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Earth and Moon

Posted on 4 November 2009 by MBadmin

NIKON D40X (130mm, f/5.6, 1/80 sec, ISO100)
A lucky combination: a day with strong wind (so the sky is clear and blue), the position of the moon close to the mountain, and the subject is ready to be photographed. Just a touch of polarizer and it’s done. In my humble opinion, a minimalistic set of colors like here results in a stronger image.

Posted in Landscape | Tagged blue, clear, close, color, colors, day, Earth, earth and moon, gray, image, light, minimalist, moon, mountain, nature, outdoor, polarizer, position of the moon, ray, silence, sky, stone, white | 5 Comments

Green Lake

Posted on 12 October 2009 by MBadmin

NIKON D40X (20mm, f/9, 1/10 sec, ISO100)
I was intrigued by the description of a small lake close to Bardonecchia (NW Italy), called “Green Lake” because it should look green, so I went there to check how much green it was… and it was a lot! The color is caused by a sort of green seaweed on the lake bottom. It is shallow, and the water is very clear, so the color of the seaweed is very, very evident, as you can see here. A wonderful walk in an enchanting valley.

Posted in Color, Landscape | Tagged Bardonecchia, bottom, clear, close, color, enchanting valley, green, Green Lake, HDR, Italy, lake, lake bottom, nw italy, pine, sea, seaweed, small lake, trees, valley, water | 1 Comment

Frecce Tricolori

Posted on 5 October 2009 by MBadmin

NIKON D40X (200mm, f/5.6, 1/1000 sec, ISO200)

The Lomçovak (end-over-end tumble) aerobatic maneuver perfomed by the Frecce Tricolori (the Italian military aerobatic team) soloist plane during the 100th anniversary Cameri airport show. The blue of the sky and the spinning shape of the white smoking trail had a good chromatic contrast.

This picture was signalled as “noteworthy” in the Photo Friday challenge of March 17,2011. Thanks to all the viewers!

Posted in Color, Landscape, Photofriday noteworthy, Sport | Tagged aerobatic, aerobatic team, Air, airport, blue, clear sky, color, Colourful, contrast, day, Frecce, frecce tricolori, jet, Lomçovak, maneuver, military team, noteworthy, picture, plane, shape, sky, smoking, soloist, strong colors, trail, white | 5 Comments

Hommage to Trey Ratcliff

Posted on 18 September 2009 by MBadmin

NIKON D40X (200mm, f/7.1, 1/125 sec, ISO100)
Trey Ratcliff is one of the world most known HDR prhotographer, and his site “Stuck in Customs” is very famous and appreciated. I have done this urban image with the idea of doing it in a similar way like he could have done it (maybe? Only Trey could tell!).

Posted in Color, Landscape | Tagged buildings, city, HDR, Hommage, image, leaf, photoblog, ratcliff, strong colors, Stuckincustoms, trees, Trey Ratcliff, urban, window | 1 Comment

Les Baux de Provence rocks

Posted on 3 September 2009 by MBadmin

NIKON D40X (18mm, f/8, 1/250 sec, ISO100)
Walking around the base of the castle of Les Baux de Provence (southern France)I saw this nice texture effect of the water flowing in the centuries on the vertical rocks, and I couldn’t resist to take a shoot. Despite to the apparencies, it’s not an HDR image.

Posted in Color, Landscape | Tagged castle, centuries, clouds, colors, effect, flow, flowing, France, HDR, ice, image, les baux de provence, light, provence, rock, rocks, sky, south of france, southern France, texture, vertical, water, wing | 2 Comments

Regular

Posted on 29 August 2009 by MBadmin

NIKON D40X (200mm, f/5.6, 1/200 sec, ISO100)
I found this plantation in the middle of Southern France. I like the regular disposition of the trees and that they’re almost all similar in size. The long lens compression effect helps a lot this image.

