Rialto Bridge at Golden Hour | Venice

Landscape of my dreams. This is the result of five differents expositions -2ev, -1ev, 0, +1ev, +2ev merged in hdr with photoshop

Colored Houses | Ponza Island, Italy

My artistic vision of the colourful houses in "le forna"

The Dying Town | Bagnoregio, Italy

Civita was founded by Etruscans more than 2,500 years ago. It was the birthplace of Saint Bonaventure, who died in 1274. The location of his boyhood house has long since fallen off the edge of the cliff. By the 16th century, Civita was beginning to decline, becoming eclipsed by its former suburb Bagnoregio. The town is noted for its striking position atop a plateau of friable volcanic tuff overlooking the Tiber river valley. It is in constant danger of destruction as the edges of the plateau collapse due to erosion, leaving the buildings to crumble as their underlying support falls away. As of 2004, there were plans to reinforce the plateau with steel rods to prevent further geological damage. At the end of the 17th century, the bishop and the municipal government were forced to move to Bagnoregio because of a major earthquake that accelerated the old town's decline. At that time, the area was part of the Papal States. In the 19th century, Civita's location was turning into an island and the pace of the erosion quickened as the layer of clay below the stone was reached in the area where today's bridge is situated. Bagnoregio continues as a small but prosperous town, while Civita became known in Italian as il paese che muore ("the town that is dying"). Civita has only recently been experiencing a tourist revival.

Er "Cuppolone" | Rome

My artistic view of St. Peter's dome in Rome. Shooted from via N. Piccolomini.

The Blue Hour | Orta San Giulio, Italy

No doubt: Orta Lake is one of the last paradise in this world. If you are in search of inspiration, a rapid walking in this small ecosystem can open your mind, relax your body and heal your spirit. At the centre of the lake, there is a small island called "San Giulio". According to the legend, it was dominated by a big serpent that destroyed everithing. But when St. Giulio, that had the power to command over the waves, the storm, the wild animals and the human beings, arrived near the lake, waving his hand he chased away the dangerous menacing animal. He reached the Island journeying over the water on his cloack guided by his staff. The big reptile disappeared and St. Giulio, tired and near to his death, thought that the island was the right place to build his hundredth and last church dedicated to the Holy Apostles The Island of San Giulio is today a place of great misticism. Here was born on 962 William of Volpiano, during the siege to Queen Willa by Emperor Otto, King Berengario II's wife, who had taken the Island from the Bishop of Novara. The big central building was a Castle. The island was the governor 's seat that represented the bishop. On 1842 it was destroyed to build on it a seminary. Now there is a Benedictin monastery that helps giving more mistic power to a place that is by nature immersed in the silence. I reach the location after the sunset for a blue hour shot: It was a perfect chance to test the sharpness of my new zeiss 16-35 lens! I wish to specify that there weren't any color correction on the shot, this is the really out of camera result.

San Pietro at Night

Certainly one of my best hand-held night shot ever

Pantheon's magic | Rome

A detail of the main fountain

Nero's Cave | Anzio, Italy

My view of Nero's caves, in the beach under Anzio's lighthouse

Clouds Over Riomaggiore | Liguria, Italy

Riomaggiore (Rimazùu in the local Ligurian language) is a village and comune in the province of La Spezia, situated in a small valley in the Liguria region of Italy. It's the most southern village of the five Cinque Terre, all connected by trail. The water and mountainside have been declared national parks. The village, dating from the early thirteenth century, is known for its historic character and its wine, produced by the town's vineyards. Riomaggiore is in the Riviera di Levante region and has shoreline on the Mediterranean's Gulf of Genoa, with a small beach and a wharf framed by tower houses.

The Last Guardian

Established in 1988, Tor Caldara Regional Natural Reserve covers about 44 ha. It lies on the Tyrrhenian coast, in the southern area of Rome and its territory belongs to the municipality of Anzio. Recently ranked as one of the Sites of European Importance, Tor Caldara is a real treasure with rare evidences of the ancient coastal forests that occupied the entire coastal area of the southern Lazio. At the end of the reserve, there is Tor Caldara's peculiar monument, the tower that gave it the name. It was built in the 17th century to defend the shore from upcoming armed landing. Nowdays, even if the original function came less, it stands still there, overlooking the lazio's shore with his outline.

Then, the sun goes down | Val di Cecina, Tuscany

This shot was taken directly at blue hour, in the field in front of Volterra, a wonderful city filled of history; the sun is just go beyond the horizon and the sky coloured himself with astonishing red tones, just like an outstanding painting. Three shots with 55mm at f 5.6, hand-held, merged in Panorama

A Bench Towards Infinity

Shooted during my recent trip in tuscany, in a marvelous B&B located in Val di Cecina

Volterra, The Blue Hour | Tuscany

Volterra, known to the ancient Etruscans as Velathri, to the Romans as Volaterrae, is a town and comune in the Tuscany region of Italy. I've reached the location at golden hour for a sunset shot but unexpectedly it was the following moment which proved the best: as the sun disappeared, the sky coloured himself with astonishing red tones to the delight of myself and the rest of the onlookers. This shot is a gift to my girlfriend Martina that thanks to her patience and tolerance keep supporting me in my photography's passion