@barnabo in October 2021

There was a time when I wake up early to chase the fog. Morning fog moved fast through hills and small town, and it seemed like a sea, covering suddenly lower valleys with white waves. Sometimes, the miracle: a 'boat' appeared, leaving the feeling to sail in the nowhere. Miceno, Emilia Romagna. #miceno #seaofclouds #towerbell # fog #nowhere #nature #emilia

I love foggy woods. The wood is like our life. If you get lost in the wood, you feel panic, and the word 'panic' derives from Pan, who was the god of shepherds and of woods and pastures. If you feel a part of nature, it is a reminder of what life should be: a great communion with the universe. Analogic pic (35mm slide) taken with Nikon Fe2. #wood #liguria #fog #beech #nature #appennino

Arunachal Pradesh and Nagaland, India. In january 2020, before covid19 pandemy, I visited Nagaland and Arunachal Pradesh, two regions in the north-east of India, near Myanmar border. In Nagaland I have met some ex head-hunters, they cutted head of enemies many years ago, and they stopped this traditional activity after the arrival of Christian colonization (Don Bosco). People are animist, christian, buddhist, hinduist, muslims, and they live in peace. Yes, there is a inner…

An old ex head hunters, Nagaland 2020. Nagaland is a region in the north-east of India, near Myanmar border. We visited some tribes and we met some of the last ex head hunters: they cutted head of enemies some decades ago, and they stopped this traditional activity after the arrival of Christian colonization. After each head cut off, the Princess of Nagaland painted on their body a new tatoo. Pic taken with Sony alpha7iii. #nagaland #india #headhunters #tatoo #tribes

I have taken this pic in Italy, on mountain between Liguria and Elimia (lago Santo parmense). I have waited a lot the right time, in the cold, when evening fog meeting last sunrays, creating some special effects. Nikon D800 camera. #wood #fog #sunrays #mountain

I was near Reykjavik, in Iceland. Sitting inside jeep, I noticed a wonderful rainbow (very common in Iceland), I took my head outside and I shooted luckly this pic. In Iceland the nature is wild, and it seemed humanity is somehow foreign, humanity is only a guest in a world dominated by natural forces. I wish to visit Iceland in winter, colder but also wilder, I would love icy landscape around waterfalls. #Reykjavik #iceland #rainbow #birds #islanda

Nagaland 2020. I took this pic in Longwa Wasa village, Nagaland region, India. Longwa Wasa is a small village in the mountain, near the Myanmar border. Our guest house was exactly on the border. People are farmers, and someone build special handcraft works: they painted and add eyes and hairs to animal bones to make them similar to human faces, maybe an heritage to past activities (as I have explained in other posts, some of the tribes were head hunters). Obviously real…

People here are living following old style life: wooden houses, some ones without electricity, some people with a farm, everything with a vegetable garden and animals. It seems a travel in past century. Maramures, Romania, august 2021. #marmures #romania #village #oldwoman #smile

Ski mountaineers on Mont Blanc. In 2011 I skied in Vallée Blanche, from Punta Helbronner (Italy) to Chamonix (France), I wonderful skiing in the heart of the glaciers of Mont Blanc massive. At the start, there was a lot of wind, and I saw far away a group of ski mountaineers. The wind was so strong, it raised the snow, created a beautiful effects, similar to fog. In the background, the summit of Mont Blanc (4.810 meters high). Pictures taken on analogic film with Nikon fe2…

Snowfall in Genoa, march 2005. Snow is very rare in Genoa. A day of march di many years ago, I woke up and all was covered by snow. People were upset and a bit scared, they aren't used to walk and move by car during a snowfall. I took my boots, I phoned to work saying I wouldn't have been there, I took my camera and I went out to take pics. Near the city center, around the famous area called 'caruggi' (narrow streets) and this scene caught my eyes. Ps: open the entire pic to…

Mountain climbers on Grand Tête de By (3588 m), Aosta Valley, Italy/Swisse. It was spring, and some clouds passes on the snowly ridge towards the summit. I think this image represents the smallness of 'man' in the mountain kingdom. Analogic pic taken with NikonFE2 camera, on Ilford HP5 film. #aosta #valledaosta #grandtetedeby #grandcombin #moutain #nature #snow #fog #clouds

Evening rainstorm, with the last sunrays illuminating raindrop. In the background, a wood that seems magic through this special light. I took this picture from a refugee window. Dolomiti, Scotoni refugee, august 1999. Analogic picture took with Yashica FX-3 camera. #dolomiti #rainstorm #italy #refugee #raindrop #magicwood #trees #nature

