Dietro l'obiettivo

Nostalgia

2012-01-29T15:19:00.001+01:00

Button

2012-01-22T14:01:00.005+01:00

You may turn into an archangel, a fool, or a criminal — no one will see it. But when a button is missing — everyone sees that.
Erich Maria Remarque

Drawing

2012-01-15T14:24:00.004+01:00

What is drawing? How does one learn it? It is working through an invisible iron wall that seems to stand between what one feels and what one can do.
Vincent Van Gogh

To err is human

2012-01-08T16:57:00.001+01:00

To err is human, but to really foul things up requires a computer.
Murphy's Law

A new year is blooming

2012-01-01T14:03:00.000+01:00

That this new year that is blooming become a beautiful rose.
And his thorns don't hurt too much.

Sweet Christmas

2011-12-25T13:47:00.001+01:00

I wish you a sweet Christmas :)

Christmas tree

2011-12-18T16:58:00.002+01:00

"Never worry about the size of your Christmas tree. In the eyes of children, they are all 30 feet tall."
Larry Wilde

Lomo effect

2011-12-11T20:09:00.000+01:00

Don't Think, Just Shoot!
Lomography motto
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In questa foto ho provato a simulare l'effetto Lomo, citando il motto della lomografia.
La foto originale la trovate qua.

In this photo I try to simulate the LOMO effect, quoting lomography motto.
The original photo is here.

True friends

2011-12-04T19:59:00.002+01:00

Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Past

2011-11-27T15:08:00.002+01:00

We must adapt to present, even if the past seems better.
Baltasar Graciàn

True colors

2011-11-20T13:59:00.000+01:00

Artists can color the sky red because they know it's blue. Those of us who aren't artists must color things the way they really are or people might think we're stupid.
Jules Feiffer

Neglected

2011-11-13T15:18:00.001+01:00

Don't wait to be a setting sun. It is a maxim of prudent people to abandon things before being abandoned by them.
Baltasar Gracián y Morales
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Zoom sul casotto che si intravede in questa foto.

Look

2011-11-06T20:06:00.000+01:00

To see what is in front of one's nose needs a constant struggle.
George Orwell

Waiting

2011-10-30T15:13:00.000+01:00

Wait for things to mature all by themselves, don't trouble yourself to speed up things. Make the most of life day by day, don't worry for a future that has to arrive, or might not arrive.
Ennio Flaiano

Home sweet home

2011-10-23T13:43:00.000+02:00

This is the true nature of home — it is the place of Peace; the shelter, not only from all injury, but from all terror, doubt, and division.
John Ruskin

Requirements for happiness

2011-10-16T15:34:00.001+02:00

To be stupid and selfish and to have good health are the three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, the others are useless.
Gustave Flaubert

Freedom of speech

2011-10-09T15:15:00.000+02:00

Censorship, whatever form it takes, seems to be something monstrous to me, worse than homicide; attempt on thought is a crime of lese-soul. Socrates' death still weighs heavily upon mankind.
Gustave Flaubert
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Ogni riferimento al ddl intercettazioni è puramente voluto.

Wise autumn

2011-10-02T14:53:00.001+02:00

The autumn is a wise season and of good advice.
Félix-Antoine Savard
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La realizzazione di questa foto è stata oggetto dell'ilarità di due ridenti spettatori. Sono contenta di aver regalato cinque minuti di allegria a qualcuno.

My light

2011-09-25T20:34:00.000+02:00

Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light.
Albert Schweitzer

Signs

2011-09-18T15:04:00.000+02:00

The ways of God are infinite. Road signs leave a lot to be desired.
Anonymous

Grapes

2011-09-11T14:25:00.000+02:00

The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do.

Galileo Galilei

Do you love your work?

