Gran Paradiso National Park – Italy, August 2013
On my last day in Italy last week, the organizers recommended me to take a bus to a nearby national park, Gran Paradiso. Spent a full day there, it’s a breathtakingly beautiful place. Here are a few B&W shots.
(Curious observation – the walking speed of a hiker with a camera is 1 km per hour. Assuming of course that said hiker is me, desperately trying to photograph everything around him. I was also using a new lens for the very first time – or rather an old, Olympus OM 50mm/1.8 lens, which gives a focal length of 100mm on my camera. It’s manual focus only, and so it took quite some time to figure out.
Curious observation No. 2 – no matter how much I tried, I didn’t manage to take a single good wide angle shot of the entire scene – which is the very thing which takes your breath away there; the nature was simply too big to fit into the lens [or the lens was too small, but I think I’d rather blame the nature 🙂 ]
These are more or less in the order in which they were taken.
Creature of the woods
Fairy glade
Bauhaus
Pale beauty
The Valnontey river
Birch
Stone assorty
Imitating A.A. (ehm, yes, I know, rather horribly immodest. I didn’t say imitating successfully, just – imitating. And this is the closest I got to capturing a bit of the scale of things out there)
Waterfall of Lillaz
The moment it falls
Untitled
That’s it, see you next time!
A Photo A Day 
Good Photos 🙂 the last is beauty … (about n ° 4 …my first thinking was ” questa è una bella e sottile farfalla” ) 😉
Thanks Brezka!
Imitating Anselm Adams?
Aye aye.
Oh, Adams is my favourite!! He wrote an autobiography – have you ever come across it? Beautiful pictures! 🙂 I would be really curious to see Nos. 2 and 8 in colour – any chance at some point?
No. 8 is quite hackneyed in color, but No. 2 is not bad – I’ll try to include it in a later post.
And yeah, nothing tops Adams.
I will be watching out then 🙂
Thx Boris, I remember Gran Paradiso – very beautiful pictures 😉
Thanks Patrick!
Apart from being a remarkable pianist, you also have an eye for capturing the real beauty of things. Congratulations, Boris, and all the best for you!
Thanks a lot, Cecilia!
Beautiful, dramatic photograpy! Breathtaking landscape!
Thanks so much!
Who’s the lady? Could have moved out of your photo.
I probably wouldn’t have taken the photo without her – she’s the photo’s subject more or less; or rather the combination of her, lit from the back, on a rock shelf, facing the waterfall, with the waterfall itself and the surrounding rock formations.
More or less 😛