The swamps of Racconigi

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Le paludi di Racconigi, un set su Flickr.

A one-day test for the new Sigma APO 150-500mm f/5-6.3 DG OS HSM

Goodbye Steve, great man.

Bye great Man

I’ve been following Steve’s vicissitudes since 98% of the people i know didn’t even know what Apple was.

Today a cycle, a phase of my life ended. IT and the Internet are not that great frontier anymore, that something esoteric, but a sort of household appliance. Also thanks to Steve, also because of Steve.

I remember i damn wanted a Mac, but my budget allowed me to buy a Commodore 64 instead (but i’ll have loved it anyway!). I still can see that shopping windows with that 512k making a fine show of itself.

And then, suddenly, came my first Powerbook and Ipod (2003 at last!) and so on.

I already wrote about Steve’s vision of Life and today thousands of people are copying+pasting his words into their e-walls, so there’s nothing much more to say except for “Goodby Steve, great man”.

The Petrolmar web site is online

The Petrolmar – Trasporti e Servizi Marittimi Spa Company website is now oline

Home Petrolmar

The site has a public section with the Company infos and a private section with access to documents for partners. Have a look at www.petrolmar.it

Racconigi

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Racconigi, un set su Flickr.

Canon EOS 5D Mark II & Final Cut Pro X – test video

Just a quick test. Please note, the ticketing in background is the lens stabilizer, so remember to deactivate it before shooting videos with the 5D! ;-)

Wildlife and… wildlife

Nature pro photographers  told me. Capturing a wolf in december, on a mountain, with -6°c is for sure very cool.

But for training, for closer images, you better install yourself and your equipment into a protected oasis.

See the set on Flickr

Like Oasi di S. Alessio near Pavia.

TEN-T Info Day 2011

The TEN-T Info Day 2011 took place in the Borschette Conference Centre in Brussels, Belgium. The event presented the priorities for the 2011 TEN-T Multi-Annual Calls, which focus on:

  • ERTMS (European Rail Traffic Management System)
  • RIS (River Information Services)
  • MoS (Motorways of the Sea)

The Ten-T 2011 InfoDay: very crowded!

WolfCamp in the Beigua Park

May 20-22 saw me wandering trough woods and Hills and creeks and… whatever. I attended a Camp on wolves with the C.S.D.L. Centro per lo Studio e la Documentazione sul Lupo guys. Well i learned a lot about wolves and i put my 55-250mm lens to the test. Have a look at the pictures.

Along with raptors...

If you wanna know more about the Camp have a look here.
Below is a video captured with a trail camera.


Thanks to CSDL team (Giuseppe Paris), Paolo “Mezuluvu” Rossi, and the Beigua Park Staff.

Nature photography workshop

On may 7-8, 2011 i attended a very interesting nature photography Workshop in the natural park Parco Naturale Regionale del Beigua.

Among the (many) things i learned:

  • how to shoot (“for real” , shots, exposures, field depth, etc.) at flowers and insects;
  • how to get an interesting panorama with a wide angle lens (i did not like them very much, i prefer higher focal lenghts > 135 mm though);
  • my Canon EF-S 18-55 lens has interesting macro capabilities;
  • keep an eye at ticks;
  • scorpions glow in the dark (!)

Set I: Nature images

Set II: behind the scenes

Thanks to all the teachers which gave me very very much troughout these two days: Emanuele Biggi - Naturalist & Wildlife photographer (anura.it) Francesco Tomasinelli – Science Nature & Travel Photographer (isopoda.net), Roberto Malacrida – Nature photographer (robertomalacrida.com).

And of course to the Workshop deus ex machina Michele Pregliasco (digilands.it) and all the park staff which gave us many and very interesting informations about geology, flora and fauna.

Federagenti.it is now online

The new Federazione Nazionale degli Agenti Raccomandatari Marittimi e Mediatori Marittimi web portal is now online.

Thanks Pixeljuice, Marco Garrè, Antonio Marasà, for the support.