Here a seastorms in Liguria, Italy. I love seastorms, and I always go near the shore to take picture, when they happen. In the image a breaking wave with Portofino lighthouse in the background. Sky is prepared to sunset #liguria #seastorm #mareggiata #italy #italia #mediterraneo #waves #sea #meditteranean

This little backlight silhouette reminds me God. A gentle God, who holds us by hand. Chiavari, autumn 2004. Analogic pic taken on hp5 film with Nikon fe2 camera. #chiavari #blackandwhite #god #analogic #liguria

This is a collage of around an hundred sunset and sunrise pictures, taken in Italy, mainly from Aosta Valley and Liguria, between 1994 and 2003. Ps: some pictures are from Norway. Every pictures has a story behind, it reminds me a special place, and a piece of my past life. #collage #sunset #sunrise

Calling from nowhere. I was driving in Scotland, through narrow streets in green fields, when something caught my eyes on the left, so I stopped che car, and went back tooking this pic. I like che contrast between the color, the mix of civilization and nature in the same view. Picture has taken in 1999, in color film, with Yashica fx-3. #scotland #phone #phonebox #greatbritain #calling

Pakistan 2005. Hispar village, the last village built in front of the great and wild glaciers of Karakorum range . The village is the last one in Hunza valley, a valley where life expectation is one of the longest of the world (scientists think it depends on a long fasting period and/or the quality of drinkable water). The village village is plenty of children and old people, younger ones are in other place to work (many of them are porters for mountain expeditions). The…

San Fruttuoso, Liguria, Italy 1997. An old woman at the window, it seemed she was waiting for someone or something, who know? Analogic #blackandwhite pic. #sanfruttuoso #liguria #portofino #italy #italia #waiting

Drops on a moss carpet. Moss here is like a soft mattress. Iceland, Hornstrandir 2015 #iceland #islanda #muschio #moss #drops #water #nature

Un'ombra si muove in queste sfumature di verde e grigio. Un'ombra nera ormai lontana. Fugge come fuggono i sogni al mattino o i pensieri la sera. Un'ombra evanescente, vaporosa. Come l'umido del sottobosco, come la terra sotto le foglie di novembre. Come la nebbia. Come una veste in movimento. Ecco che è già sparita. Come era calda e rassicurante un momento fa... avevamo le mani unite. Ora, se non sbaglio, sta correndo lungo il pendio. Correndo via. Tra poco sarà una sagoma…

There was a time when I starved at the sky all day, trying to forecast how beautiful the sunset could be, to take good pictures at it. If clouds and weather had the right 'mood', I took my camera, drove my car quickly up to an hill above home, to wait for sunset colors. A day, I received this gift, I was in the perfect place at the right time, and I took this image. It lasted a lot, all sky has become exactly as you can see. Liguria, Golfo del Tigullio, december 2012.…

Volaia, Austria, july 2013 I was sitting inside a refugee in front of a beautiful lake, on mountain between Italy and Austria. This region is called Carnia, and there are not that many tourists, it is a wild range. Someone in the refugee has said 'look outside the rainbow!', so I went out from the refugee, under the last rain, to see this amazing view! Heartbreathing. This pic is a composition of three digital images taken with Nikon D800 #volaia #lake #mountain…

Machapuchare from Annapurna base camp (Nepal), at sunset. October 2016. Machapuchare is a sacred mountain in Himalaya. I feel there a great communion with nature, with its rules, and I feel the smallness of human being inside che mountain kingdom, but also the beauty to be live. #himalaya #sunset #machapuchare #annapurna #annapurnabasecamp

This tower bell is like a finger pointing towards the horizon, always inspiring us to go beyond. "And my teacher taught me how difficult it is to find the dawn inside the dusk" (Franco Battiato). Santa Giulia church at sunset. Liguria, Italy. #santagiulia #liguria #sunset #horizon #sea #liguria #tigullio

Botiza, Maramures, Romania. We are in a market, and here some Gipsy are selling their horses and other animals. Their life are not easy, they don't want to obey any social rules, and they live an archaic and free life. Gipsy people don't have a official nation, and they are the only people in history who haven't fight any wars. August 2021. #gipsy #maramures #romania #market #freedom

Botiza, Maramures, Romania 2021. Archaic life in the fielda. I was impressed by the strongness of old people here, stronger than many young people. And love for community, God and nature. #romania #maramures #field #farm #blackandwhite

