Moon in the afternoon
May 24, 2013
I wanted to share this pictures 2 days ago but i still didn’t figured out what to say about it.
Too many words but not a properly shaped thought.
Well, I hope you will just enjoy the picture as I enjoyed taking it
8 years and counting
May 20, 2013
It’s since the first year I have a DSLR that I wanted to take a picture to a spider web.
Each time I found it too late or in the wrong place or it was just me completely unable to figure out how to take that picture
Yesterday, finally I got closer to the wanted result…but just closer.
I didn’t get the picture I am looking for yet, but I can say I am happy for the result.
Now, let’s just go ahead.
A day at the country house
May 19, 2013
The day started in total grayness, but during lunch time a strong wind blew away that kind of huge cloud that embraced Catania and whole mt. Etna (at least the side facing Catania).
It almost cleared the whole sky letting us to spend at least a lovely afternoon.
Well, all this reminded me what kind of tiring fun is to take pictures of ladybugs (or butterflies) when it’s windy.
Details
November 17, 2012
Often it’s a question of little details.
The more detailed the vision of something is, the more correct (usually) is your perception of that system/situation… this means a lot in a lot fields, not last physics.
I hope I am not being too presumptuous to say that a photographer must be as quickly as possible to consider as many details as possible to decide when and of what take a picture.
Unfortunately hurry makes you unable, sometime, to be able to consider EVERY detail… therefore it’s easy that, unless you are an expert (or really talented), when you get back home and re-read your images you discover things you didn’t notice.
Sometimes, alas, happens also that I have all the time of the world to take a picture and when I get home I discover details that both amaze and disturb me.
The disturbing details are the ones that suggest ” you could have done better if you had noticed that…”.
Today, with this 2 weeks old pictures (5 in 1), I think that I’m a little upset as well as I’m amazed.
I hadn’t notice that pine-needle…despite I had set up the “scene” (indeed in a previous post you can find the same chestnut with no leaf at its side)
but even if the pine-needle in the out-of-focus foreground on the right waste a little the picture, I didn’t crop it out of the image…
somehow
I’m liking the result.
Rain drops on chestnut!
November 13, 2012
Some chestnut fall a little further than others
I am wondering if I should create a “rain drops on…” album… ehehe
The dead sorbo
November 8, 2012
At the country house, as soon as you get in you see the house structure and a few trees… you can park your car in a little area at the right side of the gate… there you can find this tree.
A sorb tree that has always been there, being the “dark” protagonist in some of my first sunset pictures taken with my first DSLR.
It has died recently.
There are still leaves on it, offering the last show of beauty that I tried to show with the first picture of this post.
On Sept 30th I had tried to take a picture of that beauty, but there wasn’t the right light.
Sunday (Nov 3rd) there was finally the chance to take picture I had “seen”.
At time it’s you needing to wait for reality to take the form required to tell something
I wonder if, somehow, today I feel like those leaves…
but this is another story
Chestnut picking
November 5, 2012
This year, differently from most of the the last 6-7 years I had the chance to go there with a little of peace and calm and being able to both helping with the picking and taking some pictures.
At times I set up the scene, e.g. I clean the area in front of the subject, or move the objects I want to be protagonist of my shot. This time I didn’t. I tried to take an HDR shot of that part of reality as it came.
Fall time 2012: pine nuts!
October 1, 2012
Despite the weather and the mosquitoes (quite rare in my country house) that makes us feel it’s still summer,
we have already started to “harvest” the typical products of late summer and autumn
Amputee but still standing
April 26, 2012
A few days (or weeks?) ago I have posted a picture of a cherry flower…
In another area of the yard in my country house you can find an old cherry tree that had been attacked by animals.
Or at least I think that’s what happened to it.
We had to cut most of it but it is still standing even if i won’t be able to climb on it to take cherries for a long while.
Anyway… unless I’m making confusion with trees this little guy is still giving me a chance to smile.