Italian fairy tale

magic sunrise at Euganena Hills

Arthur Cross,   Italy, Padova

Lose your Sense

Islanda. La pioggia incessante dei giorni precedenti ha fatto si che sulla spiaggia di Stokksnes si formassero queste piccole pozze d’acqua. Inoltre trovandosi riparate dalle dunette di sabbia circostanti, queste pozze erano completamente ferme; il vento non increspava l’acqua e cosi invece di una pozza sembrava di stare davanti ad uno specchio! A contornare tutto questo scenario un piccolo arcobaleno in lontananza e un fotografo pronto ad immortalare la scena.

Marco Carotenuto,   Italy, Roma

THE MOTHER ARRIVES

A long year of studies and observations to follow this subject, many nights in white, this is the life of the true nature photographer, the shot is only the conclusion of a very long and tiring journey, when I managed to resume this moment, the satisfaction was immense, here Strix aluco as he pulls back from the hunt with the prey just caught. Carlo

Carlo Cinthi,   Italy, Milano

snowy owl

Snowy owl coming in front

Giovanni Frescura,   Italy, Pisa

Trails Of Lights And Fires On Mount Etna - Unesco World Heritage Site

Sicily - March 2017; The Volcano Etna woke for the second time in a month.; According to Greek mythology; Hephaestus was the craftsman and smith of gods.; The ancient Greeks and Sicilians believed that he had his abode and his forge under the volcano Etna and that the eruptions were the proof of his mighty work.The landscape was enlightened by the gentle light of the Moon showing the “Sciara”, the black volcanic, rocks covered by a thick layer of snow. From the top crater a lava plume adorned the sky with trails of fire in front of a curtain of gentle lights pictured by the stars rotating around Polaris.

Dario Giannobile,   Italy, Siracusa

summer monotony

Ell Costi,   Italy, Milan

Light

Lightbeams From Antelope Canyon Upper side

Claudio Marchionne,   Italy, Rome

Deep looking

Aged man portrait in foggy cold night

Filippo De Maio,   Italy, Roma

Mono Man

I like to go location hunting. When I find the perfect place, corner, wall or even shadow, I sit and silently wait for my prey, as the spider does with its web. This is how I catch the famous "decisive moment." This digital photograph was taken in Paris during 2017.

Martina Biccheri,   Italy, Rome

Уединение

Рыбацкая лодка на о. Занзибар.

Валерий Петров,   Italy, Milan

THE WAIT

Gipsy sea village-Phuket-Thailand

GIANNI BORADORI,   Italy, SESTO FIORENTINO

Road To The Milky Way

Milky Way at Pietra Parcellara, Italy

Lorenzo Bensi,   Italy, Piacenza

Sea monster

A pillar of basalt rocks stands alone against the power of the ocean. According to folklore and legends of Iceland, they are former trolls who tried to drag their boats out to sea only to be caught by the rising dawn. The sea around them is rather wild and stormy.

Andrea Celli,   Italy, Florence

Under the bridge

An ordinary day in London

Ivan Bertusi,   Italy, Borgosesia

OPEN MIND

After about 10 sec. eye contact with this little owl (eurasian pygmy owl), I felt a new feeling in me (indescribably strong)... it felt like he was reading my mind, and my eyes were just the open door! Thank you mother nature that I may immerse deeper and deeper in you !

Daniel Tschurtschenthaler,   Italy, Sexten

my soul

children sfineart portraits

Paola Massa,   Italy, genova

Nest of Stars

the place is called "Nido dei passeri" (nest of birds), so this is my interpretation with stars.

Giovanni Corona,   Italy, VILLAPERUCCIO

Puppies on the hills

Location della val d'Orcia all alba

Dario Rubeo,   Italy, Roma

The pear

Грушевое дерево,Южная - Моравия Чехия.

Vasile Gori,   Italy, Padova

A peaceful sunset in Ålesund.

