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Copyright © Paolo Prestini 2025. Tutti i diritti riservati. All rights reserved.
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Dear friends,
the day I captured this sunrise, I was at the bottom of the darkest pit I could imagine. Well, I thought so, because there was still a lot to that pit. However, my first reaction was to decide to go to the mountains, to San Marco Pass, a well-known place, thick with history. I needed a high place, its silence, its wild beauty. I needed a sunrise, and I needed the mountains.
The sunrise wasn't very generous to me. The sky was changing rapidly; it was a fleeting moment. The sky was aflame with colours for a handful of minutes, then the clouds overcame the fierce glow, and everything was over.
I have struggled a lot with this photo: I was never satisfied with the sky, with the grass, with the mountains. I suspect I wasn't satisfied with the bitter memories of that morning. Everything is well now, and this might be the reason why I'm almost ok with this shot, at last. I know at least some of its defects and limits, and I expect that you could spot some I'm not aware of, so... I'll be happy to hear constructive criticism from you. On a less photographic side, I am amazed at how much photography can become entangled with life. So I invite you to take this shot as what it is, i.e. a page of my inner diary, a tormented set of pixels that hold a piece of the map of some previously uncharted regions of my soul. I wish you all the best!
Explored on 2025/02/23 somewhere around nr. 140
I have obtained this picture by blending an exposure bracketing [-2.0/-1.0/0/+1.0/+2.0 EV] by luminosity masks in the Gimp (EXIF data, as usual, refer to the "normal exposure" shot). Along the journey - post-processing always is a journey of discovery to me - I tried the inverted RGB blue channel technique described by Boris Hajdukovic to give a slight tonal boost to some parts of the scene, desaturating a lot and retaining mostly the boost to the tones.
Raw files were processed with Darktable.
I have quite recently bought a new, computer with Ubuntu Studio natively installed (honour to the memory of my 15 years old Win 7 PC), so my workflow is totally and puristically Open Source now (I have not installed Nik Collection on Wine, not yet).
L’EX MADONNINA DEL RENZISMO FESTEGGIA I 44 ANNI
Se mi dovessero chiedere dove vorrei vivere, penso che la mia risposta non mi porterebbe lontano. Vorrei avere un posto dal quale si vede la neve in inverno, un posto fatto di cime e di nuvole, di laghi sentieri, di boschi che d'autunno si tingono dei colori d'oro e del rame. E che la notte mi lasci guardare le stelle.
Io penso che, senza andare tanto lontano, questo luogo incantato è la zona dell'Alpago, fra Veneto e Friuli, dal lago di Santa Croce alla cima del Pizzoc, sopra il Fadalto.
Qui il tempo si misura in stagioni e gli attimi in sospiri.
Buona domenica, oggi piove.
#alpago #montagne #boschi #woods #veneto #belluno #nuvole #clouds #alberi #trees #sighs #sospiri
chiesto in aula il rinvio a giudizio per Renzi e il “giglio magico”