Posted in Black and white, Landscape | Tagged Black and white, botanical, countryside, effect, field, France, image, natural, outdoor, plant, silence, southern France, sun, tree, trees | Leave a comment

Colourful cornfield and sky

Posted on 9 August 2009 by MBadmin

NIKON D40X (55mm, f/5.6, 1/125 sec, ISO100)
Walking in the surroundings of my home, I saw the great contrast between the oblique row of corns, the bare tree and the sky. I admit I pushed a bit with contrast, saturation and so on, but this time, NO HDR! 🙂

Posted in Color, Landscape | Tagged botanical, clouds, color, colors, Colourful, contrast, cornfield, corns, diagonal, field, HDR, home, nature, plant, plants, Rivoli, saturation, scenery, seasonal, sky, strong colors, summer, tree | 4 Comments

Peaks coming out

Posted on 13 July 2009 by MBadmin

NIKON D40X (200mm, f/5.6, 1/640 sec, ISO100)
I was in mountain during a quite gray day. Sometimes a small clear patch happened in the clouds, and I was lucky enough to capture these peaks which came out for few minutes. They make me think to a dreamy atmosphere. The picture was taken in Lanzo valley (NW Italy)

Posted in Black and white, Landscape | Tagged atmosphere, Black and white, BW Italy, clear, cloud, clouds, day, gray, Italy, Lanzo Valley, mountain, nw italy, patch, Peaks, picture, ray, sky, snow, Valle di Lanzo, valley | 6 Comments

Saintes Maries de la Mer streetlamps

Posted on 10 July 2009 by MBadmin

NIKON D40X (200mm, f/5.6, 1/640 sec, ISO100)
Walking in Saintes-Marie-de-la-Mer (Camargue, France) shoreline, I saw these nice lod-looking streetlamps, and with the light cloud overcast it was easy, just pushing the contrast a bit, obtain an almost black or white image.

Posted in Black and white, Landscape | Tagged black, Black and white, bw, Camargue, camargue france, cloud, contrast, France, ice, image, light, Maries, overcast, Saintes Maries de la Mer, Saintes-Marie-de-la-Mer, shoreline, streetlamp, streetlamps, tree, white | 1 Comment

Saint Honorat

Posted on 24 June 2009 by MBadmin

NIKON D40X (18mm, f/5.6, 1/125 sec, ISO100)
Someone believe that just tropical islands have the sea transparent almost as glass. It’s not true: I took this picture at the Isle of Saint Honrat, just in front of Cannes (France), from the top of the old monaster of the Cistercian monks (which still today are living on the island).

Posted in Color, Landscape | Tagged Cannes, cannes france, Cistercian, cistercian monks, clear, colorful, day, France, glass, HDR, Honorat, island, Isle, monaster, panorama, picture, saint honorat, sea, sky, south of france, sunny, transparent, water | 2 Comments

Pink Flamingos

Posted on 19 June 2009 by MBadmin

NIKON D40X (170mm, f/5.6, 1/320 sec, ISO100)
Some pink flamingos in Camargue (France). I was impressed by their ability to sleep on a single leg with their long neck so bend. In this season they’re not so pink, but the wing underneath is much more colored.

Posted in Color | Tagged Camargue, camargue france, color, France, HDR, leg, neck, pink, pink flamingos, pond, red, sea, sleep, wing | 1 Comment

WAG 2009 – airshow

Posted on 14 June 2009 by MBadmin

NIKON D40X (150mm, f/5.6, 1/640 sec, ISO100)
The WAG 2009 (World Air Games) finished on June 13, 2009, but the next day an airshow took place at Turin Aeritalia airport. Many interesting planes (but also many other flying machines) were present. Among them an erobatic team using ultralight planes (Alpi Pioneer). I’ve shoot a lot of images, but I prefer this one for it’s colors and for the shapes of the smoking trails. The diagonal main line and off-centered subjects adds even more dynamism to the picture.

Posted in Color, Sport | Tagged aeritalia, aerobatic, aerobatics, Air, airport, airshow, color, colors, day, diagonal, dynamism, HDR, image, light, picture, pioneer, plane, planes, red, shape, smoking, trail, Turin, ulm, ultralight, ultralight planes, wag, wag 2009, world air games | Leave a comment

WAG 2009 – hang gliding speedrun

Posted on 10 June 2009 by MBadmin

NIKON D40X (130mm, f/5.6, 1/400 sec, ISO100)
Again from the Turin World Air Games 2009: at the end of the hang-gliding speedrun round, Andrea Iemma (an Italian pilot) uses his feet to slow down the speed just before landing on the raft. This image make me think to some kind of swan splashing in the lake. The backlight helped a lot to have the water textures and the mix of colors: an ideal shoot condition to get this kind of pictures from the shore line, in fact there were a lot of photographers to capture these magic moments.

