Me: Hey webmaster, do you think I should start using my tele lens?
Webmaster: Mh, dunno…
Me: Nah… we are in a hurry and. Hey! Wait, let’s sit here.
Webmaster: What did you see?… The little girl on the other side of the pool?
Me: Yeah, but by the time I change lens she might decide to stop playing. I won’t use the tele lens, let’s what can I get… isn’t the reflection on the water amazing?
Webmaster: Yeah.
Few seconds later the little girl “lost” her ball and it started floating on the water moving toward the centre of the pool.
She wanted to “catch it” but she couldn’t and stood at the edge with the sweetest worried expression I had ever seen.
Her brother (I think they were sibiling) got close to help her catching the ball, but the wind made it “run” toward another side of the pool… they runned as well along the edge of the pool.
The ball reache the point where 2 women were sitting and one of them took the ball and gave it back to the girl who went back playing with the ball, away from the pool.
That’s just one of those little nice good stories you can “see” at the Meeting of Rimini.
Today is my parents’ 30th wedding anniversary
Cool!
They are not always happy, they rarely agree on many things and they are still learning about “how the other one works”…
They are a normal couple of people that “just” do their best to walk together, side by side, toward a Great Point that is actually the same “Thing” that is their union foundation.
I think this is a blessing, and a wonderful example for both me and my bro.
I spend a good part of my life trying to explain people why I do like taking pictures, recently I said to a friend that taking pictures at times is like being surrounded by a sweet strong hug, it warms up soul in a tender way.
In these days in Catania is happening something to remember this girl.
I wanted to go out to take pictures, but most of the activities happens at evening and at night, and if you don’t want to take pictures with flash and you are not a good photographer with cool camera there are pretty few chances to get a good picture… on the night of the 3rd Feb I realized that I could I have tried to go out to take pictures in the morning of Feb 4th with sunlight.
I did.
Oh, I’ve taken several pictures… but that the one I love more, the one I want to remember.
The human hand stretching out to reach that slice of Beauty, of Love, of Eternity… in this case in a form of a simple picture of a “wood” representing a young woman, a saint, who had been killed for her faith. And the priests, at least good ones, always being there, ready, with their humans hands, to help others to get together that reflection of Beauty.
That human hand stretching out doesn’t look so different from me taking pictures trying to find that Hug…
that’s probably the cause that make me desire to choose only this picture to remember, both, the “Saint Agata festivity” of year 2010 and my attempt to picture at least a little part of it, while “changing the town in better” for at least 3 days.
Soon or later I’ll create the gallery with all other pictures, and comment some of those, if happens.
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.
I would like to talk to you about something happened almost an year ago.
For Christmas 2008 me and my boyfriend bought 2 new cellphones. The day we started using them… till now, nothing strange… but, I think that day we were a funny show to see.
I turned my cellphone on and started surfing through the menu, and the various cellphone options and set what I wanted to set and started using the cellphone camera.
My boyfriend “studied” the user manual from the first to the last page and than started using the cellphone… of course he can use it better than I do, now.
That’s us.
I’m the crazy, messy, irrational girl. He’s the calm, rational and tidy boy.
He goes to sleep at 11pm, I tend to stay awake all the night… we substantially talk only in afternoon and early nights
Despite all these differences (there are many others that I didn’t list) I think we are an almost perfect match, the complementary of each other. With time we’ll see if I’m right.
I think this site is a good example/proof of this match
I’m the one that takes the pictures you can see here and cares about the graphics. He is the one that studies how to do site and create its structure. This is a kind of “house” we are building and “he builds it and take cares of house services” and “I take care of the interior design”. Without an house all furniture are useless, and house with no nice furniture is a cold useless and empty house
That’s the way we spend our spare time. Despite all those typical “couple activities” we spend a lot of time taking care of this site. I’ve an idea about a new layout? I talk with him and he tries to figure out how to turn that idea into a fact.
So, it’s all thanks him that now the site and blog has a new layout that is closer to my idea of the “ideal site”, and I hope you’ll enjoy it too.
There is still a lot to do, but I’m really glad of what happened till today.
This post wants to be a special thanks to that boy that stands my craziness, with whom I argue almost everyday but that fills my day and probably the only one who truly trust the chance that maybe, someday, my dream will come true. Surely he is the only one who is giving a concrete help.
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