2011-09-04T14:35:00.000+02:00

Excluding prodigious and individual moments that destiny can give us, love our work, which unfortunately is the privilege of a few, is the best approximation to the real happiness on Earth. But this is a truth that not many people know.
Primo Levi

Dreams

2011-08-28T20:26:00.002+02:00

Like the baseless fabric of this vision,
The cloud-capp'd towers, the gorgeous palaces,
The solemn temples, the great globe itself,
Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve
And, like this insubstantial pageant faded,
Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff
As dreams are made on, and our little life
Is rounded with a sleep.
The Tempest - William Shakespeare

Difficulty

2011-08-21T20:49:00.002+02:00

It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that things are difficult.
Lucio Anneo Seneca

Our destiny

2011-08-14T21:04:00.000+02:00

Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Anche quest'anno sarà un Ferragosto piovoso? Ormai sembra diventata una tradizione...

O illumining sun

2011-08-07T16:45:00.000+02:00

O Fosterer, O sole Seer, O Ordained, O illumining Sun, O Power of the Father of creatures, marshal thy rays, draw together thy light; the Lustre which is thy most blessed form of all, that in Thee I behold. The Purusha there and there, He am I.
Isa Upanishad

On my bedside table

2011-07-31T14:20:00.002+02:00

I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.
Groucho Marx

Brainy Smurf

2011-07-24T21:40:00.000+02:00

All intelligent thoughts have already been thought; what is necessary is only to try to think them again.
Johann Wolfgang Göethe

Rainy Sunday afternoon

2011-07-17T13:43:00.001+02:00

Millions long for immortality who don't know what to do on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
Susan Ertz

Burn

2011-07-10T15:45:00.001+02:00

Nobody will come close to the fire after realizing that it burns. Nobody, except those who have a valid reason for burning.
J-Ax

Believe

2011-07-03T17:43:00.001+02:00

Believe in love. Believe in magic. Hell, believe in Santa Clause. Believe in others. Believe in yourself. Believe in your dreams. If you don't, who will?
Jon Bon Jovi

Aim

2011-06-26T15:13:00.001+02:00

Not failure, but low aim, is crime.
James Russell Lowell

Music & Cats

2011-06-19T17:52:00.001+02:00

There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.
Albert Schweitzer

To the top

2011-06-12T18:01:00.001+02:00

"Stick to what you started on, and perhaps you will reach the top, or a point which you alone can tell is not the top."
Lucio Anneo Seneca

Calm lake

2011-06-05T17:16:00.001+02:00

Beauty has its own heavenly language, loftier than the voices of tongues and lips. It is a timeless language, common to all humanity, a calm lake that attracts the singing rivulets to its depth and makes them silent. Only our spirits can understand beauty, or live and grow with it. It puzzles our minds; we are unable to describe it in words; it is a sensation that our eyes cannot see, derived from both the one who observes and the one who is looked upon. Real beauty is a ray which emanates from the holy of holies of the spirit, and illuminates the body, as life comes from the depths of the earth and gives color and scent to a flower. Real beauty lies in the spiritual accord that is called love which can exist between a man and a woman.

Kahlil Gibran

Come back(?)

2011-05-29T16:48:00.003+02:00

Chiacchiere

2011-02-13T14:13:00.001+01:00

Ingredients:
- 350 gr of flour
- 3 yolks
- baking powder
- vanillin
- grappa
- 70 gr of butter
- icing sugar

Mix the flour with a touch of baking powder and vanillin, then add the yolks.
Mix the cold melted butter and a bit of grappa.
Work the dough until it becomes smooth and flat.
With a pastry wheel, cut the dough into rectangles and slit in the middle with two parallel lines.
Add Chiacchiere into the hot oil (175°), turn them, drain them and serve sprinkled with powdered sugar.

Chocolate cow

2011-01-23T14:13:00.003+01:00

Even if you feed the cow cocoa you will not get chocolate.

Stanislaw Lec

Music & Wine

2011-01-09T13:51:00.002+01:00

Music is the wine which inspires one to new generative processes, and I am Bacchus who presses out this glorious wine for mankind and makes them spiritually drunken.

Ludwig van Beethoven

Better person

2011-01-02T17:17:00.001+01:00

Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.

Benjamin Franklin

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Buon 2011 a tutti! - Happy 2011 to everybody!