This shot was taken in the Ålesund's scharming cole in front of the small port. During a trailer trip along the whole Norway, my family and I had the pleasure and luckily to see wonderful places. In this picture I try to capture the absolutely unique sunset lights. Everything was calm and peaceful and I was very lucky to have the chance to see such an incredible sky.

anuar arebi,   Italy, OZZANO DELL\'EMILIA

Portrait of the spider

Jevgenija Sepeliova,   Italy, Turin

Solitude is bliss

Rhodes beach, Greece

David Pellicola,   Italy, Bologna

sleepy owl

yawning owl clicked from outskirts of Qatar.

KANNAN RAJAN NAIR,   Italy, Salerno

Ascetic

The project stems from the idea of ​​representing a female figure with a gesture, almost a last effort, tends to reach, from the darkness of the deep sea, the surface, separator element between the air and water between dark and light, between life and death, but also a symbol of a passage to another life no longer earthly but spiritual, eternal.

Emanuele Vitale,   Italy, Siracusa

Caress

No need to explain, the gorgeous lake of Carezza during a stunning night. In this image I just tried to convey the peace and calm of that night.

Paolo Razzauti,   Italy, Sarzana

A special night.

Northern lights on Vestrahorn. (Iceland)

Stefano Ricca,   Italy, Savigliano

Pink Joy!

Holi Festival of Colours - India 2018

Alfonso,   Italy, Feletto Umberto

Scanno at night

Country in the land of Abruzzo on a winter night.

Danilo Marabini,   Italy, Potenza Picena

A Mother's Love

Donatella Nicolini,   Italy, Milano

Sheet music for men and pigeons

Just look around and each city always reveals its hidden order and its harmony. La Defence, Paris (Aug. 2018)

Fabio Quici,   Italy, Rome

Луна

Абстракция

Sergey Bykov,   Italy, Милан

Mila

Riccardo Nosvelli,   Italy, Voghera

Talk

Respect for the environment is a common place, I speak to the plant so as not to abandon it and let it know that there is someone who will take care of it.

Giuseppe Galli,   Italy, Parma

fish and light

scapeview of Rio Maggiore, small village situated in Liguria, relaxing and peaceful panorama

Andrea Stillone,   Italy, milano

Concrete jungle

Amazin view of the NY concrete jungle from the Empire State Building

Nicola Lapacciana,   Italy, Matera

Solitude

A man walks and memories of the past return to his mind, between the fog of memories and his village

Nadia Chiesi,   Italy, Modena

Old friends

Buenos Aires, 2017. Street scene.

Marco Brecciaroli,   Italy, Torino

Mystic

Self-Portrait. The shot was made entirely in the dark with light tool, using only long exposure technique.

Toscano Ilaria,   Italy, Roma

Walking to the unknown

The voyage of the human race never ends. We explored the oceans with complicated gears, but what would be in the next future? We problably will be adapted to new worlds and walk to the unknown.

Lorenzo Mittiga,   Italy, Rome

elettrify

Silvano Sil Passalacqua,   Italy, La Spezia

Christmas headache

Galia Bassani (Sekareva),   Italy, Arona

Yulia Laterza,   Italy, Perugia

The River

The dramatic atmosphere of a cloudy day in Val Canali. Crossing the river to make this shot was not easy. Even the wait to have the right light was very long,but In the end when I was about to give up the sky it opened and this glow came out. I went home all wet but I think it was worth it

Francesco Tavani,   Italy, Verona

Лестница в небо

Marina Neberekutina,   Italy, Порто Реканати

Yuliya Khamidulina,   Italy, Perugia

Into the wave

Cala Serraina (Northern Sardinia). The sun takes its leave behind a stormy sea.

Mauro Mendula,   Italy, Olbia

Mechanic

This is a photo taken in a rural district of Moldavia, 2018

Sara Aliscioni,   Italy, Monterotondo

Enchanted

Misty Sunrise at Podere Belvedere in Valdorcia Tuscany

Federico Sasson,   Italy, Prato

San Marco

Italy, Venice.

