Images & Words - 239 - Sugar And Spice

Images & Words - Sugar & Spice

(Au Marché Provençal)

[Photo taken with my Nikon D5100 in France - Nov 2013]

And do not miss a bit of spice in your life

Creative Challenge 280

Creative Challenge - Flowing

πάντα ρει (everything flows)

[Photo taken on Aug 2013]

Flowing - from air to water
Diving - from dream to love

Creative Challenge 275

Creative Challenge - Rare

(The man in letters)

[Photo taken on Nov 2013]

I filled up myself
Of casual letters
To sort a rare word
L O V E

Pillow of dreams

Send me your pillow

The one that you dream on

Memories feed dreams...

Images & Words - 234 - Trick Or Treat

Images & Words - Trick or Treat

(Trick or treat, the bitter and the sweet)

[Photo taken with my Samsung S3 - Milan, Oct 2013]

The night is still
And the frost it bites my face
I wear my silence like a mask
And murmur like a ghost...
[Siouxsie and the Banshees]

Picture Perfect ~ Black and White

Picture Perfect: B&W Theme

(L'austero monastero)

[Photo taken in Veneto with my Nikon D5100 - Aug 2013]

The Black Friar is walking
In the cloister of the
XII century

Creative Challenge 271

Creative Challenge - Perception

(Manhattan perceived from the road)

[Photo taken on Mar 2013]

Love is space and time
Measured by the heart

[Marcel Proust perception of Love]

Picture Perfect ~ Vivid Memories of Summer

Picture Perfect: Summer by the river

(Les gorges du Verdon)

[Photo taken France with my Nikon D5100 - Aug 2013]

Acheron - the river of woe
Cocytus - the river of lamentation
Phlegethon - the river of fire
Lethe - the river of forgetfulness
Styx - the river of hate

But Dante forgot to mention
Verdon - the green river of wonder

Creative Challenge 270

Creative Challenge - Steps

(I stepped into a new dream)

[Photo taken on Jan 2013]

Two steps
And I will enter
The gate

Creative Challenge 269

Creative Challenge - Neglected

(Back To The Old House)

[Photo taken on Aug 2013]

This is the house
Where my grandparents lived
I spent many summers
Of my childhood there

Memories: Time doesn't do its duty
And sometimes makes things worse

Creative Challenge 268

Creative Challenge - Summer

(Love Street)

[Photo taken on July 2013]

That night I touched the warm stones
Of the buildings along via dell'Amore
Still soaked by the hot sun of the day

Summer always gives new nuance of scents

Picture Perfect ~ That Spontaneous Moment

Picture Perfect: That Spontaneous Moment

(Restaurant with surprises)

[Photo taken near Pavia with my Canon PowerShot A720 IS - Nov 2012]

An alternative way to taste an ice cream!

Creative Challenge 260

Creative Challenge - Under The Roofs

(To be above to know what's under)

[Photo taken on Aug 2012]

I'm walking along crooked and narrow streets
And I feel the warmth of the sun above me
Everything is silent and quiet
I'm under the
ROOFS
of the city

Picture Perfect ~ Summertime

Picture Perfect: Summertime

(Lilac is the color of love)

[Photo taken in Provence with my Nikon D5100 - Jul 2013]

Summer in Provence (France) means scent of lavender

Images & Words - 216 - Having Summer or Winter Fun

Images & Words - Having Summer Fun

(Vento d'estate, io vado al mare, voi che fate?)

[Photo taken with my Nikon D5100 - Liguria, May 2013]

I let to run away my love
I met her again after a few hours
She returned without a word
She changed like the wind can change
Summer wind, I go to the sea
And you? What do you do?
Don't wait for me, I might get lost
[Max Gazzè]

Picture Perfect ~ "Dramatic" Theme

Picture Perfect: A Drama (somehow)

(Lomography style)

[Photo taken in Genova with my Samsung SIII - Jun 2013]

I had fun playing with this shot to make it dramatic (a bit at least)...

Mandarin Orange Monday 45

Trieste In Piazza

(A Windy Morning)

[Photo taken with my Nikon D5100 - May 2013]

Posted for Mandarin Orange Monday

NatureFootstep Abstract 26

Abstract Music

(Rainy Dream)

[Photo taken with my Nikon D5100, May 2013]

Picture Perfect ~ Song Titles

Picture Perfect: Song Title

(Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody)

[Photo taken in Bohemia with my Nikon D5100 - Aug 2012]

Is this the real life?
Is this just fantasy?
Caught in a landslide
No escape from reality
Open your eyes
Look up to the skies and see...