Xmas 2010

2010-12-25T19:02:00.001+01:00

Merry Christmas to everybody!
Elena

Xmas air

2010-12-12T13:01:00.002+01:00

Christmas is in the air....

Hand

2010-12-05T13:43:00.002+01:00

The touch of your hand in passing, so light, so swift, that no one else suspects its loving reassurance – that touch sustains me through the hardest day.

Marion C. Garretty

Music

2010-11-28T14:58:00.002+01:00

Music is medicine for the soul.

Light dark

2010-11-21T14:01:00.003+01:00

Not always the darkness hides things, sometimes it's too much light that blinds more.
Anonymous

Photoblog Challenges - Fireworks

Together

2010-11-14T14:04:00.005+01:00

In the confusion we stay with each other, happy to be together, speaking without uttering a single word.
Walt Whitman

Vivid - Moody Monday.

Good and reason

2010-11-07T16:37:00.002+01:00

There was no good or reason in nature. But there is good and reason in us, in human beings, with whom fortune plays, and we can be stronger than nature and fate, if only for a few hours. And we can draw close to one another in times of need, understand and love one another, and live to comfort each other.

Hermann Hesse

Climbing hills

2010-10-31T15:51:00.003+01:00

After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.

Nelson Mandela

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Dietro l'obiettivo cambia faccia, dal template al layout dei post. Inoltre ho aggiunto un aforisma alle foto che prima ne erano sprovviste, tutto rigorosamente tradotto in inglese. Ho aggiunto la pagina "La raccolta degli aforismi", dove ho riportato tutte le massime e con un solo click su quella che vi interessa sarete ricondotti alla foto correlata.

Siccome fuori piove e fa freddo e quindi vi annoiate, date un'occhiata a tutto il blog!

Behind the lens change look, from template to the post's layout. I also added an aphorism to the photos that before were unprovided, all rigorously translated into English. I added the page "La raccolta degli aforismi", where I wrote out all the quotes and with an only click on the ones you are interested you can see the interrelated photo.

As it's raining and it's cold, you are bored, so look the whole blog!

Autumn - Thursday Challenge.

Work in progress

2010-09-30T17:03:00.002+02:00

Butterfly

2010-08-27T16:26:00.002+02:00

The human mind is like a butterfly that takes the color of the leaves on which it rests... you become what is contemplated.

Gustave Flaubert

Rain

2010-08-14T15:01:00.002+02:00

Some say that the rain is bad, but do not know who could turn his head high with his face covered with tears.

Jim Morrison

Delicare beauty

2010-07-04T13:32:00.002+02:00

Women love flowers very much because, even if they are more beautiful, they wither long before and so give them the sensation that their beauty is eternal.

Anonymous

Harley

2010-06-27T13:26:00.003+02:00

The engines are like women, you should know how to touch them into the most sensitive parts.

Enzo Ferrari

And with this I conclude the series of photos about the vintange car (and some motorbike) rally of 6th June. I hope that you liked them!

Wings under feet

2010-06-19T12:54:00.003+02:00

Flag 500

2010-06-14T19:06:00.002+02:00

You must pay any price for the right to hold our flag high.

Ernesto Che Guevara

In concomitanza con il debutto della nostra nazionale ai mondiali del Sudafrica pubblico questa foto. Sperando che riescano a mantenere alta la bandiera tricolore!

Ducklings 500

2010-06-10T13:12:00.002+02:00

It's sweet go mad when time and place permit it.

Horace

Daisy 500

2010-06-06T13:39:00.004+02:00

If you throw seeds to the wind, the sky will bloom.

Ivan Tresoldi

I will publish some photos about the vintage car rally. This is the first.

Pink rose

2010-05-30T17:21:00.003+02:00

Do not force yourself to have friends, is better not having any than having the regret of having chosen them rashly... But when you've found one honor him with high friendship.

Silvio Pellico

Peach rose

2010-05-25T13:33:00.004+02:00

No fire and no coal can burn as strong as a secret love, that no one knows anything.

Charles Morgan

Play

2010-05-22T14:08:00.002+02:00

We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.
George Bernard Shaw

Play - Thursday Challenge.

