Posted in Alps, Art, Clouds, Italy, Landscape, Limited Edition, Luca Baldassarre, Mountain, Nature, Park, Photo, Print on 17 June 2008 | No Comments »
Mordor
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This photograph is called Mordor, because when I was there, with the clouds closing on this high altitude pasture in the Gran Paradiso National Park, I felt I had entered the evil-crippled land of Sauron. I tried to impress this feeling by converting the [...]
Posted in Alps, Clouds, Italy, Landscape, Liguria, Luca Baldassarre, Moon, Moonscape, Mountain, Nature, Photo, Sunset, Trees, Wallpaper, Winter on 6 February 2008 | No Comments »
The whole Liguria was covered by a thick blanket of clouds. Climbing up the Ligurian Alps, towards Monesi di Triora, I finally emerged under blue sky, leaving the grey clouds below. I captured this scene upon come back, after a day snowshoeing to the summit of Monte Saccarello (m. 2200 circa), at the border between [...]
Posted in Alps, Coast, Italy, Landscape, Luca Baldassarre, Mediterranean, Mountain, Nature, Night Shot, Photo, Quarry, Sea, Tuscany on 4 December 2007 | No Comments »
High above the millenary marble quarries of Massa and Carrara (Tuscany, Italy), lies Campo Cecina, an undulating pasture perched among the steep cliffs of the Alpi Apuane. At 1300m and few kilometers from the Mediterranean, it’s possibile to enjoy a birds-eye-view of the flat coast shore of the Versilia and the Gulf of La Spezia, [...]
Posted in Alps, Art, Italy, Luca Baldassarre, Mountain, Nature, Photo, Piedmont, Snow, Textures, Wallpaper, Winter on 15 November 2007 | No Comments »
Another snow abstract, taken in the same place as the previous one, that is Bardonecchia, Italy. But that’s not important, since you can find such shapes almost everywhere there is some untouched snow modelled by the wind. I enjoy the transformations snow brings to the landscape and to the small things that surround our everyday [...]
Posted in Alps, Art, Italy, Luca Baldassarre, Nature, Photo, Piedmont, Snow, Textures, Wallpaper on 14 November 2007 | No Comments »
With the winter approaching (and in many places already arrived) I like to share this abstract snow detail with you. It was shot in the Western Alps above the Olympic-famous town of Bardonecchia, Italy. There’s a valley called Valle Stretta (narrow valley) due to the vertical cliffs and steep ancient stone avalanches that close in [...]
Posted in Alps, Appennines, Italy, Landscape, Luca Baldassarre, Mountain, Nature, Photo, Sky, Sunset, Wallpaper on 1 November 2007 | No Comments »
Another photo from the same clear-day session above Genoa. This time I zoomed-in on the spot where the sun disappeared. I enjoyed how these warm hues spread across the sky, like a colossal fire were buring behind the mountains.
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Posted in Alps, Appennines, Italy, Landscape, Liguria, Luca Baldassarre, Mediterranean, Mountain, Nature, Photo, Sea, Sky, Sunset, Trees, Wallpaper on 31 October 2007 | No Comments »
Monte Fasce dominates eastern Genoa, Liguria, Italy. Its flanks descend steeply towards the Mediterranean. On a clear day, like this, one can see the peaks of the Maritime Alps, near the border with France. The setting sun painted the sky orange and I felt suspended above land and sea.
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Posted in Alps, Daniele Parodi, Fall, Forest, Italy, Mountain, Nature, Park, Photo, Textures, Trees, Wallpaper on 12 October 2007 | 1 Comment »
These larix caught my attention while climbing the old hunting trail used by the Savoia. The Val d’Orco, in the Piedmont Alps (and part of the Gran Paradiso National Park), was ablaze with the fall tones and these tall trees seemed sturdy columns supporting a colorful and delicate vault.
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Posted in Alps, Clouds, Italy, Landscape, Luca Baldassarre, Mountain, Nature, Photo, Sunrise, Wallpaper on 12 October 2007 | No Comments »
While the sun slowly emerged from a vast blanket of clouds, preparing for a glorious Alpine morning, ethereal limbs of vapour tried to climb the slopes of the Monviso, before being dissolved by the rising heat.
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Posted in Alps, Glacier, Italy, Landscape, Luca Baldassarre, Mountain, Nature, Park, Photo, Sunrise, Wallpaper on 27 September 2007 | 1 Comment »
From the Alpe Scaredi in the Parco Nazionale della Val Grande, Northern Italy, I witnessed the Monte Rosa take its name-colour, pink, slowly from the summit down along the glaciers of the East Face, as the sun rised higher and higher.
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Posted in Alps, Italy, Landscape, Luca Baldassarre, Mountain, Nature, Photo, Sunrise, Wallpaper on 24 September 2007 | No Comments »
I was on a 3-day trek around the rocky Monviso in the Alpi Cozie, Italy. One morning, unzipping my tent I saw this immense cloud blanket, soft and creamy. I prepared my camera to capture the sun in the exact moment it emerged from his sleep.
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