Again from 7th January tests.

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The Lachea Isle, composed mainly of basaltic rocks in several places topped by metamorphosed Pleistocene clays, is the largest of the Cyclops Islands, and it is of volcanic origin linked to the first submarine eruptions in the Gulf of Acitrezza, dating back some 500.000 years ago.

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“Experiment” is a word that is often said by people around me.
I have grown up in a scientific environment
I had decided to study science
I am probably going to live the rest of my life in a scientific environment, indeed, the lack of money given to university in Sicily is going to change my life in 2 days.
This word is such a big part of my life that I often use it to describe what I do with photography… no, no, I don’t say “experiment” to sound like a smart-scientific-artist… it’s what I actually do since I have not the patience and probably the humility to open books or follow photography courses…
ok…
to be 100% precise I have to say that at first I looked at others’ works a lot (I still take inspiration by them),
that with time you get experience (a lot to do yet)
and the both last things help a lot to know what can you do with the camera and, therefore, to know toward which direction you can move with your experiments (like for a scientist that has to know how his instrument works).
But that’s what I essentially do: take the camera and see what I get and in some days i focus on specific “experiments”.
This is the long exposure time.
This is the first shot I am sharing that I took with a double polarize (tomorrow is the second).
This is the first shot on which I have started to work on, but that I decide to leave at the point I left it before dinner. It’s an incomplete work that tells to where stuck the conversation between me and the webmaster about this “new” method of taking pictures.
I don’t think I’m the first doing what I am doing, but i am sure that I have never read (so far) of people doing what I am doing and that I had this idea while talking with my webmaster in front of the sea in the late morning of October 31st.
Today I was still talking with him in front of this picture, while I was working on this picture… then we left for dinner… and I know that we won’t talk this close for a longer time from now.
I wanted to freeze things as they are.
I have other pictures to work on… and I will take more. For today, for another whole day spent with him I want to remember this.
Our chat in front of my works, or while I was taking picture that are just a mere mixture of topics.

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That day I went with school to a local museum about WWII. If I’m not wrong it is mainly focused on American Army landing in Sicily, but it talks about that period in general too. It was pretty interesting.

After the visit I had a little walk with 5-6 classmate who were going home alone, and my father came to pick me and bring me back home.
I asked him if he could brought me to seafront before coming back home. I love the sea 

The sea that day was amazing, a little rough, or “angry” as we say here… But I finally had the chance to get this:

I had always found fascinating the way the sea splash against the coast when it’s rough. Not too rough, but rough enough to do nice water games.

I had to take some pictures before getting this, for some weird reason I was unable to coordinate my click with the splash.

I’ll always remember the way I isolated from the rest of the world, the way I focused only on wind and waves trying to let them “virtually” rock me. I wanted to understand them.

That’s one of the reason that make me love photography.

While taking pictures happens that you’ve to 100% focus on your subject. You’ve to do your best to understand it.

And… even if you’re 100% alone almost each time you take a picture, you never feel lonely or gloomy as you might feel in  group of people not talking with you.

Sea, flowers and everything you can take a picture of doesn’t care if you’re an amazing person or not… it’s all there, for you too.
All the world ask you only to be humble enough to focus on it.

I hope I’ll soon be able to get a similar shot from a more frontal perspective and who knows, now, after 4years I’m probably a little better photographer and I’ll be able to show the “angry” sea in a better way.

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I decided to “steal” part from this amazing letter I’m trying to read.

“Every genuine artistic intuition goes beyond what the senses perceive and, reaching beneath reality’s surface, strives to interpret its hidden mystery. The intuition itself springs from the depths of the human soul, where the desire to give meaning to one’s own life is joined by the fleeting vision of beauty and of the mysterious unity of things. All artists experience the unbridgeable gap which lies between the work of their hands, however successful it may be, and the dazzling perfection of the beauty glimpsed in the ardour of the creative moment: what they manage to express in their painting, their sculpting, their creating is no more than a glimmer of the splendour which flared for a moment before the eyes of their spirit.

Believers find nothing strange in this: they know that they have had a momentary glimpse of the abyss of light which has its original wellspring in God. Is it in any way surprising that this leaves the spirit overwhelmed as it were, so that it can only stammer in reply?”

Pope John Paul II

I’m not an artist, but there words are so true for me…

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I love the sea, I love taking pictures…

That’s the sea in winter,

it’s summer…

why shouldn’t I post this picture?  ;D

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I don’t feel ready, but it’s ok.
I have to go ahead.I have to get these degree even if I regret I’ve chosen to study physics.

So, my old friend “sense of duty” made me studying today too, despite all the desire to go out for taking picture, or to go to the sea.
I have been reviewing stuff with the help of my boyfriend…and, I had a stupid problem in understanding a little thing, and this made me pretty upset.
Yeah, I am a very proud person…

By the way, I need to lie on a bed for a while, so at about 4 pm we went home but I asked to my friend to drive me home through the longest street but where I could see my Mt Etna

to which I shot picture from Catania port dock

That, I could see with the whole gulf

where it’s inserted, all while I was coming back home.

I hate to be living in Sicily, I feel like I hadn’t all the chances I could have in big cities… but I do love those “scenarios”.

They give me peace.

And when all those scenarios where going to disappear behind big buildings,… I found myself thinking about the gulf formation (I studied it at school) and that it has been made for us…
I thought about the fact that it gave a place where to love to thousands of people in history.

That it was just amazing.

I am not serene as I should be, I still feel I could have done more if I hadn’t felt so bad in the last months.
I don’t think I’ll get a good mark at the exam.

But I am sure I will be able to shot pictures at night (got to take pictures during a”social dinner” of a maths teacher congress)
and that my Mt Etna and my Gulf will be still there (well, hopefully or I would die…) even  in the next days.
I promised to both of them to take a good pictures of them as soon as I can. I really need nicer pictures of them, the beauty I saw today isn’t in the pictures I am showing here

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