PHOTOGRAPHY
MAX 10 SHOTS
Nowadays it is possible to take a thousand photos for the price of one, and so for fear of losing even a single detail we find ourselves overwhelmed by too many pixels which, when put together, no longer reflect the focus of our story. Max 10 shots aims to emphasise that, if the photographs are relevant and have a strong subjective connotation, even 10 shots are enough for a good photographic story.
WILTSHIRE - United Kindom
ENGLISH LANDSCAPES
Oscar Wilde used to say: "Everyone can be good in the country", and he was right. Especially when it comes to the English countryside, or rather the countryside. The greenery, or rather the complex of greenery, the fences, the sheep, the rows of trees, the lonely houses, the fields with their groves and small streams, are an exhausting source of true natural pleasure.
To give depth to a "flat landscape" it is useful to have one or more vanishing points, perhaps with the help of a fence or path
GROSSETO - Toscany
TUSCAN HILLS
When you walk through the hills of Grosseto, you always have the impression that you are being watched by the majestic oaks that stand out against the blue sky between a field of olive trees, a field of pasture or vineyards. They are wonderful sentinels in the rolling Tuscan hills.
To portray trees well, it is important to have a neutral background
such as the sky
CORNIGLIA/VERNAZZE - Liguria
A WALK IN THE CINQUE TERRE
The walks along the paths between one village and another in the Cinque Terre are a succession of highs and lows, olive groves, flower-filled meadows, dry stone walls, overhanging paths and breathtaking views of the entire coastline. "A theatre whose proscenium opens onto the void, on the strip of sea high against the sky crossed by winds and clouds", is how Italo Calvino described the Cinque Terre.
To tell the story of a landscape, one must learn to look at it from several angles, perhaps even from behind.
ASSISI-Umbria
THE FOREST OF SAN FRANCESCO
In Assisi, among the silence and beauty of woods, flowering branches, glades and olive groves, stands the San Francesco's wood. An evocative place of pilgrimage but also of reflection on the peaceful coexistence between man and nature, inspired by the teachings of harmony of St. Francis. And it is here that Michelangelo Pistoletto created "Third Paradise", a work of Land Art with olive trees. "The two outer circles," Pistoletto writes, "represent all the diversities and antinomies, including nature and artifice. The central one is the interpenetration between the opposite circles and represents the generative womb of the new humanity".
Maintaining the same colour tones in several photographs is a bonding element in a service
Lazio
CALDARA OF MANZIANA
A lunar plain, with some geysers of sulphurous water, which gently plunges into a basin surrounded by fascinating birches. The day was particularly sunny, with a beautiful clear light and the white of the trunks with the brown of the resting ferns, made an intense contrast with the full blue sky. The trees in the grove were almost all straight as spindles, more or less all of the same size, every now and then one could see a fallen one that suddenly cut this graphic rhythm in two as if it were one of those abstract paintings from the 60s. When you looked up, the delicate foliage of the birch melted into the blue of the sky and only the fruits in the shape of pendulous cones and perhaps a few sporadic leaves remained there alone were visible. At the bottom of the basin flowed this river with an indescribable color that went from blue to red and finally to white, where the white trunks created soft reflections as if they had been painted on a canvas. Knowing that birch trees are not normally found at this latitude gave this landscape even more a touch of magic as well as unique.
Seeing nature abstractly
ROME-Lazio
ROSE GARDEN
Some shots taken at the rose garden in Rome
The Rose Garden is home to around 1,100 varieties of ancient and modern botanical roses from all over the world. The cultivated specimens come from all over the world: from the Far East to South Africa, from Old Europe to New Zealand, passing through the Americas.
Blur the background, opening the lens wide and automatically increasing the time a lot, makes the flowers stand out a lot
TURIN-Piedmont
VALENTINO PARK
The Valentino park develops along the banks of the Po river and has a great variety of trees.
In autumn the colors are remarkable especially at the first light of the day, when the sun is cutting and slips into itthe trees, or rests on the crowns of trees.
Shoot against the sun using natural elements
to filter the light