On the Sunset way

[in the distance]
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Is used to say that getting older most people become selfish, maybe this is true for me ...
This evening coming home from the top of the hill where I live I have seen a magnificentl spectacle.
There were all the Alps enlightened from the last light.
The sky was pink and pale blue. The few clouds looked like painted by oil creating streaks in the sky.

The horizon was incredibly clear and in the distance I could see the planes taking off and landing in Milan Malpensa.
A short time ago I used to run home to take my camera with the anxiety to don't miss the shot ... this evening I have remained there alone enjoying the very beautiful moment ...
I have seen, you can only imagine ...


[The shot is from my archive]

Magnetic Look

Massimo Busacca during the match Ermengildo Zegna vs VF International last friday in Mendrisio.
The match ended 3-0 for the Zegna Team.
This is was the first time I have had the chance to take soccer photos. It was really an interesting esperience for me. The result weren't very good but I know I can improve.
I also have had the chance to be present last week to a conference from Mr Busacca about his experience and career and it was also really interesting for me.
I have brought home a few points to think about.
I think he is an interesting person with a magnetic look.

I will never forget

I will never forget
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My greatest happiness is to recall a happy childhood,five month summer vacations in the Caleta and the Famara beach with its eight kilometers of clean and fine sand framed by cliffs of more than four hundred meters high that reflected on the beach like in a mirror. That image has been engraved in my soul as something of extraordinary beauty that I will never forget in all of my life.

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La alegría más grande que tengo es la de recordar una infancia feliz, veraneos de cinco meses en La Caleta y en la playa de Famara, con sus ocho kilómetros de arena fina y limpia, enmarcada por unos riscos de más de cuatrocientos metros de altura que se reflejan en una playa como un espejo. Esa imágen la tengo grabada en mi alma como algo de una belleza extraordinaria que no podré borrar en mi vida.

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La mia gioia più grande è il ricordo di un infanzia felice, estati di cinque mesi a La Caleta sulla spiaggia di Famara con i suoi otto chilometri di sabbia fine e chiara, sovrastata da una scogliera alta più di quattrocento metri che si riflette sulla spiaggia come in uno specchio. Questa immagine è incisa nel mio cuore come qualcosa di una bellezza straordinaria che non potrà mai essere cancellata dalla mia vita ....

[Cesar Manrique]

Los abrazos rotos

Los abrazos rotos
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A decade ago, film-maker Pedro Almodóvar took a photograph of El Golfo beach in Lanzarote. When he got the pictures developed, he could just make out two tiny figures standing on the sand. Intrigued, he had the shot enlarged, and revealed a couple locked in a tight embrace, lost in the landscape. The Secret of El Golfo, niggled away at him for years, eventually inspiring the story that would become Broken Embraces, his latest film. Although most of the action takes place in Madrid, the scenes shot in Lanzarote are crucial to the plot and set the tone for the whole film.

Obsesion in Lanzarote

Obsesion in Lanzarote
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The first thing that strikes in Lanzarote are the roads. I love scenic roads and all the roads are scenic in this island.
The most beautiful road I have ever seen is probably LZ-67 that goes from Yaiza to the Montañas del Fuego and Tinajo passing though the Timanfaya National Park.
This road was built from the same lava material of the region, with no horizontal road markings, to keep it in harmony with the countryside.
All around an incredible landscape of magnificent desolation.
I love the road, the road carry me, the road enchants me like an obsession ...

The Blueberries place
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The blueberries place

More than 30 years ago I went in Val Devero with my family and friends and I remember clear as it has been yesterday a long walk up in the mountains and the magical path with an incredible amount of blueberries along the way.

I was less than 10 but I remeber everything and in my memories this place is the Blueberries place.
Today i came back again first time after so many years. I was with my mother and the blueberries are in the same place ... we enjoyed so much.
More than 30 years ago my mother was careful with me and my brothers running on the path .... today I was careful to my mother walking on the path ... nothing seems changed ... but so many years are passed ....

in the underworld

in the underworld
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Little people like shadows down in the cave, the sensation is great.

Cueva de Los Verdes

Cueva de Los Verdes
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One of the most beautiful places I have visited in Lanzarote is Cueva de Los Verdes.
I was without tripod so I have tried to do of my best with the D700, but the feeling with the camera wasn't perfect and the fault is mine. Inside the tube was absolutely dark and it was difficult to see the people downthere , in fact I believed there was anyone.
The camera worke with Iso auto (It's a shame I know) and the shot is 3200 iso.
Cueva de los Verdes is a lava tube located in the island of Lanzarote. The cave is a protected area of the Canary Islands. The cave was created around 3,000 years ago from a volcanic eruption in La Corona. An enormous lava stream flowed over the Malpaís de la Corona. For a long time, the lava stream flowed which left the top part to become a cave.
In about 20 spots, the cover of the cave collapsed and formed. Cueva de los Verdes is formed from parts of the volcanic soils and extends from 1 km to 6 kilometres of old lava streams. The streams are the second longest in the world.
The cave walls are colorful. Parts of the cave are deep. Parts of the caves are covered with sea water.
The cave is famous for its concert hall which can hold up to about 500 people.