Igor Sokolovsky,   Italy, VENEZIA

hurricane

Suspended in the clouds, with the look that goes beyond any limit, you can stay silent, you can think, you can pray. It is difficult to describe the majesty of so much nature and the profound serenity inspired step by step in search of the right direction. From the hanging hill (Colle Impiso), they serve more than three hours of energetic walking for several kilometers without ever missing the few red and white bands on trunks and boulders, pointing to the road. Like in many other parts of the Apennine, these paths have in the past been mainly driven by brigands and lumberjacks ..... today, however, by those looking for emotion to be translated into a good photo. *always have pity for my translations

Paolo Paccagnella,   Italy, Villafranca Pad

Water jump

A bear is fishing in Kuril Lake, making an impressive jump in the water after a run in shallow water. Bears' fishing technique in Kuril Lake is unusual, different from the technique used in the creeks, especially when the number of salmons is limited: a bear stares the water from the beach, and when it sees a near salmon, it leaps in the deep water catching the fish directly with its mouth. This year at the beginning of August there were very few salmons in the Kuril Lake: local scientists estimated 700.000 salmons instead of a normal number of 2.5/3.0 millions. It's not clear if this was caused by a delay in the arrival of the salmons, but I think it's more likely a real decay of the total number of salmons. The only river connecting the lake to the ocean is now used for fishing 6 days a week by a company producing canned salmon, reducing the arrival of salmons. In addition, the volume of tourists is increasing every year, bringing noise with helicopters and motorboats. The result is an increasing difficult in taking fishes for the bears, a tough competition, and also more nervousness and aggressiveness of the bears (in 2018 some incidents with bears happened). Kuril Lake is a unique paradise for bears (and for wildlife photographers too), but the industrial exploitation of salmons and the human impact of tourists risk to rapidly ruin this special oasis. Russian scientists are monitoring the situation, but we know that everywhere economic interests often prevail on nature preservation...

Paolo Barbarini,   Italy, Busto Arsizio

Run away my child

Outdoor shoot

EMILIA VILA,   Italy, Brescia

MaliboK

Respublika Hrvatska, Cres

Ihor,   Italy, VENEZIA

The Whisper Of The Tree

Lisa Renner,   Italy, St. Walburg - Ulten

The force of nature

Cinclus cinclus - The dipper passes through the waterfall to reach the nest with its young to bring food

Riccardo Dalle Luche,   Italy, Massa

Let the sun illuminate the world

A winter sunset in one of the most evocative places of the Tuscany countryside, not far from Pienza, made even more famous by the film "The Gladiator" in the scene where the main character describes his "places of the heart"

Riccardo Bravi,   Italy, Ciampino

Strength of joy

Traveling through Indonesia, during the days that recall national independence, in a village on the island of Java, some men played greasy pole. The amazement, the joy and the opposing effort made by the dirty and scratched men struggling with the climb, gave me a feeling of unity and fun that I rarely found elsewhere.

Carmelo Stagnetta,   Italy, Catania

morning in venice

Evgenii Nagatkin,   Italy, Romano di Lombardia

Look up

An unusual way to see cities, don't stop looking in front of you, look up and discover something new in your usual places

Davide Faccio,   Italy, GENOVA

The world in his eyes, Namibia,2017.

Taken in a primitive Himba village in Namibia, this picture portrays a kid whose eyes reflect the “technological world” that comes close to establish a visual contact. With this photo I meant to portray a kid of rare beauty and at the same time express a sense of connection.

Marco Claudio Campi,   Italy, Milan

candore

Quattro anatre al tramonto che completano la loro sfilata in un palcoscenico naturale della foce

Cacocciola Giuseppe,   Italy, Agrigento

Stripes

This is my most recent project. In this series I wanted to create images with the same texture of the background. The idea was born starting from the thought on the relationship between the soul and the body. The soul is part of us but at the same time I feel it independent. The concept of this project is based on this solitary flight. I imagine myself and I imagine my soul. This is a pindaric thought, an imaginary path. In these images I see a woman who is detaching herself from a wall and, her material, gets rid from emptiness.

Patrizia Burra,   Italy, Grado

Sea Rough

the cliffs of Rena Majore (ita) during a storm with mistral wind, in an instant an explosion of light in the middle of the storm

Fabio Serra,   Italy, Cagliari

Baste Lake and Monte Pelmo

part of my book \"walking through Ampezzo Dolomites - MONOCROME\"

manuel cicchetti,   Italy, milano

and suddenly, the fog

Bordeaux, Place de la Bourse, the square-mirror. During the summer the square is filled with people, tourists, children, who play and run on its surface, constantly wet to reflect the beautiful scenery of the square. Suddenly, the fog. Everything is wrapped in cotton wool, and those people, who were previously \"colours in the sun\", become shadows, shadows playing, running, playing, dancing... in that artificial fog that moves them away, that isolates them, at least for a while, from the real world.

