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Reading in the time of Covid An interrupted journey All of us in Italy have to face the Government Ordinance to stay home but for essential reasons of need. Everyone had to stop his own everyday life. Like in a post-apocalyptic movie, life started to stop slowly, slowly, news after news. We have been overtaken […]
Carpathians Mission Today is the Remembrance Day and I am in Krakow. Exactly three years ago I left Milan with my off road vehicle fully equipped for the extreme winter weather. That was the beginning of the Carpathians Mission. Amongst all the photographic missions, that one was the longest, in terms of both time and […]
Starry Sky as we have never seen it before. A question bothers me: How does the real starry sky look? The one that the ancient people was used to see? Darkness is definitely gone from our lives defeated by the light pollution. A pollution that creates a light filter dividing us from the possibility to […]
Christmas in Liguria Italy has countless picturesque villages. Amongst them there is Camogli on the Ligurian cost. It is a small village between the sea and the mountains. It has centuries old traditions of sailing, exploration and fishing. It is always beautiful and fascinating, but during Christmas time it is even more quiet and relaxing. […]
My discovery of Estonia It has been years since I first discovered Estonia. A Country I started exploring thanks to Estonian Erasmus friends. I would have never thought that a friendship could have led so far. Estonia is an amazing Country with its reserved, sportive and cultured people and its astonishing nature. A place that […]
Forest at night and obscurity In front of a forest during night time you can easily imagine and understand what was life before the invention of electricity and electric light. Every day at nightfall, the ones who lived in countryside had to face obscurity. I drove into snowy forests, I walked on the mountains and […]
A flag and too many battlefields! The emotions of a long journey It’s always hard to describe emotions and feelings after a 10 days photographic mission in the most remote areas of the Alps to discover the places of forgotten bloody battles. I passed through different emotional states, I had many different thoughts while visiting […]
The mysterious Curon bell tower. This lake and its bell tower coming out from a frozen lake were for a long time on my bucket list. Tourists walk on the frozen lake and go around it. Probably they are just as astonished as I am while looking at this incredible fairy tale and unusual landscape. […]
Winter quietness. Snow with its mantle covers everything, it creates a silent and soft atmosphere. During ancient times snow paused wars and inspired painters. Nowadays snow is related more to mountain and vacation. There is a specific moment of the day in which winter landscape becomes even mystical. This moment is right after dawn. Mist […]
Red moon. Moon charmed human being from the dawn of time, so close and so untouchable at the same time. Eclipse is expected at around half past five and I’m undecided if to wake up that early or not. While the evening runs late an old Italian swing song pops out in my mind “I […]