"I am Darrel Standing. Very soon they will come to get me to hang me. In the meantime, in these pages I will express my opinion by writing about different times and places."
from the incipit of The Tramp of the Stars by Jack London
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It's a simple and direct question, and I would appreciate an equally simple and direct answer, or rather I would appreciate an honest and clean answer. We are talking about photography, only and exclusively photography, so what is your answer? Yes or no?
They climbed every single edge of grass. They have dissolved and overturned every piece of land. They poured quintals of concrete. They glued over hundreds of tiles. But the inexorable force of Nature sprouts at every season, mercilessly, with tenderness and elegance, showing off a beautiful fiery red dress, not at all discreet, just to make the...
In truth I don't meet people, but landscapes.
A ship docked in a port is safe, but that's not what ships were built for.
Trekking and hiking are not just high mountain activities or of exotic locations around the world, sometimes even a simple walk around our house can became a small adventure full of discoveries. The landscape is not just a meadow, a tree and a sky above, landscape is also history and stories, art, nature, flowers, insects, chat and emotions....
In the suggestion of the night that comes with great strides, while rivers of fog flow from one valley to another, in this case from the Val Sporzana to the small valley of the Vizzana stream, a pack of wolves howled wildly in the darkness of the wood below, while I took this photograph. When we say "night of wolves",...
Finally my beloved fogs are back, those cold and impalpable seas that flood our valleys, transforming the mountains into improbable islands.
L'essere creato, adorno del raggio battesimale, in tempi dei quali noi soli conserviamo la memoria, planava nello splendore su ali di gloria. Tutto era canto, incenso, fiamma, splendore. L'essere errava, ala d'oro, fiamma abbagliante.E di tutti i profumi a volta a volta era l'ospite. Tutto nuotava, tutto volava.
A 360° spherical photograph on the train from Parma to Pontremoli, taken one evening after returning from work. The little bike you see in the picture is mine!
The photographic story of a beautiful day spent along a secondary railway line, in the heart of the Po Valley. A historic steam-powered train runs along the stretch from Belgioioso and Codogno, in the Lodi area. The locomotive is a 625, called "Miss" due to its relatively compact size and graceful lines.
Don't be afraid to offer your body and your soul to the forces of Nature.
You said: "To other lands I will go, to another sea.
These cards belong to a beautiful deck named "The Tarot of the Angels", published by the italian publishing house Lo Scarabeo in 2007 with the collaboration of the writer and esotericist Giordano Berti and the artist Arturo Picca.
the stones, the mountains, the trees, the flowers, the herbs, the stars ...
This flame arises spontaneously on the slopes of Mount Busca, in Romagna, in a place perhaps not surprisingly called "Inferno", fed by a natural source of gas that escapes from the subsoil. The phenomenon is famous and known as "the smallest volcano in the world".
Nocturnal thoughts interspersed with the words of the italian poet Gaetano Arcangeli.
"Ionesco said that it is in the unreal that the roots of the real sink. I presume that most people are looking for a sense to the absurdity of existence in rationality and order, in rule and form. The problem is that, by doing this, a gap is determined with the very nature of the Universe which, to put it...
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The circle, perfect shape, female shape, since the dawn of humanity symbol of harmony, balance and cyclicality, like an umbilical cord deeply binds our being with the cycles of nature, life, the female world and the moon, whose shape it remembers.
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