Andrea Frullini,   Italy, Rome

Colonne

Passeggiata tra le colonne

Grolla Pier Giuseppe,   Italy, Tronzano Vercellese

Tripe

In this shop, in Naples, you can buy only tripe. From 1678.

Saverio Platania,   Italy, Saronno

Pattern

Photo was taken from Pinacoteca Giovanni e Marella Agnelli art museum, Torino

Arian Yousefi Javan,   Italy, Torino

Mystic Fog

A photo taken at the first light of the day, at the locality Pienza, a small detail wrapped in fog, in the hills of the Val d'Orcia.

Daniele Brogi,   Italy, Bagno a Ripoli

a piscaria

This shot tells the everyday life in the heart of the fish market in Catania, The fishmarket, also called in dialect, \\\"A piscaria\\\", is a place where culture and tradition come together, and offer suggestive moments.

giuseppe grassia,   Italy, catania

Stateliness

The Great Gallery of the Royal Palace of Venaria Reale, Turin, one of the Savoy residences (designed starting from 1658), UNESCO World Heritage Site. Italy

Italia,   Italy, Trieste

Венецианский канал в пастельных тонах

Венецианские гондолы на канале на фоне моста в вечернее время.

Andriy Zakrevskyy,   Italy, Brescia

Angels

An angel looks at a man. Is he an angel too?

Linda Blasi,   Italy, Lainate

Take me with You

Return to your origins

Corinaldesi Roberto,   Italy, Terni

The damned yard: travel to Sodoma and Gomorra

Accra, Ghana, June 19, 2017. An inhabitant of the ghetto adjacent to the Agbogbloshie landfill, depilates a goat on a fire powered by a car tire. Later he will eviscerate it and sell it in the ghetto.

Romano Antonio Maniglia,   Italy, Taviano

After the storm

Quando la tempesta sarà finita, probabilmente non saprai neanche tu come hai fatto ad attraversarla e a uscirne vivo. Anzi, non sarai neanche sicuro se sia finita per davvero. Ma su un punto non c’è dubbio. Ed è che tu, uscito da quel vento, non sarai lo stesso che vi era entrato. (Haruki Murakami)

Alessandra Caroselli,   Italy, Malcontenta

modern slavery in brick field

The world is going through a speedy urbanization and Bangladesh is not an exception from this. Such rapid urbanization generates a massive demand for bricks as it is one of the key ingredients to build concrete structure. To meet this growing need, numbers of brick making field have been increasing at an alarming rate in Bangladesh. Most of them took place in farming lands which causes reduction of agricultural production..We know that burning coal causes tremendous emission of Carbon-Di-Oxide (CO2) gas which is primarily responsible for climate change. Brick making fields use coal as fuel to burn raw bricks. Burning coal is also foremost cause of acid rain, and toxic air pollution..Workers work here from dawn to dusk still their wage is not up to the minimum standard. Beside this the working condition is so dusty that one cannot breathe properly without mask

Hossain Iqbal,   Italy, roma

London

Ivan Bertusi,   Italy, Castel d'Aiano

State Library ff South Australia in Adelaide

In a world in which technology plays a major role, in some places people can still smell the old books and hear the paper rusting. Photo by Andrea Migliore ©, Nov 2018

Andrea Migliore,   Italy, Tirano

The grip of ice

Ice and snow on the Mont Cenis lake in the French Alps.

