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In Explore, November 29, 2024.

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Secrets of the Woods by Roberto Bertero

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A glimpse of the woods, a bit mysterious, thanks to the dense vegetation and the soft light of late afternoon.

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una bella giornata by joestammer

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Val di Susa by Davide Taliento

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Primo tentativo di HDR su scatto singolo (Piemonte Val di Susa)

Colle delle Finestre by andbog2.0

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Colle delle Finestre (2186 m), SP 172, Usseaux (To), Piemonte, Italia

The Secret Path by Roberto Bertero

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Mist, reddish leaves on the ground... the torpor of the woods... a prelude to autumn approaching.

Photographing in the Fog

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PIEMONTE / OULX by regisa

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"J'aime bien avec ce point de fuite qui nous conduit vers l'église." // "I am fond of it with this vanishing point leading us to the church." (Jacques CAFFIN / www.flickr.com/photos/126603373@N08/)

"Magnifique approche de cette église... Le clocher est beau avec son "bulbe" !" // "Great approach towards this church... The steeple is gorgeous with its onion dome." (FLORENCE.V / www.flickr.com/photos/flo59/)

A Fairy Dress by Roberto Bertero

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As happens every year during this time of May, the long ridge of mount Civrari (2.302 m), Italy, slowly start to get rid of the immense blanket of ice accumulated during the winter months, snow and ice slowly begins to melt... creating a multitude of streams and waterfalls of simple yet remarkable beauty.

Shot taken when the canyon was in shadow, in order to set a slightly long exposure.

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Emerald in the mountains by Closinga

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Lago Sottano (Orsiera-Rocciavrè) by Ignace Fermont

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Lago Sottano

Sacra di San Michele by Federica Gentile

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Soft Mantles of Clouds by Roberto Bertero

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Waves of clouds gently caressing the mountain tops below me.

Shot taken at sunrise from the summit of mount Rocciamelone (3,538 meters / 11,603 feet), Susa Valley, Italy.

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E436 334 Captrain | Gravere by Andrea Frigerio

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Con la porta della cabina aperta per cercare di mitigare il calore prodotto dalla frenatura elettrica, sul ripido binario di discesa del Frejus con un treno di carri vuoti per il trasporto di coils diretto a Torino Orbassano.

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The Ethereal World by Roberto Bertero

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"To get an higher vantage point"... yes, that's definitely one of the main reasons that lead me to explore the mountains.

Certainly I am not going there to conquer (what?), to test myself, to see how long it takes me to accomplish a certain path (I could not care less!)... but rather to earn this so much loved higher point of observation :-)

Most simply because, without using metaphors or other, it allows to gain a different perspective on the world.

Here you can see the Punta Lunella (2.772 m), a mountain in the Graian Alps (Italy), as seen from the summit of Mount Rocciamelone (3.538 m).

This is an early morning shot, taken when clouds, mists and many slanting rays were shrouding the mountain in mystery.

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Moments of Contemplation by Roberto Bertero

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Self-timer shot, taken at sunset from the summit of Mount Rocciamelone (3.538 m), Italy.

Here you can see the sun caught in the exact moment before its final setting, behind the mountains of the Vanoise National Park, France... it just began to assume the contours of the distant ridges. At this point, generally, we only have one more exact minute before saying good bye to our star :-)

A huge bank of clouds and high mists, fluttering all around the summit, made the landscape very ethereal, visionary, somehow constantly evolving in terms of lights and shapes... nothing is more fascinating of what we can barely glimpse.

This side of the Rocciamelone is exposed to the west, certainly the most austere and impracticable face, with 3.000 meters of ridges rushing down, till to the plain.

Nevertheless this spot was pretty safe, as I still had a rocky prominence under me. Safety and knowledge of the ground are paramount in the mountains.

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Waiting... by Roberto Bertero

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Night Photography on the Alps

Self-timer shot taken on June 28th 2012, at 4:19 a.m. from the summit of Mount Rocciamelone (3.538 m), Italy.

As the seaman observes from the cliffs the waves of the ocean, the mountain man admires the immense sea of clouds shrouding the world below... waiting for the sun rising in the east.

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Above the Darkness of the Night by Roberto Bertero

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"If I have the gift of prophecy and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith so that I can move mountains but do not have love, I am nothing"

(Letter to Corinthians)

Also in photographic terms, I can avail myself of the best cameras and lenses on the market, I can read what famous authors say about how to tell a visual story but without the love for adventure, I am nothing.

Shot taken on June 27th 2012 at 10:42 p.m. from the summit of Mount Rocciamelone (3.538 m), Italy, as the moon (phase 57%) continued its slow journey to the west.

After moonset I took a bunch of interesting photos to the starry sky (then published in various magazines).

I've always postponed the consideration of this photo because I thought the scenery was a bit "chaotic"... anyway, all in all I think it expresses quite well what it means to be above a sea of clouds at night.

