About myself…?hmmm…I am just an ordinary guy. And for me, light is everything…the infinite twists and shapes that it takes, constantly creating what we enjoy as the world around us. Try to imagine a world without light, as if the sun would switch off. We owe everything to light.
Inside me, now and then, though rarely, there were hours that brought the welcome shock, pulled down the walls and brought me back again from my wanderings to the living heart of the world. Sadly and yet deeply moved, I set myself to recall the last of these experiences. It was at a concert of lovely old music. After two or three notes of the piano the door was opened of a sudden to the other world. I sped through heaven and saw God at work. I suffered holy pains. I dropped all my defences and was afraid of nothing in the world. I accepted all things and to all things I gave up my heart. It did not last very long, a quarter of an hour perhaps; but it returned to me in a dream at night, and since, through all the barren days, I caught a glimpse of it now and then. What happens to me in my rare hours of joy, what for me is bliss and life and ecstasy and exaltation, the world in general seeks at most in imagination; in life it finds it absurd. And in fact, if the world is right, if this music of the cafes, these mass enjoyments and these Americanised men who are pleased with so little are right, then I am wrong, I am crazy. I am in truth the Steppenwolf that I often call myself; that beast astray who finds neither home nor joy nor nourishment in a world that is strange and incomprehensible to me.
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Prima fotografie am făcut-o prin clasa a cincea, într-o excursie pe cetatea Devei, cu Smena bunicului , pe schema 1/125 secunde si f/5.6, cum ma instruise el. Adolescenţa mi-am petrecut-o în compania unui alt “tovarăş”, Zenit TTL, pe care-l “furam” de la o fosta iubita. Nu mi-am propus niciodată să fiu fotograf, nici acum nu știu dacă voi ajunge vreodată acolo, dar mi s-a întâmplat să simt, în timp, satisfacția de a fi reușit uneori să transmit emoție, cu o imagine sau alta. Viața oferă astfel de bonusuri, în nemărginita ei generozitate. În ultimii ani, nu m-am mai despărțit de cutia neagră și nici de sacul cu obiective. Le port după mine pe dealuri și prin sate, le duc peste mări și țări și adun, de peste tot, clipe. Bucuria de a primi semne că ai fost capabil să împărtășești din bucuriile pe care le-ai trăit este fără margini. Cel mai important dintre toate cîte am reuşit să învăţ până acum este că viaţa poate fi, dacă deschizi ochii, extraordinar de frumoasă.
Hi Dan. You’ve go a fantastic blog and amazing photos. You really know how to handle light. Am just curious as to what language you write. Looks a bit like latin, but not quite it. Romanian?
Hi, Andrea. Yes, indeed romanian, although most of the posts are english, for a wider understanding. Instead, your blog mane is italian, and also your name seems italian. E vero, oppure mi sbaglio?
Thank you for the visit, I’ll be expecting you again soon.
You bet I’m going to be back soon. Just followed your blog! I love travel reportage as you can see.. And yes, I’m Italian, but have lived in Norway for 8 years now..
What beautiful photos! Thanks for stopping by and liking one of mine
Well, you are doing a great job. Keep it up!Thank you for the visit, I’ll be expecting you again.
Hi Dan. You’ve go a fantastic blog and amazing photos. You really know how to handle light. Am just curious as to what language you write. Looks a bit like latin, but not quite it. Romanian?
Hi, Andrea. Yes, indeed romanian, although most of the posts are english, for a wider understanding. Instead, your blog mane is italian, and also your name seems italian. E vero, oppure mi sbaglio?
Thank you for the visit, I’ll be expecting you again soon.
You bet I’m going to be back soon. Just followed your blog! I love travel reportage as you can see.. And yes, I’m Italian, but have lived in Norway for 8 years now..