Looking for a title
December 26, 2011
“Java photo-bombing”
or
“How lazy are these humans”?
Galleries
I’m reading…
So far: four 2012-calendars created
December 22, 2011
You have already seen the Java-theme Calendar for year 2012.
The Calendar made for my brother.
On 19th December officially started “my” Christmas vacation.
This means that on 19th December afternoon I have started doing what I had been desiring to do for at least 4 weeks:
just stay with my pictures and imagination!
since it’s the end of the year I opted to go ahead with the calendars project.
On Monday I created a soap-bubble theme calendar for my mother.
This one will hang on a wall in our apartment corridor for the next 12 months.
On Tuesday I created a nature-events theme calendar for the webmaster:
For the first time he will hang his calendar in a room in north Italy. Big changes in our life are going to happen in a couple of week, I want to give him something that would make him feel at home even for just a second per day.
On late Tuesday a good man I met on the web asked me a calendar for his granddaughter. He asked me a calendar full of cats
Here it is. Except for the cat on the left bottom corner, that is the grandpa’s cat picture taken with a cellphone the rest all all cats picture I have taken from late Summer 2006 to October 2011.
I tried to use lighter colors since it will go as a present for a 7 year old girl. I hope she’ll enjoy it.
This was actually the most difficult calendar since I have no idea of what a little girl might like (but this is another story…)
Now the last big dilemma is left: WHAT ABOUT MINE CALENDAR?
I know that these calendar are not exactly the most useful thing in the world, but people receiving one of these as present seem to enjoy his/her calendar for the whole year.
Plus: I really love making them because it’s another way to enjoy the process that start with a just-white page and ends with a colorful page.
First 2012 calendar
December 5, 2011
I thought to start creating them in a couple of weeks, but today the idea comes you can’t ignore it 
Something people often wonder about…
April 12, 2011
Is the photographer skill to make the subject of this picture looking great, or is the subject itself really wonderful?
This is one of the most frequent people’s reaction after looking at my works. Actually I have to say that listening to (or reading) people wondering this makes me feel unease since I never know how to react.
On one hand I feel bad, almost insulted, because my stupid pride yells “You have doubts about my skill! How dare you?!”. On the other hand I can’t get angry at all because I ask myself the same question to myself and, because, yep, I think that the subjects catching my attention to the point to make me taking a picture of them are really wonderful or, at least, are showing an amazing Beauty.
All this discussion lead to a bunch of thoughts that I don’t want to write in this post.
Today I just want to show you something: a picture my brother took about 10 days ago.
Yep, this is Java and this is not bro’s best work.
Let’s say, this is his worse shot ever!
It’s obvious that my brother can take better shots than this (he is among the 2-3 people that can take a picture of me where I don’t look like my face is going to melt), but I guess this shot can answer a bit to the question opening this post.
Java in a sweatshirt
October 21, 2010
We were outside and Java was feeling cold, my brother felt cold too, so…
What’s better than wrapping your kitty in your own sweatshirt?
The thinker
June 5, 2010
My brother pretending to be thinking
Java-the-cat looking around (or at “that damned flashing thing!”), from a new point of view.
I’m still trying to figure out who is the wisest of the two…
Java the cat
June 1, 2010
My brother decided to call the little cat “Java”. Any idea of which might be my brother’s “job area”? 
Since she is my brother’s cat and I hadn’t other, computer science related, ideas for a name she will be Java (or JV) for the rest of her days.
She tends to be pretty active when old by my brother or by the webmaster.
and at times she seems doing her best to be definitely not collaborative…
Sweet, crazy little cat.
On the contrary in picture taken by the webmaster, when it’s me holding Java, she is often extremely relaxed. I probably caress her too much, but I love to make her purring
The webmaster says she’s the cat version of me.
Shy, cuddle lover, able to be extremely noisy or silent when she decides to (= not in the proper moments).
She is pretty stubborn, sweet and funny and, even the hair color is similar: black looking, but actually brown.
His words!
I just know it had been amazing to have her sleeping on my stomach while organizing the travel to go to the Meeting of Rimini with the webmaster (my boyfriend) on my side.
A little dream that came (partially) true.
We’ll see.
Free Snail
May 9, 2010
Do you remember the “Christmas snail”?
That sometimes had a walk on my hands?
Today it came with us to the house where my brother lives, all around the house there is a little yard. I left the snail on an orange tree (I think it was an orange tree…).
Hope it will survive
I’ve taken several pictures today, I think I’ll publish them tomorrow.
