This photo shows a sunset on the Adriatic sea, it was taken from a running train heading Trieste (in the North-East of Italy), and I love its hue homogeneity.

For publishing this picture I have before downloaded it from my digicamera, I have rotated the frame and I have cropped it. Nothing else graphics correction was applied to this photo.
And I love that too

To realize this picture I pointed a jet of water through a thin layer of Sun light.

The result is a fusion of drops of light and motion. The focal lenght is of 6 mm.

How can I comment on this picture? I can only say that I love the light that (I don’t know how) I’ve successfully captured, especially on the water, and the smallness of the two principal subjects: the angler and the lighthouse.

If you want to know some technical notes: an exposure timing of 1/1600 seconds, ISO 50, an aperture of f/8.3, focal lenght of 17 mm. Image was obtained at 9 o’clock along the northern Adriatic coast (not so far from Venice).

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 I went to University, and there I realized this picture. What is this?

[my girlfriend told me it seems an M.C. Escher’s design, e.g. Sky & Water]

In front of Minerva’s statue there is a fountain that, obviously, is filled by water. Such water are moved by wind (a cold wind, believe me), and this motion creates little waves on the water surface. Then this picture is realized shooting with flash about 1 meter above the water level. Interaction between light, water waves and the fountain bottom create this uncommon effect.

Some technical details: an exposure of 1/100 seconds, ISO-200, a focal lenght of 17 mm and f/4,9.

Why to shoot with flash when the subject is far away?

Tonight, in a rainy day, I shot a picture of the Altare della Patria (Altar of the Fatherland) also known as Monument to Milite Ignoto (Unknown Soldier), placed in the centre of Rome.

The only usefulness to make a photo with flash is to give more emphasis to the raindrops. In fact, the light of flash is reflected back to the camera lens and you can see the raindrops as points (for the farther ones) or as long wakes (for the closer ones). The exposure is of 1/60 seconds.

In computer graphics elaboration, I regulate contrast, the horizontal line and I add a little magenta dominance to give a more lyric appearance to this picture.

Have you ever seen a whole drops family? There are the fat father, the mother followed by the little sons. Note the reflection of the tap on the drops surfaces.

[update: this photo had participated at Photo Friday in 03-25-05 ‘Tiny’ challenge as link n.549]
[update: this photo is participating at Photo Friday in 03-25-05 ‘Imperfection’ challenge as link n.550]

This picture was taken with an exposure of 1/1000 sec, a focal lenght of 17 mm (Macro), F/8,3, white balance tungsten (I was in a bathroom with a simple light bulb of about 3000 K).

Physically the picture show the motion of a group of water drops into a space-time deformed because of earth presence. Their trajectory is a geodesic.