(I always loved this song incipit)

Creative Challenge 252

Creative Challenge - In The Beginning

(Your stairway lies on the whispering wind)

  [Photo taken in Florence, Mar 2010]

In the beginning the light was dazzling and sharp
Little by little it became warm and silent
To soothe my soul

Images & Words - 211 - Junk

Images & Words - Junk

(I hope it doesn't rain)

[Photo taken using an Olympus uThough 3000 - Alsace, Apr 2013]

"For iron you are and to rust you will return"
or did He say something about... dust?

Picture Perfect ~ Vanishing Point

Picture Perfect: Vanishing Point

(From a Multiply post I did on Sep 29th, 2010)

[Photo taken in Rome with my Canon Powershot A720 IS - Sep 2010]

Last Saturday I had a long walk along this street.

I walked until the point that vanishes in a kiss,

Where the wind stops and the distance is meaningless.

Do you love me like you use to?

Creative Challenge 250

Creative Challenge - 9 May 2009

(Walking on the street that feeds your heart)

 

  [Photo taken in Rome, May 2009]

Along the Appia Antica road
Around the 4th mile
There is the grave of Hilarus Fuscus
It is 2,000 years old
An ancient monument to celebrate death
That witnessed the birth

Of a new Love

Picture Perfect ~ Beauty is...

Picture Perfect: Beauty Is A Kiss

(Cupid And Psyche by Antonio Canova)

[Photo taken in Paris with my Canon Powershot A720 IS - Jul 2011]

So, close your eyes
And think of someone
You physically admire
And let me kiss you
[Moz]

Creative Challenge 249

Creative Challenge - Pout

(What is this tingling sensation all over me?)

  [Photo taken on Aug 2012 in Budapest]

I pout because I cannot run
I pout because I cannot talk
I pout because I cannot kiss
You

Images & Words - 208 - Summer and Winter vacations

Images & Words - Summer Vacations

(By land and... by sea)

[Photo taken using a Nikon D5100 - Budapest, Aug 2012]

Picture Perfect ~ Monochrome Landscapes

Picture Perfect: A Monochrome Landscape

(Reiner Kriester Iron Hand)

[Photo taken in Liguria with my Nikon D5100 - Apr 2013]

I'm
Slipping below the water line
I'm
Slipping below the water line
Reach for my hand
And, and the race is won
Reject my hand
And the damage is done
[Moz]

Creative Challenge 248

Creative Challenge - The Color Of Highways

(Take Me Out Tonight)

  [Photo taken on Apr 2013 in Suisse]

...driving in my car...

I'm turning my head to the right
But she's not sitting beside me

I feel that the colors of the highways are fading away in the gallery

Creative Challenge 246

Creative Challenge - Have You Ever Notice

(Como Lake is a woman)

  [Photo taken on Feb 2013]

There is a clear path in front of us
Though our eyes can't see it
But our heart is going on 
Because love is blind

Have you ever
notice
?

Creative Challenge 245

Creative Challenge - Pause

(The Head with a History)

Yesterday I pushed the pause button
And for a while I switched my head
With a three thousands old one instead
To catch the dream I came from

I joked with my son taking this shot in the Museum of Stele Statues. The Stele Statues are enigmatic stone sculptures dated between 4 and 1 thousand BC and represent the most important collection of sculptures from prehistoric Europe. This small but impressive museum is hosted in the Pontremoli Castle (North Tuscany).

Creative Challenge 244

Creative Challenge - Attention To Detail

(Italy Love Tour)

[Photos and video made in 2010]

To visit the places
That your love touched
And to breathe the love scent
She left there

An attention to detail of beauty

Images & Words - 203 - School Subjects

Images & Words - School Subjects

(Physics revisited)

[Photo taken using a HP Palm Pre - Milan, Jul 2012]

In physics, the kinetic energy of an object is the energy which it possesses due to its motion.

In cars, the kinetic energy of an object is the energy which it crashes into the car ahead.