On the right we have the moon, while on the left is perfectly visible the Scorpius constellation.

Under the "primordial ocean" of clouds are filtering the lights of the Susa valley 3.000 meters below.

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436 360 Captrain/SNCF | Salbertrand (IT) by Andrea Frigerio

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La ricerca di spunti fotografici ancora interessanti sulla linea del Frejus, dopo lo scatto all'ETR 400 sul viadotto di Gravere (flic.kr/p/2jdUEWm), ci spinge nel tardo pomeriggio ad una sosta all'ingresso della stazione di Salbertrand, dove fotografiamo una tripletta di locomotive E436/BB 36000 SNCF in uso a Captrain Italia, in risalita da Torino Orbassano verso lo scalo francese di Modane Forneaux.

The search for still interesting photographic ideas on the Frejus line, after shooting at the ETR 400 on the Gravere viaduct (flic.kr/p/2jdUEWm), pushes us in the late afternoon to a stop at the entrance to the station of Salbertrand, where we photograph a triplet of E436/BB 36000 SNCF locomotives in use by Captrain Italy, ascending from Torino Orbassano towards the French freight yard of Modane Forneaux.

Embrace of Fire by Roberto Bertero

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This is one hell of a sunset I've had the pleasure to witness on September 27th 2012, from the summit of Mount Rocciamelone (3.538 m), Italy.

All the afternoon was rather gloomy, but, as you can see, the sunset was anything but dull! :-)) A massive array of high clouds - perfectly aligned as I had never seen - was crossing the sky until the Écrins National Park.

In due time I'll post other shots, also to show the progressive formation of this impressive bank of clouds... this is just out of the camera and I've thought to show it.

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Lenticular clouds over Stratocumulus by Roberto Bertero

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Shot taken during an ascent on mount Rocciamelone (3.538 m), Italy.

The summit area, now about thirty minutes above me, had become black... then I started to question myself about the effective usefulness in continuing to hike, knowing that I would have spent the night inside a dark bank of clouds... This typically reduces definitely your options to see something interesting :-))

So I've decided to stay overnight somehow halfway, around 2.900 meters, where at least there was visibility!

This proved to be the right choice indeed, especially because at sunset I've got the priceless opportunity to enjoy this immense show!

If you wish to get a rough idea about the overall sense of scale, note that the cone-shaped mountain, below slightly on the left, is 3.131 meters high.

Also, just for those who don't know yet, please note that lenticular clouds do not have this streaked shape due to a long exposure photo, here the exposure lasted only 1/8sec, this unique shape is just the natural prerogative of this kind of clouds, formed by the high winds of the troposphere.

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Moonrise by Roberto Bertero

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I have in my hard drives a few shots taken over the years depicting the rising of the moon, admired from high altitudes.

Unfortunately, these moments usually herald almost starless nights... however I still remember these evenings as precious visual spectacles full of infinite grace and beauty.

The moon has a charm all its own, and the natural color gradients all around are usually very picturesque and charming, especially when the rising of the moon almost matches with the time of sunset.

This picture was taken on September 14th 2011, from the summit of mount Rocciamelone (3,538 meters / 11,603 feet), Susa Valley, Italy.

Already shrouded in total darkness, in the Viù Valley down below, you can see the lake Malciaussia (1,783 metres).

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Sacra di San Michele by Federica Gentile

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Monviso, Moon and Venus by Roberto Bertero

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In a totally minimalist atmosphere, this picture is showing a very simple, yet beautiful, alignment between the Cottian Alps, with the well known pyramid-like shape of Monviso (3,841 m - 12,602 ft) on the bottom left, the Moon (21%) above, and planet Venus in the center right of the image.

Shot taken during the end of the blue hour, while hiking down the south side of mount Rocca Sella (Italy.)

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Subtle Colors of Silence by Roberto Bertero

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A delicate mantle of clouds begins to stretch above the Susa Valley... the lights of distant cities gradually come alive while the day goes by... the evening preludes to the mysteries of the night now imminent.

A silence of soft colors accompanies this shot taken on June 27th 2011 from the summit of Mount Rocciamelone (3,538 m), Italy.

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The Immaterial World by Roberto Bertero

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This is an intersection of slopes in the upper Susa Valley (Italy), a landscape lost in a thousand delicate veils of mist... almost like a hand trying to grasp the intangible.

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This Island Earth by Roberto Bertero

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Classical view toward east from the summit of mount Rocciamelone (3.538 m), Italy.

Shot taken at night on October 17th, 2012.

An ocean of clouds was hiding the plain and only a few peaks below were emerging, like islands.

Title inspired by the J.M. Newman sci-fi movie of 1955.

As these mountains seem islands, the Earth itself looks like an island in the black space, as well as our galaxy, and so on...

Nothing better than spending a night in solitary at high-altitude, admiring these natural spectacles.

I never get tired to see how the simple reality of our planet can be beautiful beyond any possible imagination.

