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Gateway of Awe

Night Photography on the Alps

 

Night view from the summit of Mount Rocciamelone (3.538 m) toward the Punta Lunella (2.772 m), a mountain in the Graian Alps (Italy) whose summit here emerges from an infinite bank of thick clouds.

We can therefore approximate the altitude of the cloudscape around 2.600 meters, or so...

which means about nine hundred meters below me.

More in the distance are visible the lights of Turin (one of the largest cities in northern Italy) that lit up from beneath the mass of clouds.

Then the universe, with planet Jupiter clearly visible on the left.

 

One of those visions I would say out of this world.

I could not even conceive photography if released from the search of the amazing simplicity that lies in the infinite.

Where planet Earth and all our momentary certainties must give way to the immensity of the unknown universe. The bridge to the absolute, the gateway of awe.

 

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Uploaded on January 27, 2016
Taken on October 17, 2012