Playa Quemada
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Located a few kilometres off the main road from Arrecife to Playa Blanca, it seems to have escaped the touristic developments of its coastal cousins mainly because it is so close to the luxury Puerto Calero Marina and the bustling resort of Puerto del Carmen.

The fact that it has remained undeveloped is somewhat strange in many other respects, as it has a very sheltered bay, protected from the prevailing winds and currents by the Punta Gorda.

The main thing that probably prevented the village developing along the lines of the major resort Puerto del Carmen, is the lack of a sandy beach.

In fact it is this black, rather rocky beach that gives Playa Quemada its Spanish name of The Burnt Beach.

Green!
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Just come out from the airport an incredibly hot invest me. There are 50 degrees and a warm wind coming from the Sahara. The night I can not sleep. I go out on the patio, the wind is warm, whimsical and whip the palms in the distance. A wave of strikes me smells amazing ... distinguish the aroma of thyme and rosemary from the garden which evaporates in the heat. It 'a surreal situation out here is almost impossible to feel the wind comes in gusts, continuous, persistent and around me instead of cooling an incredibly warm and dry ... Yet something keeps me here ... wrapped in this almost mystical atmosphere. They are four in the morning there are still 50 degrees humidity zero.
I found where an accommodation should not have time for lunch and dinner and just arrived on site I rented a bike for a more direct contact with places. Many of these trips I have photos but vivid and exciting memories that I carry inside.
Pedal to Arrecife just before sunset, the road runs between the airport and 0ceano. The wind carries the sand on the road and slow down at certain points to avoid falling. Black rocks, sand and white silhouettes of distant volcanoes in the golden light of evening. At my side a jet takes off for a run, speeding up my rides on an impossible challenge that makes me smile: he passes me, leaves the floor and rises in the sky but I am down here in this desolate and barren landscape .. . yet I feel ... already passion!

light and shadows

colors
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Guriete Canyon in Canary Islands

Have you ever been inside the storm?
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I was at the Pavillon on Mount Frety taking shots of animals and flower. The day was very sad with fog and clouds. Suddenly a ray of light come out form the clouds and the scene was really enchanting. I was there with the sensation that I could touch the sky with a finger. Like a curtain the cloudiness raised up to show me an enchanting moment of peace inside the storm ... my thought was about the river ... doesn't matter what happens ... the river goes ....

Simplicity is everything.

When you need vacation you need also to clear your mind from every thought.
This is an image I love so much because remember me about a beautiful vacation.
This is a morning on the Atlantic Ocean.
Every morning I used to get up and looking out the horizon was covered by clouds but the wind in a few hours dragged them away ... The first rays came out like something magic ... every morning, the sea like a painting ... this is so relaxing for me.
The certainty that wind will come dragging every worry away is my way to be positive.

Oniric Experience

Sometimes happens I have something in my mind. There was a shot I wanted to realize but I have never found the perfect conditions to realize it. The sun raising from the Maspalomas Dunes at dawn is very difficult to realize because when the sun come out form the sea is often covered by clouds. For a week I get up and went on the Dunes to realize this shot but every day when the sun came out form the clouds was too much hight from the sea to be captured in only one shot. It looked as there was something I could admire every morning but impossible to shot so I decided to try another way ... this is the result. I have done two shots, one for the sun and one for the dunes from the some point of view and then merged them. while I was doing this work in Photoshop I thought it wasn't really a shot but an image so I decided to rotate the image with the sun and put the sun on the right to give a strange surreal sensation, the title came out suddenly "Oniric Experience" is something irreal ....

Calima
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Coing up to Tejeda in a day of Calima.
Calimas are caused by dust storms that have been stirred up by high winds in the Sahara desert and are then blown over to the Canary Islands by southeasterly winds.

The very fine sand and dust particles cause the air to become difficult to see through for any distance thick and the appearance and visibility is like what you get during a thick fog. The difference being that in fog it is cool and damp but in a calima it is hot and dry.
During the time a calima is over the island, every surface will get covered in fine reddish brown dust.

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Il calima è un vento caldo, spesso opprimente, apportatore di polvere e sabbia, che soffia tra S e SE, occasionalmente anche da E, nella regione delle Isole Canarie, soprattutto nel periodo invernale.

Come lo scirocco il calima proviene da una alta pressione in Nord Africa e Sahara e viene risucchiato verso nord/nordovest prima del passaggio di una depressione a nord dell'arcipelago. La polvere giallastra che viene sollevata e trasportata da questo vento è molto fine e passa anche da porte e finestre, mentre all'esterno la visibilità si riduce quasi a zero.

The spectator

What better way to begin a new year than a jump in Barcelona? Recently I have read some books from Carlos Ruiz Zafon
like "The Shadow of the Wind" and " The Angel's Game".
In these books I have found an unknown Barcelona ... misterious ... charming .. so I decided to went there once more to breath
that atmosphere.
This shot resume everything ... people goes and I'm only a spectator.