Mountain pillar
Thursday, November 4. 2004
Valle Pesio, Italy (Jul 1, 2004)
Missing my mountains... today is rainy and cold, here in Boston. This shot I made at the end of a very hot summer day, after hiking several hours in the sun. I usually don’t smell odours very well but just watching the photo I can feel right now the warm humid smell of the summer grass (they say that odours give the strongest memories, maybe is true even for me that I don’t smell that much). When you are hiking like this, the only thing you wish is resting in the shadow, and maybe refreshing in the cold water of a stream... well that sensation is exactly what I am missing right now...
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This is one of the most beautiful photographs I have seen in a while. I guess I am missing the mountains also. Thanks for sharing this fantastic hot.
wow.. most of your photos are so beautiful. love your work! you inspire me 
makes me realize how much i love photography. keep up the good work!
makes me realize how much i love photography. keep up the good work!
I agree. stunning image! the light on the rock looks unreal!
Thanks for the nice comments. The light in fact was quite peculiar. Due to the summer heat there was a lot of haze, which was filtering the strong sun in the background (giving the blue tint of scattered light), and creating hard shadows. I calculated the exposure to get the rock right, which of course blown a little the background. In the end some Photoshop was necessary to correct the balance between the dark and bright areas (nothing that a good printer can do in the darkroom, but much easier to do on a computer...). This is in part responsible for the unreal look of the rock.
This shot makes me question where you are in relation to the environment you’re in. Are you cold? - it is magnificent - what are you standing on? So much more than the photo before which was distant. This is personal and really good.
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