picture too. I am trying to translate what she told me:

It’s amazing, looks like you have been able to cath nature power, unsteadiness and  nostalgia.
It’s scaring but at the same time it’s attractive and you would like to lose yourself there forever.
And, at the same time, the picture doesn’t look like a picture at all!
It rather looks like a painting,
and it’s difficult to understand if it’s water, air or fire
there are the elements!
Wonderful!

She asked to be paid for the comment too! (she was kidding of course ;D)

I loved the comment, somehow she told most of the thing that made me take this picture.

I was being in one of my favorite place in my country house, I looked on the right and saw this show. I started yelling out:”Look up! Look up!”
My relatives all around there stopped looking at it, amazed.

It was 28th August 2005.
3 months after I got my camera, I was still trying to understand how to use it…but somehow, I had the “luck” to take this shot.

Well… actually…I have never tried to take pictures that look like paintings (part of me thinks that it isn’t good that a picture looks like a painting) but as Giulia, another classmate of mine (Elisa) and her sister liked the picture because it looked like a painting… and I have to admit that I like this picture also because it looks like a painting.

But I do love more that people enjoy it.

Sorry for the long post, but I thought it was worth