Marco Barone,   Italy, Castelnuovo Scrivia

Hong Kong Solo

Loneliness can develop into a life-threatening condition. "Hong Kong Solo" is the continuation of a project I started in Tokyo with "Progetto Hebi", a self-financed docu-fiction that I shot in 2014, in which I analyzed the solitude of the inhabitants of Tokyo. It can be difficult to form or sustain relationships in Hong Kong. Loneliness is a growing problem in developing cities all over the world. It is difficult for the overworked to develop quality relationships. Or as a result, they may feel isolated or disconnected from the rest of society. The choice of Hong Kong, compared to other large metropolises of the East, was dictated by a purely aesthetic reason. Not only women and men, but also the atmosphere, the buildings, the streets and the great Kowloon Bay express their loneliness simply by showing themselves to the world. "Hong Kong Solo" is therefore my personal attempt to show how the absurdity of overproduction, excess and overload can lead to extreme loneliness.

Alessandro Capuzzi,   Italy, Gallarate

Castelletto Night

the milky way over the ancient church of Castelletto, Italy.

Antonio Pedroni,   Italy, Fidenza

Befor and after

The dress says everything

Franco,   Italy, Cusercoli

Umbrella

The shot aims to represent a surreal atmosphere given the weather conditions and the contrast of the sky at that time. I tried as much as possible the simplicity and cleaning of the shot, the umbrella is the natural focal point of the scene, even if small has strength and weight to the image The man who walks becomes the protagonist and the fact that he is about to leave the scene acquires much more meaning. The figure that moves appears suspended between sky and clouds, with a surreal and poetic impact, and leaves us free to do it and fill it with meanings

Alessandro Marcello,   Italy, SAVONA

Il civetta infuocato

Bellissima vista al tramonto da Rifugio Lagazuoi sul monte Civetta.

Matteo Gobbato,   Italy, Angiari

Clarissa and her pups.

Walking in the city with the little dog.

Cesare Salvadeo,   Italy, La Spezia

Sunset in Cambodia

Riccardo Carotti,   Italy, Boschetto

Павел,   Italy, Milan

Tuscan sunrise

The rolling hills of Val d'Orcia (Tuscany) at dawn, UNESCO Heritage Site since 2004

Marco Scrofani,   Italy, Rome

First love

Summerlin,   Italy, Rome

V

View of the Cimbra Valley on Lessinia Mountain - Italy

Luca,   Italy, GUASTALLA (RE)

lunar month

The position of the Moon has been resumed every 1,481 minutes, ie 24 hours and 41 minutes. For get a classic analemma, it would have been it is necessary to wait 24 hours and 51 minutes (the rhythm of the lunar month). There is a 10 minute gap. In this way his Moon is always a little "in advance" and this justifies the wider curve: the satellite in the photograph is in fact located a little further to the left of the typical position of the analemma. The advance, which at the end it is about 4 hours between the first day (in top right) and the last (bottom left), not has effect on the lunar phase recovered, at least for this that we can perceive from the ground (enlightenment of the satellite does not vary significantly in this time frame). So, except for the first shot (the one at the top right: as explained before, the chronological progression goes from right to left), the placement of the Moon in the heavenly vault is always farther from that classic. It is therefore a choice: the composition it does not represent the synodic month but "only" the lunar curve, reproducing something that exists really but that does not have a precise definition. For a question of correctness and clarity,  I deliberately talked about "lunar curve" e not of "synodic curve" or "lunar analemma" just in reference to the longer time intervals short between shots. It will not be a classic analemma but it is nice.

Giorgia Hofer,   Italy, Vigo di Cadore

Mary Poppins

una formica in volo appesa ad un seme di tarassaco

FABIO SARTORI,   Italy, massa marittima

Books find you the way of light

Books in the Old library represent an important rule of life: books will find the way to the consciusness of life.

Gabriele Bruni,   Italy, Campli

The monk

Natallia Sikorskaya,   Italy, Санремо

She waits

From the stairwell of an Italian building.

Marco Diulgheroff,   Italy, Milan

____November Rain

MarsieloPhotoArt,   Italy, OT - Olbia-Tempio

Стремление к познанию

Anatolie Burdeniuc,   Italy, Padova

Untitled

Chicago, USA 2018

andrea torrei,   Italy, Rome

It's my job

New Delhi - India - A dalit, belonging to the caste of the "untouchables", while cleaning up a blocked manhole.

Attilio Tripodi,   Italy, Santa Maria Hoe

The City

I've taken this pic from St. Paul Cathedral during my last trip in London

Giandomenico Veneziani,   Italy, Bisceglie