Val Gardena #3

A panoramic view of Sella Ronda, in the heart of the Dolomites. The highest peak is 3151m high and the small trees on the bottom right are at 2000m (at most). Yep, this image fails to show the grandeur of the scenery :(
This image is the result of stitching 3 shots.


Selva Gardena's cemetery. In the background, that's right, the Dolomites.

Val Gardena #2

This is Pedro Pimentel eating it (ahhh, sweet revenge).
Pedro often said that were we in La Mongie and places like this would be fully traced before 10am. It's a good thing people at Val Gardena take the "off-piste skiing forbidden" signs seriously :-)

Val Gardena #1

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Although these images were actually taken while coming back from Val Gardena, flying over the Italian/French Alps, I thought they would be suitable for this first post. More to come soon.

Azores v.4.13

After loooong weeks of waiting for the slide film to be processed... and a couple of hours fidgeting with the film scanner and photoshop, here they are, the underwater pictures:


If you can hear them, you eventually end up seeing them...
A group of (spotted?) dolphins materialize between sun rays converging in the BLUE.


A soft encounter? hardly...


Three spotted graciously swimming by.


Some mackerel (?) on the run...


... and if dolphins weren't enough, they have to keep an eye on Cory's shearwaters too.


Two bird-like-patterned common dolphins say hi.


"We're going down, want to join us?"


(and to end with, the best moment)
Head above the water, I saw this spotted dolphin coming directly at me some 30m away. Dove a couple of meters and waited for it to materialize straight ahead... it then swerved while making eye contact... and somehow I managed to capture this.