1: How long have you been involved in photography?

 

Despite being a technology fan, I was not an early starter in photography, i started less than 6years ago.

 

2: Equipment you use?

 

A Nikon D50 camera equipped with

 

Sigma 28-300

Sigma 50 f2.8 "macro"

Nikkor 70-300 f4

 

filters of various nature (less and less used), Manfrotto tripods;

without forgetting my faithful every-day companion kodak v803

 

3: Mac or PC?

 

PC

  

4: What inspires you?

 

Mostly Nature, in her diversified, sometimes extreme, manifestations, and the way in which we as people react to our ever changing world.

 

Finally technology: which is for me a real source of inspiration as the main, multiform tool to

represent reality and transform it into "art".

  

5: Preferred subject matter?

  

Nature, in her extreme manifestations

People, in their urban environment

Human artifacts, seen from a different perspective

  

6: Name one thing you haven't caught with the camera that you REALLY want to capture.

 

Aurora borealis: always astonished when I see images of those great magic lights of the north.

  

7: When in doubt about your art, who do you confide in?

 

When in doubt, publish! Then I wait for the comments of my friends on Flickr, and of course my wonderful partner!

  

8: Qualifications/training in anything? ie: Photoshop

 

I am currently engaged in a photography course.

I read a lot and now I often look at tutorials published on the web. Still, as ever, experimentation, try and fail, is my primarily guide to learning.

  

9: Plans for the future?

 

I'm now in a sort of "reflexion" period. On one side there is a number of techniques and workflows I master that could be improved. I do not like to lock myself in a given "style" though. So I'm seeking for new sources of inspirations, in terms of subjects as well as processes. Surely looking forward to some new travels and to revisit the old ones

 

On the gear side maybe a D7000, a high luminosity tele, surely new software which I expect to boost me in a new era of exploration and experimentation.

  

10: In one word, describe your photography.

 

Getting there! - i know its not one word but i am never happy with the results even when i can see it's "perfect"