Posted in Color, Sport | Tagged Air, Avigliana, blue, clear sky, color, colors, day, duty, hang gliding, HDR, image, Italy, lago, lake, landing, light, magic, outdoor, picture, pilot, pontoon, raft, sky, speed run, splash, target, texture, Torino, Turin, wag, wag 2009, water, world air games | Leave a comment

WAG 2009 – paragliding accuracy

Posted on 9 June 2009 by MBadmin

NIKON D40X (18mm, f/8, 1/250 sec, ISO100)
The World Air Games, take place in Turin (Italy) from 6 to 9 June 2009 (you can see a lot of infos on the WAG2009 website). I’m one of the judges for the Paragliding Accuracy competition, which is on the Avigliana lake: The landing spot is on a raft in the lake (the same used by the paragliding aerobatics, hang-gliding aerobatics and speed-run competition). I don’t have much spare time to take photos during my duty as judge, but I’m lucky to be in a privileged position, so I was able to get some pictures while on the landing field. This is one of them. Hope you like it…

Posted in Color, Sport | Tagged accuracy, aerobatic, aerobatics, Air, Avigliana, blue, clear sky, day, duty, field, Italy, judge, lago, lake, landing, leg, light, outdoor, paragliding, parapente, picture, pontoon, raft, sky, target, Torino, Turin, wag, wag 2009, world air games | 1 Comment

Rusty

Posted on 19 May 2009 by MBadmin

NIKON D40X (36mm, f/14, 1/60 sec, ISO100)
An empty high mountain creek bed, where the remains of an old oil barrel (I suppose it is: I can’t be sure about what it was!) demonstrates what happens when laying on the bottom together with rolling stones and flowing water. The vivid rust color has a great contrast with the stone background, which seems a bit a lunar landscape.

Posted in Color, Landscape | Tagged bottom, color, contrast, creek, creek bed, empty, flow, flowing, HDR, lunar landscape, moon, mountain, mountain creek, oil, oil barrel, reddish, rust, rust color, rust rusty, stone, stone background, water, wing | 1 Comment

Fishermen

Posted on 4 May 2009 by MBadmin

NIKON D40X (200mm, f/10, 1/400 sec, ISO100)
Some fishermen were on the Ceresole Reale dam lake (yet quite empty in this season). I was fascinated by their positions and the few colors present: just the blue over the b/w. I had to wait until some cloud shadows came to help to avoid a too much white background. The result is an image with some fairy-tale setting.

Posted in Color, Landscape, Sport | Tagged Air, atmosphere, blue, Ceresole, cloud, cloud shadows, clouds, color, colors, dam, dam lake, empty, failry tale, fairy tale, Fishermens, flowing, frozen, HDR, image, lake, mountain, sea, setting, shadow, sunny, valley, white | 1 Comment

“El Capitan” rock in France

Posted on 29 April 2009 by MBadmin

NIKON D40X (52mm, f/8, 1/160 sec, ISO100)
I was wandering in Haute Provence – South of France, when I found this beautiful mountain. It remebered me the famous “El Capitan” rock in Yosemite National Park (this one is smaller, anyway) and the Ansel Adams images, so I stopped and found a good location where take this shoot, of course in black and white like the Master.This is a tribute to him and his art.

Posted in Black and white, Landscape | Tagged ansel adams, black, Black and white, clouds, dam, France, haute provence, HDR, image, location, mountain, nature, outdoor, park, photography, provence, red, rock, sky, south of france, sun, trees, tribute, Verdun, vertical, white | 5 Comments

Notre Dame du Roc

Posted on 19 April 2009 by MBadmin

NIKON D40X (18mm, f/5.6, 1/400 sec, ISO100)
A wonderful small church over the town of Castellane (Haute Provence – South of France). The church is placed on the top of a rock, which, even if when seen from the town looks a demanding hike, is an easy and nice walk of half-hour. When on the top, I was fascinated by how the church is well amalgamented with the mountain, and by the silence. The presence of nice clouds helped me to take this shoot when resting on the side of the rock.

Posted in Architecture, Color, Landscape | Tagged castellane, cloud, clouds, dam, day, France, haute provence, ice, mountain, nice walk, presence, provence, rock, silence, south of france, town | 4 Comments

Skyscraper?

