Waiting at the airport

Travel time and relativity

What does have to do a photographer travel time with Einstein’s relativity? Absolutely nothing, but blogs need fancy titles and lately seems all photographers are quoting Einstein 🙂 Also if my travel time is much slower than the speed of light and I do not need to disturb Einstein, I was making a trip last

Clearwater Beach Panorama

I’d rather be in Florida in a cat5 hurricane than in Italy with clear skies.

Today I’m following the path of hurricane Irma. It’s a category 4 hurricane, a very bad beast, and she is moving toward Florida and is supposed to arrive over the Tampa Bay area. I lived a year in Clearwater Beach, I been there many times for short periods and I love the place and the

PPA – Professional Painters of America?

identity crisis noun Psychiatry noun: identity crisis; plural noun: identity crises a period of uncertainty and confusion in which a person’s sense of identity becomes insecure, typically due to a change in their expected aims or role in society.   I had been a member of the PPA, Professional Photographers of America,  since 2000. I

nude #1

Milo Moire`, photography and nudes

Today on FaceBook a friend of mine posted an article criticizing an artistic performance of Milo Moire`, the performance in question is “The mirror box” and you can see it here and read a description.     My first impact was to not consider the performance as something positive, but then I started to read

Sunday morning in Koln

Old pictures, dynamic range and Acros…

I was reading on  Swissinfo.ch, the article The breathtaking photos that showed Switzerland to the world by Marguerite Meyer (Writer), Ester Unterfinger (Photo editor) I was impressed by this picture:     The picture in itself is just a good documentary photograph but what I noticed is the dynamic range (or latitude of exposure as

Filatoio Rosso

You camera is not a free pass to every place!

I read on PetaPixel an article by Roman Robroek, an “urbex” photogrpapher… if you wander what this means is a  short for “urban exploration” basically taking pictures of abandoned buildings. He is from Nederland and when he traveled to Austria he entered an abandoned hotel and, few months later, received ~$2800 fine to pay for