High

2010-05-09T13:29:00.002+02:00

There isn't height that hasn't above him something higher.

Chinese proverb

High - Moody Monday.

Tanti auguri a questo blog che martedì ha compiuto un anno!

Sleep

2010-05-02T13:41:00.003+02:00

Let the future as it deserves to sleep. If he wakes up before time, this results in a sleepy.

Franz Kafka

Sleep - Shutterday

Sleep - See It Sunday.

Qui il post di risposta da parte dell'Uomo Timorato!

Twins

2010-04-25T13:40:00.002+02:00

We should be half wise of what the cat is wise. And also half beautiful.

Frank Snepp

Little things

2010-04-18T14:37:00.004+02:00

Little things seem nothing, but they give peace, like those meadow flowers which individually seem odorless but all together perfume the air.

Georges Bernanos

Green - Thursday Challenge.

Thinking

2010-04-11T13:43:00.002+02:00

Who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.

Albert Einstein

Happy Easter

2010-04-04T18:12:00.003+02:00

I know, the photo is not the most paschal... But I want to thank and return all those who wishes me an happy Easter.

Wake up

2010-03-28T14:16:00.003+02:00

With the spring sun natur wakes up.

Spring?

2010-03-21T15:54:00.005+01:00

The spring begins today.

Maybe.

Nightlife

2010-03-14T14:22:00.002+01:00

The night pleases us because it suppresses idle details, just as our memory does.

Jorge Luis Borges

Nightlife - Photo Friday.

Women's Day

2010-03-08T13:12:00.004+01:00

Wishes to all women!

Sky

2010-02-28T14:04:00.003+01:00

We all live under the same sky, but we don't all have the same horizon.

Konrad Adenauer

"SKY" - Thursday Challenge.

Beautiful

2010-02-22T13:25:00.002+01:00

Beauty is a form of genius -- is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation. It is of the great facts of the world, like sunlight, or spring-time, or the reflection in dark waters of that silver shell we call the moon. It cannot be questioned. It has its divine right of sovereignty.

Oscar Wilde

World cat day

2010-02-17T13:17:00.002+01:00

Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a purpose.

Garrison Keillor

Loneliness

2010-02-14T13:55:00.002+01:00

Solitude is sometimes the best companion. It never asks inappropriate questions and often gives answers.

Gabriele Martufi

February's snow

2010-02-07T15:11:00.002+01:00

The snow in February fattens the granary

Snowy February, joyful summer

In February, the snow is better than the mud

The snow in February is like lard Carnival

Italian Proverbs

Italian

2010-01-31T14:51:00.004+01:00

Heaven: a place where 1)the mechanics are German; 2)the police are British; 3)the cooks are Italian; 4)the lovers are French; 5)and it's all organized by the Swiss. Hell a place where 1) the mechanics are French; 2)the police are German; 3)the cooks are British; 4)the lovers are Swiss; 5)and it's all organized by the Italians.
Anonymous

The particularity of this photo is not what, but wher I made it!

Italian - See it Sunday.

Look out

2010-01-24T16:03:00.002+01:00

Bad weather always looks worse through a window.

Tom Lehrer

Pruning

2010-01-17T14:24:00.002+01:00

Life is not accept all, but choose, prune, sacrifice. The sap of the tree rises only when the branches were pruned.

Ludovic Giraud

Peace

2010-01-10T17:40:00.002+01:00

True happiness is peace with oneself. And to have it, we must not betray our own nature.

Mario Monicelli

Epiphany

2010-01-06T14:07:00.003+01:00

Happy Epiphany to everybody!

Together we say bye bye holidays!

Happy new year

2010-01-01T14:02:00.003+01:00

Auguri di un felicissimo 2010 a tutti!

Elena

Happy Xmas

2009-12-25T14:20:00.003+01:00

Tanti auguri di un felice Natale a tutti!

Elena

Snow

2009-12-18T17:14:00.003+01:00

And so it began to snow here too.