Posted on 17 March 2009 by MBadmin

NIKON D40X (18mm, f/5.6, 1/125 sec, ISO100)
Walking in Turin, I passed by chance under the tallest (as for today) private building of the town. Of course it’s small if compared with other skyscrapers (this has 19 floors and is 109 m. high, built in 1931), anyway it stretch skywards if compared with the surrounding blocks. It’s tall enough to play with geometry lines when an image is shooted close and below.

Posted in Architecture, Black and white | Tagged Black and white, buildings, close, day, floor, geometry, HDR, image, pattern, rape, red, sky, skyscraper, town, Turin, urban | 6 Comments

Contrails

Posted on 25 February 2009 by MBadmin

NIKON D40X (26mm, f/10, 1/400 sec, ISO100)
The contrails in the sky were drawing roads and curves, almost abstract and very graphic. A perfect subject.

Posted in Black and white, Landscape | Tagged abstract, contrails, contrast, curves, dark, deep, graphic, image, sky, trail, wing | 5 Comments

Golden bars

Posted on 10 February 2009 by MBadmin

NIKON D40X (90mm, f/7.1, 1/800 sec, ISO100)
Sunset close to the Turin Politecnico Remote Heating Plant. There was a interesting light contrast between the golden metallic elements (looking like gold bars) and the clear sky.

Posted in Architecture, Color | Tagged clear, clear sky, close, colorful, contrast, eating, evening, golden, golden bars, Heating, light, metallic elements, plant, politecnico, Remote, remote heating plant, sky, sun, sunset, Torino, Turin | 2 Comments

Above the clouds

Posted on 5 February 2009 by MBadmin

NIKON D40X (38mm, f/4.5, 1/40 sec, ISO100)
Flying over the Alps, coming back home in the evening, I noticed the clouds below moved by strong winds in many waves, following the orography of the mountains. I found interesting this effect, especially if compared with the clear sky over them. I choose to use black and white because it stress the attention to the wave shapes.

Update: this image has been one of the 15 most popular pictures in the weekly themes by VFXY for the July 24, 2009 week, when the theme was “Null or Empty”

Posted in Black and white, Landscape | Tagged Alps, black, Black and white, clear, clear sky, cloud, clouds, coming back home, effect, empty, evening, evning, fluid, HDR, home, ice, image, jet, light, mountain, orography, outside, pattern, picture, red, scenery, setting sun, shape, sky, smooth, strong winds, sunset, superior, waves, white, wing | 4 Comments

Fog and snow

Posted on 26 January 2009 by MBadmin

NIKON D40X (80mm, f/5.3, 1/20 sec, ISO100)
There was still some morning fog in the countryside when I saw these couple of trees and the sun almost covered by the clouds. The feeling was, one more time, silence, loneliness and mistery. The noise of the shot was the only one to disturb the muffled atmosphere. Magic.

Posted in Black and white, Landscape | Tagged atmosphere, Black and white, cloud, clouds, cold, countryside, cover, environment, fog, HDR, loneliness, magic, morning, red, silence, sky, snow, soft sunlight, sun, tree, trees | 3 Comments

The Castle of Rivoli

Posted on 18 January 2009 by MBadmin

NIKON D40X (18mm, f/7.1, 1.3 sec, ISO100)
This is a very classical style picture, very didactic (also known as a “postcard picture”) of the Castle of Rivoli. It’s style was inspired by the wonderful HDR images by Trey Ratcliff blog Stuckincustoms.com. Walking around the castle, I found what was looking to me as a good place and a good light to shoot a picture like the Trey ones.

Posted in Architecture, Color | Tagged buildings, Castello di Rivoli, castle, colorful, dusk, evening, HDR, hdr images, image, light, photoblog, picture, postcard, ratcliff, red, Rivoli, sky, Stuckincustoms, sunset, Trey Ratcliff | 2 Comments

White symmetry

Posted on 11 January 2009 by MBadmin

NIKON D40X (82mm, f/5.3, 1/80 sec, ISO100)
Early morning after the biggest snowfall of the last 20 years here. I was fascinated by the symmetry given by the trees and the garden seats. Also the “sky” done by the branches was intriguing. The image is b/w, but there were so little different colors, that also in color would have been almost the same.

Update: this is my first image which has been accepted on , a very interesting artsproject. If you like great images, take a look there.

