Tuesday, November 01, 2005

Trekking in the Vintgar Canyon


Trekking in the Vintgar Canyon
Originally uploaded by anbri22.
Slovenija 2005

Vintgar Gorge

The River Radovna cut a 1.6 km gorge, called Vintgar, between Hom and Boršt. The Vintgar gorge is surrounded by steep slopes, densely forested with beech and embellished by the waterfalls, pools and rapids of the river.
Although the gorge is very close to Gorje and only 4 km northwest of Bled, it has been long unknown to the people.

It was discovered by accident in 1891 by Jakob Žumer, the then mayor of Gorje and by Benedikt Lergetporer, a map maker and photographer from Bled at a time when the water level of the Radovna was very low.
On their journey through the previously impassable gorge they were so stunned by the beauty and the mystery of nature that they decided to make it permanently accessible to visitors. Construction was extremely hazardous due to the wild nature of the gorge. The official opening of the Vintgar gorge took place on August 26 1893.
Echoes of the swiftly flowing water fill the narrow gorge, which nowadays may be enjoyed by walking one of the paths, the numerous bridges and the Žumer galleries. Every visitor who walks to the end of the gorge is rewarded by the sight of the 16 m high Šum waterfall. The Vintgar gorge has been included in the list of most important Slovenian sights and attracts more and more visitors each year.


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Saturday, October 15, 2005

Certosa di Pavia


Certosa di Pavia
Originally uploaded by anbri22.
(D70 Nikkor 24mm 2,8)
detail - better in Large Size
Closer to Pavia than to Milan - along a canal connecting the two towns - the building of this charterhouse began in 1386 by order of duke Gian Galeazzo Visconti. It was intended to be both a Carthusian monastery and a sepulchral church for the Viscontis.

Uploaded by anbri22 on 14 Oct '05, 9.44pm CET.

Thursday, October 13, 2005


Autumn's Dream
Inserito originariamente da anbri22
I was waliking along Radovna river in Vintgar Gorge when suddenly Autumn appears to me. This is an Autumn's dreams because what I saw is not the same landscape there was but a vision I have had for some seconds.


The leaves are falling, falling as if from far up,
as if orchards were dying high in space.
Each leaf falls as if it were motioning "no."

And tonight the heavy earth is falling
away from all other stars in the loneliness.

We're all falling. This hand here is falling.
And look at the other one. It's in them all.

And yet there is Someone, whose hands
infinitely calm, holding up all this falling.

[Rainer Maria Rilke]

Monday, October 03, 2005

wonderful drops ....


wonderful drops ....
Originally uploaded by anbri22.



Last night I had a strange dream.
I was in a fantastic place and there was an incredible light.
All around was beauty and light.
I was walking through flowers and trees in a fantastic landscape.

Suddenly I was in a place like a park ... in that place there were gardeners bathing the grass. The water created a great reflection of light all around ...
The drops flew against the sky before falling back intact on the grass where they remained there shining.
I removed my shoes and started dancing on the bathed grass. I walked all around with my naked feet and I felt so well.

When I was so happy someone asked me why I walked arond without shoes and in that moment I remembered of my shoes ... a strange state of anxiety took me about my shoes ... I went on my walks searching for my shoes. It seems that was wrong dancing without shoes....

Then I waked up and I thought :
“you could be even happy dancing on naked feet if
none tells you that you haven’t the shoes”

Don't pay attention to the voices that say to you that something lacks you ... you will be less happy!

Saturday, October 01, 2005

raindrops flying in the gallery by anbri22
raindrops flying in the gallery, a photo by anbri22 on Flickr.

A Dream


Last night I had a dream.
I went to my mother's home and I went into the kitchen ...
the great and luminous kitchen of the house where I grew ...

My dad died four years ago ... I know so well ...
In the dream, also I knew my dad was dead ...

The daylight was coming in from the large and great window ...
I went into the kitchen and ... My dad was there!
He was watching out from the great window ...
I saw his shoulders and the green garden outside.

Suddenly he turned to me and he was smiling.
I exclaimed "Dad" ! .... but he put his finger on his mouth
as if to say "Don't talk"

He kept in his hands a tape-recorder ... an old black tape of the seventies.
( I knew that tape, really belonged to my father)

Then he turned on and has started a music ... a song that I knew.
It was an instrumental theme of relaxing music ... but I didn't know the title ...
Suddenly my dream ends.
My father was there, in the light of the window listening to that music watching to me
and smiling ...

This morning I took my iPod searching for that music ...
Now I know what is the song, now I know why my dad came to me in the dream!
My dad is an angel ... my personal angel!

I can see him with my mind ... now he is sitting here with me in my car and he is smiling with me!