Picture Perfect ~ Two

Picture Perfect: Two

(The hungry bird)

[Photo taken in Liguria with my Olympus uTough 3000 - Sep 2011]

Charity is twice blessed:
it blesses the one who gives and the one who receives.

Creative Challenge 243

Creative Challenge - Let's Take A Walk

(A morning walk)

This morning I wake up early

And I call you "Don't sleep too"

Let's have a walk hand in hand

Slowly along these narrow lanes

Images & Words - 202 - Landscapes in color

Images & Words - Landscape in Color

(Winter has colors)

[Photo taken using a Nikon D5100 - Anghiari, Jan 2013]

Picture Perfect ~ Opened or Closed

Picture Perfect: Opened or Closed

(I put a fence around the sky)

Open sky closed by buildings [photo taken in Prague- Aug 2012]

The world stands out on either side
No wider than the heart is wide;
Above the world is stretched the sky,
No higher than the soul is high.
[Edna St. Vincent Millay]

Images and Words #201 ~ Stairs ~

Images & Words: Stairs

(The Convent)

Photo taken near Bolzano, Italy [Mar 2013]

Picture Perfect ~ ColourSplash!

Picture Perfect: Flower Girl

Photo taken in Milan - Jul 2012

I will be the gladdest thing
Under the sun!
I will touch a hundred flowers
And not pick one.
[Edna St. Vincent Millay]

Picture Perfect ~ Six ~ Winter Wonderland

Picture Perfect #6: Winter is White

Photo taken somewhere over the Alps - Jan 2011

Just over there the white of the snow is merging with the white of the moon.

Picture Perfect ~ Five ~ Under Construction

Picture Perfect #5: Under Construction

Photo taken in Bologna- Sep 2012

Bologna had many towers in the past (as many Italian cities in the Middle Age)  but today there are only the two shown in this pictures.

The right one - named Torre degli Asinelli - is under re-construction.
It is 97 meters high and it is leaning on a side though not as much as the celebrated Pisa Tower.

Images & Words #196 - Statues

Images & Words with a Statue

(A walk with James Joyce)

Photo taken in Trieste, Aug 2008

It was in Trieste, in 1915, that James Joyce began to write Ulysses,

the 24-hour epic of Leopold Bloom.

Picture Perfect ~ Four ~ Nostalgic

Picture Perfect #4: Nostalgic

Photo taken in Arezzo - Jan 2013

Pappa col pomodoro (tomato soup) was a poor dish meant to use old bread, now you can find it in many nice and trendy restaurants as the dish of Tuscan tradition.

A nostalgic wish to have such meals like 50 years ago. Nostalgia with taste!

Picture Perfect ~ Three ~ Creature

Picture Perfect #3: Creature

Photo taken in Stresa - Jul 2009

White peacocks in Bella Island (Maggiore Lake), North Italy.

The beautiful garden maybe makes the peacock jealous, so he wants to show off his beauty too.

Picture Perfect ~ Two ~ Highs and Lows

Picture Perfect #2: Up in the sky

Photo taken in Selva di Cadore - Aug 2011

The Gusela peak seen from Giau Pass (7,336 ft).
This is one of the beautiful scenery you can find on the Dolomites mountains.

Images And Words Week 193 ~ Old Buildings

Images & Words - Old Buildings

(Laudare Benedicere Praedicare)

The Chiaravalle Abbey is 7 centuries old and it is located in south Milan.

I took this picture during the wedding ceremony of my cousin (and the baptism of his daughter at the same time) in Sep 2011.

Creative Challenge | Ambience

Creative Challenge #233 - Ambiance

(The Museum)

Photo taken in Menton [Nov 2012]

Wandering

from a shape to an idea

Looking at an idea that became a shape

Through a soft step between lines

With a sentence that

opens my heart

The ambiance

to create

another

dream

Picture Perfect ~ One ~ Archi-Texture

Picture Perfect #1: Archi-Texture

Photo taken in Berlin - Aug 2012

The U-Bahn station in Kurfürstendamm with a modern Coliseum and an Obelisk. This reminds me Rome somehow...

Just in case Multiply will really close ;-)

Creative Challenge #232 - Nature

(De Rerum Natura)

I sit in front of the sea.

To look at the identical diversity of the waves,

How much madness they bring,

How much sweetness they give.

They are like human nature.

Photo taken in a Florence's shop [Jul 2012]