Longwa wasa, Nagaland, India 2020. An old woman in the village. An entire life on her skin. #nagaland #india #skin

Hello to all! Today I want to show you my birthplace. It is Tigullio gulf in Liguria, Italy. It was a day during late spring, with wind, and I went out without camera, by bike. At the top of the hill, I saw this great landscape, with a storm near the sun at sunset. I call a friend of mine who lived there, he is a priest and he lived beside his church, he was at home, so we went up to the tower bell (with bike shoes), and I use his camera (battery was almost off) to take many…

Romania, Brasov 2021. Here an adult bear male. There are more than an hundred bears in this forest. We were watching, in a protected place, a couple of them eating the food rangers provide to them each day. This male is a dominant one, so it is very aggressive with other males, who stayed faraway from him. Sometimes he stood up to sniff the air in search of other antagonistic specimens, but no one was here. Some bears in the region have attacked a village, creating panic and…

Tso Moriri lake, ladakh, India, august 2017. Near the border between India and China, in Himalaya range, I saw this wonderful and huge lake, 4500 meters high. The water was dark blue, and the sky so clean because of altitude... No airplane in the sky (the fly zone is denied by india). #tsomoriri #india #ladakh #himalaya

I want to show some images of my trekking in Sardinia, in april 2016. 'Selvaggio Blu' Trek (Wild Blue Trek) is the most difficult and challenging trekking in Italy. The area is in Orosei Gulf, along the Mediterranean Sea, and the trek is six days long. No structure along the trails, so a boat took us food and water to drink every evening, and we slept in the wood under stars and moon (in a picture I have tried long exposure - some minutes - under the full moon, and the sea…

Snowfall in Genoa, march 2005. This is a composition that I have printed for an exhibition at Levizzano castle, Emilia Romagna, Italy. The pic in the middle has been made using a 1/15 of sec as exposition time, near a strong light, so snowflakes appear like a white trace. Pictures on analogic black&white film Ilford HP5, taken with Yashica Fx-2 camera. #snowfall #genova #genoa #liguria #blackandwhite #black&white

Waiting to be hugged by 'General Winter'. Today the weather is cold and foggy. I feel the winter coming. I love snow and ice, I like to stay in front of my fireplace. #fireplace #winter #ice #frozen

I want to share the words of Mariangela Gualtieri about the first day of pandemy/lockdown in Italy, last year. Here her poem, in italian language and also translate in English (from the Italian by Anna Aresi and Sarah Moore). I have taken the image the first days of lockdown, in my town. #codid #covid19 #lockdown #blackandwhite ----- March ninth, twenty-twenty I want to tell you this we needed to stop. We knew. We all felt how our actions were too frantic. Staying inside of…

Manarola, Cinque Terre, Italy, december 2011. Here some pics of wonderful Manarola crib. It is built on the hill over the town and after the sunset, many lights illuminated all personages. #crib #presepe #cinqueterre #manarola

This composition have been exposed in an exhibition at Levizzano castle, some years ago. Two pictures (right and left) are from a wood, in winter/autumn. The central one has taken during Genoa snowfall with 1/15 exposure time near a strong light. All pictures are from analogic film HP5 taken with Yashica fx-2 and Nikon Fe2 cameras. #snowfall #wood

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Moisei monastery, Romania 2021. I have taken these pics during the day dedicated to the Mother of God, a great celebration on 15 August every year. The feeling around the church was magic and charm, I could feel the devotion of old and young people, in traditional clothes, with prayers and chorus all the day long. #romania #moisei #monastery #madonna #motherofgod

Hello to all. Two years ago I drove to work every morning, passing near this place, a small pond with an oak. When dawn could have good colors, I stopped the car, walking through the field, waiting for the right moment. I love the color of that sunrise. Usually, I don't feel very well until first sunrays hit my face, I feel the blood getting warmed, like a caress from nature. #sunrise

Jaipur, India 2020. Along a traffic road near the city center, we met this child. She was very curios of us. For some strange reason, she covered her mouth with hands, it was a pity because her smile was wonderful. #india #jaipur #smile

Holi festival in Vrindavan, Rajasthan, India 2020 Legend talks about Krishna, who was extremely jealous of his companion Radha. One day he complained to his mother Yashoda, who told him to colour Radha’s face. Krishna gleefully took the advice and coloured Radha’s face, so that they both appeared the same, giving birth to a celebration for ages. Taken with Sony Alpha7iii #holifestival #india