It was very windy that night and the problem of wind at high altitudes is that everything flies away, photographer included... so I was forced to reduce the number of shots. However I brought home something decent.

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To the Wonder by Roberto Bertero

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This is a star trail taken from the summit of mount Rocciamelone (3,538 meters / 11,603 feet), Susa Valley, Italy, during the night of June 27th, 2011.

I've pointed my camera in direction south in order to include at center image the bright band of the Milky Way aligned with the Monviso north face.

Underneath is visible the usual bank of clouds (a very common element in this area) and the lights of the Susa Valley, 3.000 meters below.

Contrary to what is often done, I've used a 70mm lens for this shot (not a wide angle).

Usually I do not like star trails because they are very bright, featuring overly pronounced paths of the stars, etc... here I've tried to leave intact the magical atmosphere of the night, without missing of course the consequences of Earth's rotation that the camera was able to capture.

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How do we get to those blue mountains? by Roberto Bertero

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I do remember to have chosen for this picture a beautiful area in Val di Susa (Italy), at 2400 meters. I was really looking for uncontaminated nature, in order to take some pictures of flowers with mystic backdrop of snowy mountains on the horizon.

That was the original idea.

After more than two hours hiking on the mountain I was finally all set with my chosen composition, exactly when this lovely butterfly decided to fly here and there in proximity of my lens and the subject I had chosen.

That was the moment to get a photo! so... I did.

The title for this photo, "How do we get to those blue mountains?", is a slight variation of a sentence, a question, from the movie "The Thin Red Line" by Terrence Malick (one of my favourite movie directors).

I belive there is something sacred in the secret that always implies a question.

Being alpinist myself I can easily relate with this title because it is a reminder of the human limitations. We can reach certain summits only flying, like this butterfly, with the imagination.

We are so tiny and so full of longing...

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Falling up. (Torino, XI) by Marco Chi

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Magic Woods by Roberto Bertero

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One of the things I find most ironic of photography is that sometimes I climb up to 4.000 meters and I come home with pretty much anonymous pictures (after spending hours in the car and hours climbing), while other times in a simple afternoon spent outside my house (half an hour drive and a twenty minute walk) I find myself taking shots like this one. I know, we're not talking about a masterpiece :-)) but certainly this is not an anonymous shot.

So, indeed... you can never tell. Photography can be ironic as life, because the results are not necessarily in line with the efforts undertaken.

This is the path that leads to Roccasella, Susa Valley (Italy), a small mountain only 1.508 m high, portrait in an foggy afternoon with light rain.

The first reddish autumnal leaves begin to stand out.

In my opinion, a walk in the woods with fog and rain is the best I can do at low altitudes :-)

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Carpets of Clouds at Dawn by Roberto Bertero

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This is an immense sea of clouds, somehow distributed into levels of height, photographed at dawn on September 28th 2012 from the summit of Mount Rocciamelone (3,538 m), Italy.

Yes, this is not the view from an airplane, but from the top of a very high mountain, after spending the night up there.

I have seen countless times clouds from above, anyhow that morning I was struck by the geometric distribution of the elements (different types of clouds) and colors... all aesthetically brought me back to some paintings, mostly abstract.

I think it's a good way of understanding landscape photography, despite no land can be seen here :-)) given the height of the clouds and my vantage point.

Nevertheless, It's always nice to find something out of the usual cliché... and above all to have the privilege of being able to see it, with my own eyes... that's what really matters! Absolutely.

Then if a photograph can be taken, oh well, why not!

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Saint Michael's Abbey by Roberto Bertero

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Sacra di San Michele

Darkness Falls... (Revised) (Torino, X) by Marco Chi

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I find it very interesting how tiny changes in the image detail and perspective change the perception.

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Autumn by Roberto Bertero

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Toward Infinite Spaces by Roberto Bertero

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Self-timer shot taken at sunset on the beautiful, very long, crest of mount Civrari (2.302 m), Susa valley, Italy.

The light conditions were quite picturesque.

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Monte Viso by Roberto Bertero

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Lightning on a Sea of Clouds by Roberto Bertero

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Shot taken on August 31st 2011 from the Ca d'Asti hut (2.854 m), mount Rocciamelone SSW crest, Italy, overlooking a huge sea of clouds that during the blue hour was covering all the Susa valley below.

The lights from the city of Susa are filtering from beneath the clouds, creating a surreal atmosphere.

Far away, above the Cottian Alps mountain range, you can see the lightnings of a storm... even higher, in the blue sky, the Scorpius constellation.

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Woods Hypnosis by Roberto Bertero

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This image is obtained by combining two slightly long exposures, taken in the woods on late evening, one after the other.

Obviously using a tripod.

The first exposure by moving the camera vertically, the second keeping it steady.

I have invented nothing, so nothing new under the sun :-) but I really love to explore all the possible techniques related to the concept of "abstract".

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