Monviso

An old photo, taken with an Olympus C3000Z, my first digital camera, which I stopped using once I got my Nikon D100. It was one of the first 3Mpix cameras, relatively bulky respect todays point and shoot cameras, but more than enough for my first experiments with digital. Now I have given it to my sister, so that she can take pictures of my nieces in Italy and post them on the web from us in the US.

The photo was taken from the highway connecting Torino (northern Italy, the city where I was born) to the village where my sister lives (the same as this photo). It was a beautiful sunset and we just stopped the car at a gas station and shot this from there. The triangular mountain at the center is called “Monviso” which one can loosely translate as “Mount Face”. It is one of the higher of the southern branch of the italian Alps.