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.

on the water ...
Inserito originariamente da anbri22

I was walking when I saw this ...

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.

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.

... while downthere it's raining ...
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.. while downthere it's raining ...

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

[Mottarone - Italy]

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.

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.

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 ...

meeting on the shoreline
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... lives that are grazed ....

Nice - France