The tape last night was playing "Angel Wings"


Text by Anna Briatico ©2003

Thursday, August 25, 2005


a fresh air breath
Inserito originariamente da anbri22
.... I hear my grandmother's voice when he said "oh my mountains" and look beyond the bottom profile of the mountains before me, that's his little country is right on the opposite side of the mountain. The little red church bell tower that gave me the name is there ... beyond these mountains ... I'm excited and happy to be here among these mountains where my grandmother left her heart, to follow a man who didn't spoke her language.

Monday, August 22, 2005


on the water ...
Inserito originariamente da anbri22
I was walking when I saw this ...

Friday, July 01, 2005


at the begin of the journey ...
Originally uploaded by anbri22.
I have travelled for mile searching for something without knowing what.
A photographic trip chasing the beauty whenever it's hidding.
The valley's vastness, the perfectprofile of the mountains and the incredibly infinity sky ... new horizons opening ... new open spaces to discover ...
The noise of the silence take me by surprise.
I'm listening the silence ... the silence is amazing me .... the silence is coming inside of me and little by little ...everything is wonder and silence ...
I have left behind sounds of reveille in the morning, traffic's echoes by now so far,
the fear to never get on time.
I have left behind the anxiety .... unbelievably the knot that sometimes grips me tightly is vanished ...
I'm quite sure ...in this vastness the time doesn't exis!
My eyes aren't my eyes anymore ... I'm an astonished child watching the colors ...
I'm not myself anymore ... I'm feeling so light ... I'm simply a being without body ...
I'm in flight .... I'm breaking away from me ... I'm coming out from my heavy side ...
there aren't thoughts, there aren't time-tables to observe ... there is nothing and anybody.
There is only me light as the air .... there are only my new eyes ...
eyes feed on all this beauty and my soul once more amazed from all this wonder ...
myself plunged in all this color ... I feel the desire to be astonished from the nature's sight.

Suddenly my gaze rest on that horizon line ... the unexpected thought surprise me ... that cloud in the sky ... I'm freezing the moment ... CLICK !
Uploaded by anbri22 on 30 Jun '05, 11.13pm CET.

Saturday, May 07, 2005

Isola Bella


Isola Bella
Originally uploaded by anbri22.
Lake Maggiore - Italy

Island Bella
First built in 1632, the palace and the gardens of Isola Bella are the most important attraction of Lake Maggore. The numerous richly furbished rooms can be admired when you visit the Borromeo Palace. In the gardens, 37 meters high with 10 terraces, you can find trees and bushes from all over the world, which in the spring, are covered with flowers.

Uploaded by anbri22 on 6 May '05, 11.50pm CET.

Friday, May 06, 2005

.. while downthere it's raining ...

I stay here watching the landscape ...sometimes the wind carries raindrops on my face ...

[Mottarone - Italy]

Saturday, March 19, 2005

Villa Della Porta Bozzolo


Villa Della Porta Bozzolo
Originally uploaded by anbri22.
The villa

Built in the 1500s as a country villa, it later became a representative noble residence and was embellished, in the first half of the XVIII century, with an imposing Italian garden, one of the most majestic and harmonious landscape creations today surviving in Italy. The interiors preserve one of the most sophisticated and unitary decorative cycles of the Lombard 1700s, essentially attributable to Varese workshop of Magatti. The body of the villa is flanked by interesting farm buildings, including cattle sheds, stables, cellars, hay lofts and a monumental wine press.

Uploaded by anbri22 on 19 Mar '05, 3.09pm CET.

Monday, February 28, 2005

The Hermitage


The Hermitage
Originally uploaded by anbri22.
Eremo of St. Caterina del Sasso
Yesterday on Lake Maggiore - Italy

Church S.Caterina del Sasso is much evocative one, it has been built up between the end of XII the century and the start of XIII the century, and widened in the centuries succeeded to you.
Founded from the merchant Alberto Besozzi after to be escaped to the shipwreck after a storm it has been constructed on the very high rocks on the lake Maggiore, whose cliff sinks in the dark of waters of the lake where it catches up the depth of 200 meters here.

You can be arrived on foot or with a boat from the lake..

Uploaded by anbri22 on 27 Feb '05, 9.04pm CET.

Friday, January 14, 2005

The light of the south


Detail
Originally uploaded by anbri22.
In January I went in the south of France for vacation and to take some shots.
My trip started from Nice -Cote d’Azur and then going around towards south
in Camarge and finally in Montpellier. Monpellier is a strange fashinating town
with a lot of modern architecture thanks to the creations of the spanish architect
Ricardo Bofill.

The shots that most I wanted to take where about nature in Camargue, but coming back home and looking to my shots I noticed that the most interesting subject was the light, that France’s South Light which so much enchanted painters, writers and artists of every age.

So I thought to do a little collection of Black and White shots for exalting this subject ...
I don’t know if I have reached a good result, but I have to admit that .... I have had a lot of fun taking these shots ...




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Wednesday, January 05, 2005


meeting on the shoreline
Inserito originariamente da anbri22
... lives that are grazed ....

Nice - France