Entries by Massimo

March 3, 2007

What is this? I will post the answer later in the week, but... any idea?

The last few weeks I have been very busy, hence the lack of posts. The next couple of months it will also be quite hectic, with trips programmed for New Mexico, Los Angeles, Manchester UK, Chicago and New Zealand... Well, this should provide a lot of opportunities for new photos...

Chicago, IL (March 8, 2008)

We spent the weekend in Chicago. It was freezing cold, with a merciless wind blowing sparse flurries of March snow from the lake. Apparently this is quite normal weather over there, this time of the year. From the pier of the Adler Planetarium, looking downtown, as the clouds come and go. The ice looks like is here to stay, tough, at least for a little while more. Sometimes I wish we can change the weather the same way we switch to daylight saving time...

Umbria, Italy (Oct 28, 2007)

It was no sunset but for the gilded trees of an unusually hazy and warm Autumn. The Kanji character for Autumn is 秋, which is composed by two symbols, the first looking like a 木 (tree) while the second is 火 (fire). I stopped the car to repeat a photo of a monastery-turn-hotel I made years ago with an ancient digital point-and-shoot, and much hopeless post-processing. I didn’t know then, that a castle was lurking in the golden mist, waiting patiently for the enemies marching up in the valley, or maybe just for the winter to come.