Summer feelings
Summertime is over. Beach days and new places to visit are already part of my past. Still I keep some feelings and memories of the recent days of vacation. Here they are, through my images Related
Summertime is over. Beach days and new places to visit are already part of my past. Still I keep some feelings and memories of the recent days of vacation. Here they are, through my images Related
Solotvyno is just a Ukrainian village, on the banks of the river Tisza, right at the border with Romania. Perfect location to investigate plain Western Ukrainian lifestyle, I thought, and that’s why I visited it. The village is on the
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It was a nice start of the week! I was barely awake, still thinking of how to get ready for the week, when my RSS feeder showed me this: https://photofocus.com/2017/01/22/photographer-of-the-day-giuseppe-maria-galasso/#comment-263514 together with a beautiful review of my image by Susan Kanfer:
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I decided to follow Julieanne Kost’s advice and started to create slideshows of my best pictures for every year. My first attempt regards 2014, when I started again photographing regularly after some years mostly spent watching our newborn daughter growing
The country that once was called “Yugoslavia” disappeared from the maps at the end of last century and after a cruel war. Outside the former Yugoslavian area, nothing of it remains on maps, just a trace on the history texts.
Located in Northeastern Italy, Palmanova is a unique town. A great example of a Renaissance planned town meant to be used as a living are but also as a fortress and stronghold. Palmanova has the shape of a star. Right
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Marzamemi is a beautiful ancient tuna fishing village in Sicily, not far from Siracusa. It was built during the Arab domination of Sicily. The name itself “Marzamemi” has an Arab root. “Marsa” in Arab means “harbor”. Also the tuna fishery
The island knows no other human voices, no other footprints. On the Offshore Lights you can live any story you want to tell yourself, and no one will say you’re wrong: not the seagulls, not the prisms, not the wind.
Finally,. after hundreds of kilometers of steppe, you’ll get to a barren, uninhabited tuff rock: it sounds like an introduction to hell and yet it’s just the prologue to the wonders of Cappadocia, a mix of geological and human uniqueness
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Nested among high peaks and green valleys in Northern Romania, near the Ukrainian border, lies the tiny village of Săpânța . It’s an ordinary village, close to the river, with the main road passing through. Like every ordinary village, also Săpânța
Continue readingThe fascinating wonders of the European Spoon River