Ok, it isn’t really a wolf, but it keeps all of the forefather’s nobility. It is a Siberian Husky living in Claut, a mountain village in Carnia, Friuli, Italy. It has been bred to be a sledge dog and I had photographed it during a beautiful howl.

This summer I met a nice cat in a street in the North-East of Italy. This cat:

Using the flash, light was reflected through the iris. Probably a difference of angle of refraction between two eyes creates different colors.

Leo (the latin for Lion) is the funny dog of my girlfriend. Here one can see Leo sticks tongue out.

This photos is simple to all appearance, but because of the proximity of the subject I have brought correctly into focus only Leo’s eyes. To resolve such problem, I have applied the unsharp mask to adjust contrast in the whole picture and, in addition, in a overlapping layer over the Leo’s muzzle. All this to obtain a virtual, but visible, uniformity of focusing.

This picture shows one famous mexican jumping bean that I’ve bought in a stall in front of the University last year. The original name is exactly “brincadores” . It is not really a bean, it just looks like one. And it jumps and vibrates because it contains a crysalis of a future-butterfly.

Here it is the way it works. A small moth lays its eggs on the flower of a shrub called the Sebastiana palmieri. After the egg hatches, the baby caterpillar buries itself in the plant’s developing seed pod. As the pod grows, it closes up around the comatose caterpillar, leaving it trapped inside. Eventually the caterpillar [a crysalis in this step] builds a tiny web, and by yanking on it he makes the pod (bean) jump. Its next stop could be Hong Kong or Atlantic City [or Rome…], wherever the jumping bean marketplace has a paying customer in need of a novelty.

This little circus act of nature takes place exactly twenty days after the first rain of the season, usually in June. The hotter it gets, the more they jump. This will continue for three to six months before the caterpillar mutates into a moth and, flying, finds freedom. (source MexicoFile)

In this macrophotography you can see the pod (on the left) with a hole by which the cocoon (on the right) was coming out. Moth leaves its cocoon breaking it on the bottom side.

A sparrow was hopping close to me in a railway station and when I took my camera he was going on the border of the same marble seat of me… very little was remaining to be made, only to shoot the photo!

After to having shoot the picture I made the following computer correction: contrast, curves (to add contrast in dark areas), +10 in saturation, selection (with an high feather value) of the sparrow’s muzzle with growth in luminosity, color balance increasing cyan and blue. All this to accent the sparrow’s plumage.