Morning prayer
Give me your wondering eyes
and I'll peer into the roots of things.
Give me your skilful hands
and I'll sow the seeds of your dreams.
Give me your chestful of thoughts
and I'll pour its treasures through the sky.
Give me your breath of life
and I'll spread my wings to fly.
Give me your awestruck silence
and it'll ease the agony of absence.
Give me your warm, glowing heart
and I'll be alive, at last.
Hi my friends, here it is another sunrise from Umbria, Italy - actually, same time and same place as one of my previous uploads (Then Someone drew the curtains and..., as you can easily see from the warped trunk of the oak tree near the center of the scene).
If you are thinking that it is a bit more than pretentious that an Italian is composing verses in English, you are in part right - only in part, though, since I do not assume that I have written good verses, but I felt like trying to convey the emotions that went with the adventure of processing this scene. Hope that the result is at least decent.
I have obtained this picture by blending an exposure bracketing [-1.3/0/+1.3 EV] by luminosity masks in the Gimp (EXIF data, as usual, refer to the "normal exposure" shot), then I added some final touches with Nik Color Efex Pro 4 (and a little trick of mine involving a bw version of the photo). Raw files has been processed with Darktable.
Morning prayer
Give me your wondering eyes
and I'll peer into the roots of things.
Give me your skilful hands
and I'll sow the seeds of your dreams.
Give me your chestful of thoughts
and I'll pour its treasures through the sky.
Give me your breath of life
and I'll spread my wings to fly.
Give me your awestruck silence
and it'll ease the agony of absence.
Give me your warm, glowing heart
and I'll be alive, at last.
Hi my friends, here it is another sunrise from Umbria, Italy - actually, same time and same place as one of my previous uploads (Then Someone drew the curtains and..., as you can easily see from the warped trunk of the oak tree near the center of the scene).
If you are thinking that it is a bit more than pretentious that an Italian is composing verses in English, you are in part right - only in part, though, since I do not assume that I have written good verses, but I felt like trying to convey the emotions that went with the adventure of processing this scene. Hope that the result is at least decent.
I have obtained this picture by blending an exposure bracketing [-1.3/0/+1.3 EV] by luminosity masks in the Gimp (EXIF data, as usual, refer to the "normal exposure" shot), then I added some final touches with Nik Color Efex Pro 4 (and a little trick of mine involving a bw version of the photo). Raw files has been processed with Darktable.