Update2: This image was selected as a noteworthy in the Photofriday challenge with the “White” theme on 20 January 2009. Thanks to all who voted for this image!

Posted in Black and white, Landscape, Photofriday noteworthy | Tagged 1x.com, Black and white, botanical, bright, cold morning, color, colors, day, fall, freeze, frost, frosty, frozen, garden seats, image, morning, naked trees, nature, noteworthy, onexposure, outdoor, outside, photofriday, plant, recent snow, sea, silence, simmetry, sky, snow, snowfall, sunny, sunrise, tree, trees, white, winter, winterly | 20 Comments

Hoar frosted countryside

Posted on 6 January 2009 by MBadmin

NIKON D40X (200mm, f/5.6, 1/250 sec, ISO100)
Coming back home and looking to the opposite side of the upcoming setting sun, I saw these hoar frosted trees and their background. The dark sky behind was too much appealing to just look and forget, so I quickly stopped (it was really cold) to take this shoot , an unperfect one, but -again- I liked too much the colors to avoid taking this one.

Posted in Color, Landscape | Tagged cold, color, colors, coming back home, countryside, dark, dark sky, frost, frosty, frozen, HDR, hoar frost, home, horizon, naked trees, nature, outdoor, recent snow, setting, setting sun, silence, sky, snow, sun, sunset, tree, trees, winter | Leave a comment

Snowfall pause

Posted on 4 January 2009 by MBadmin

NIKON D40X (200mm, f/5.6, 1/50 sec, ISO100)
During a pause of snowfall I took this image from my home window. With the standard white balance setting it turned out to be so blue, and I kept this because it was the real light of that moment. For sure it looks very cold, and that’s true: it was a really cold day! The brushwood looks really drown in the snow.

Posted in Color, Landscape | Tagged abstract, balance, blue, brushwood, clouds, cold, day, drown, environment, fall, home, image, light, outdoor, plants, recent snow, setting, snow, snowfall, white, window, winterly, wood | 1 Comment

Roof tiles and snow

Posted on 26 December 2008 by MBadmin

NIKON D40X (200mm, f/36, 1/2 sec, ISO100)
Cold, ugly, with snow and rain. These are the adjective which came up to my mind describing this day. Looking the gray sky I saw anyway these roof tiles, with their quiet order which doesn’t care of the weather. I like their strong appearance, and their classical color. The result is this graphical and somehow abstract (again!) image.

Posted in Architecture, Landscape | Tagged abstract, brown, clouds, cold, color, day, frozen, graphic, gray, gray sky, ice, image, minimalist, outside, rain, ray, red, roof tiles, rooftops, sky, snow, surreal, weather, wet, winter, winterly | 4 Comments

Naked trees and sky

Posted on 24 December 2008 by MBadmin

NIKON D40X (34mm, f/7.1, 1/2 sec, ISO100)
Looking to the sky I saw this color contrast between the evening blue and the reddish clouds. I moved to a position where the winterly naked trees could be included in the image. They added a sort of silhouette and texture to the image, so to avoid a picture quite similar to a flag reproduction. I see this image both graphic and abstract as well as a style research picture.

Posted in Color, Landscape | Tagged abstract, blue, blue sky, botanical, cloud, clouds, color, colors, contrast, evening, graphic, HDR, image, naked trees, picture, ray, red, reddish, reddish clouds, sea, silence, silhouette, sky, sunset, texture, tree, trees, winter, winterly | 6 Comments

Rivoli by night

Posted on 21 December 2008 by MBadmin

NIKON D40X (40mm, f/7.1, 7.1 sec, ISO100)
I had some spare time to spend, so I climbed up to the square in front of the Rivoli castle, with the Collegiata Alta bell-tower and Turin hill in the background . Even if not late, it was almost night, and i took some shots to get some colors which are available just for few minutes at the dusk. Color balance in this kind of image is always a compromise, and the contrast between the cold sky and the warm artificial light usually results in nice postcard-like pictures, especially using HDR technique.

Posted in Color, Landscape | Tagged artificial light, balance, bell-tower, blue, buildings, castle, city, cold, color, color balance, colorful, colors, contrast, dusk, HDR, ice, image, leg, light, lights, night, panorama, picture, postcard, Rivoli, scene, scenery, silence, sky, Torino, tower, town, Turin, urban, winter | 8 Comments