From now PhotoniKBlog has an Flickr account where I’ll upload some of my favorite pictures when these are slightly too much numerous
First set of these are for the celebration at Circo Massimo (Rome) for the Italy’s win of Football World Championship 2006 in Germany, here.

My friend Giulia was traveling by train on the seat in front of me when I’ve captured this photo (exactly 8 days ago).
Her thoughts was lost not merely in the reading of a magazine, but they was running through the space while her reflection was merged in the landscape dragged by the train motion.
This picture evokes peace because of the transparency of her ethereal image, but she evokes also worrying because of the message of restlessness provided by the speed of the train.

This picture wasn’t graphically manipulated, and it keeps some blur on the window and some unaesthetic glints come from a carriage’s lamp. I’ve chose to keep this impefections to preserve the orginal atmosphere of the moment.

Last week I went to Pescara, a city by the Adriatico Sea. There was an international meeting in astrophysics but in the evening we had some spare time. So, why don’t walk on the foreshore and capture some picture?

In this vertical picture I wanted to show the beach from the micro-scale of the grains of sand in the bottom to the macro-scale of the vastness of the sky in the top, through the motion of a girl that emerges from the sea, raising the water with a leg.

I shot this photo at 6 p.m. and the light of Sun was weak, so I have only applied a levels correction to this picture.

Yesterday was been the great day for my brother Antonio and his ex-girlfriend Debora, now his wife. They have chosen a catholic rite taken place in the church of St. Anselm, near the keyhole of the Knights of Malta. In the photo one can see the moment of the rice throwing.

Some technical notes: the exposure timing is 1/200 seconds and I have increased hue and saturation which emphasize the color of the bouquet’s petals and of the grains of colored rice.

Is she trapped in a fishes’ carafe? Or we can see her through a crystal ball like a tolkienian Palantir?

As almost everybody have yet understand that it’s just a shot taken through a spyhole when my friend Silvia was coming chez moi to study Structure of Matter.

Despite the evident deformation due to a fisheye lens that creates a virtual spherical space, this kind of lenses do not distort perspective, as also Andrew says.

Are these eyes full of fear? Or do they give an inquiring look to the fogs of time? A weak light reveals the gentle shapes of a face, while the glance is more intense, thanks to the dark.

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She is my friend and she is the girl with which I have studied astronomy until yesterday. Her name is Silvia and she has taken 30/30 like me. But it wasn’t sure that we would have obtained a such good result. Then, before the exam, her eyes were full of doubts like mine.