This photo was made in January 2006. I hope that it doesn't snow as much as that time.

Musical sunset

2009-12-12T14:21:00.003+01:00

There is nothing is more musical than a sunset. He who feels what he sees will find no more beautiful example of development in all that book which, alas, musicians read but too little - the book of Nature.

Claude Debussy

Calendar

2009-12-08T14:14:00.003+01:00

The idea was given to me some time ago from Vele/Ivi. So I realized a calendar with some of my photos and some aphorism. Who wants to download, print and hang in his-her room, or watch for curiosity, click here.

What colours winter

2009-12-05T14:50:00.004+01:00

In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy.

William Blake

Read it

2009-12-01T14:38:00.006+01:00

Titolo originale: Die Frau mit den Regenhänden

Autore: Fleischhauer Wolfram

Traduttore: Cravero R.

Editore: Longanesi

Data di Pubblicazione: 2008

Pagine: 392

Prezzo: € 17,60

Today I want to suggest you a book that I read and I like it very much:
FIRST ROSE
Paris, 1867: Springtime, and the International Exhibition is about to start. A few days before the grand opening a child’s body is recovered from the Seine. When the mother is charged with murder she refutes the allegation and claims to have left her eight-month-old son at Lariboisière hospital, but the nurses deny all knowledge. At first her lawyer is convinced of her guilt, yet over time his investigation uncovers some puzzling inconsistencies. Suddenly powerful government agents start to take an interest in this seemingly straightforward case. More than a century later a young woman is working in a Paris library on the archives of a long-forgotten criminal trial. She is watched by Bruno, who yearns to make her acquaintance. He falls in love with her and little by little she opens up and tells him her story.
Paris, in March 1992. What kind of mystery surrounds the young woman, who, in a Paris library, tries to research a forgotten case from the 19th century? Bruno who is secretly watching Gaetane, longing to make her acquaintance, falls in love with her. Only with hesitation, does she allow him to participate in her story.
«A breathtaking historical thriller, a gripping mix of fact and fiction.» (Focus)

Bells

2009-11-28T14:00:00.005+01:00

True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells, get your ears checked.

Erich Segal

Bells - Shutterday.

The Post/Mail

2009-11-22T13:50:00.006+01:00

Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures-in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together.

Antoine De Saint-Exupery

The Post/Mail - Shutterday.

Formal - Casual

2009-11-19T18:56:00.004+01:00

I did not have three thousand pairs of shoes, I had one thousand and sixty.
Imelda Marcos

Formal-Casual - Two 4 Tuesday.

UFO reprise

2009-11-15T14:00:00.004+01:00

Questo

After this, here another strange sighting. But it is always the sunset...or no?

I have to ask an opinion to Enrico Ruggeri!

Playful

2009-11-11T13:28:00.006+01:00

All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it.

Samuel Butler

Playful - Moody Monday.

Generous - Selfish

2009-11-05T14:00:00.006+01:00

Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.
Oscar Wilde

Altruism is to live and let live.

Anonymous

Generous - Selfish - Two 4 Tuesday.

Keys

2009-11-01T18:53:00.004+01:00

Music is the universal language of mankind.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Keys - Macro Day.

Red leaves

2009-10-29T14:01:00.005+01:00

Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted.

John Lennon

Bewitched

2009-10-25T18:38:00.005+01:00

When I was a child I was afraid to walk across these woods because I thinking there were witches!

Bewitched - Moody Monday.

Rainbow

2009-10-22T14:08:00.005+02:00

The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.

Dolly Parton

...Is In The Details

2009-10-18T14:00:00.005+02:00

...Is In The Details - Photo Friday.

Water

2009-10-15T17:01:00.006+02:00

I discovered the secret of the sea in meditation upon the dewdrop.

Kahlil Gibran

Water - Lensday.

Water - Thursday Challenge.

Autumn

2009-10-12T15:00:00.006+02:00

Winter is an etching, spring a watercolor, summer an oil painting and autumn a mosaic of them all.

Stanley Horowitz

Autumn - Macroday.

Autumn 2009 - Photo Friday.