After several unsuccessful attempts over the last three years, I finally managed to find lighting that, in my opinion, does justice to the extraordinary beauty of this landscape.
All the weather forecasts predicted skies full of fluffy clouds until sunset, but I found myself spending the afternoon under a gloomy sky covered in almost storm-like clouds, with sporadic bursts of rain.
Without much hope, I decided to wait until sunset, when a beam of sunlight filtered through the clouds, gifting me an enchanted atmosphere.
The exact same thing happened to me a few months ago, in winter, when I decided to shoot a panorama (…see the post “Forecasts”).


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Here’s the perfect example of the ‘ordinary little square shots’ I was talking about in the previous post.
A lot of effort and hard work in the field to find some compositional order within the chaos of the forest (far more cluttered than it appears here)… only to end up with a pleasing shot that is, all things considered, rather ordinary.



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Definitely not satisfied with the ‘ordinary little square shots’ that are easily obtainable in the woods using a medium telephoto lens, I tried to ‘dare’ a more elaborate and personal approach, which cost me several leg cramps because of the awkward position I had to assume in order to frame and take the shot.
This image was created using the focus stacking technique (4 shots), allowing me to keep both the flowers in the extreme foreground and the trees in the background in sharp focus.



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I spent three days in the beautiful beech and oak forests of the Wienerwald, near Vienna, during the peak of the wild garlic bloom.
Unfortunately, the weather gave me extremely harsh light and an almost complete absence of clouds to diffuse it, so I ended up shooting only when the sun was low, just before sunset.
By the end of each day, my clothes were so saturated with the scent of the blossoms that I felt like some kind of walking garlic bread.



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After a week spent checking various weather forecast apps, last Sunday was supposed to be the perfect afternoon to return to the location from the previous post, with temperatures above freezing and a “veiled” sky that would surely have gifted me an epic sunset. Upon arriving on site, full of hope, the sun was instead quickly obscured by dense, dark, compact clouds that completely covered the sky for the entire afternoon and through sunset.
I remained up there, being battered by the wind at altitude until the very last moment, when the sun, having slipped beneath the clouds on the horizon, kissed the peaks with a few faint warm rays for just a few seconds before leaving the entire landscape to the cold blue light, a prelude to the night.

P.S. This is not a poorly handled HDR: the sky was genuinely gloomy, and the last fleeting rays of the sun illuminated the peaks, allowing them to ‘emerge’.


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While virtually flying over the Po River delta with Google Earth, I spotted a wooded patch that caught my attention.
Intrigued, I decided to take a walk and explore the area, and I discovered a beautiful back-dune forest of stone pines and maritime pines, often draped in ivy, accessible through a tangled network of paths that allows you to get—quite literally—lost inside it.


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I believe this photo perfectly captures the idea of the ‘forest of dancing trees’, as the Speulderbos is nicknamed.
And not only because of the shapes of the trees, but also for the way the sunlight dances with them.


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It was early in the morning: the still immature light of the rising sun and the cloud cover could make the atmosphere in the forest seem ‘dull’.
But what the camera ‘sees’ is different from what the human eye perceives, and in those lighting conditions all the colors and details of a splendid undergrowth emerged.


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The harsh sunlight, which burns colors and exaggerates contrasts, is the “great enemy” of photography in the woods.
For this reason, diffused light from clouds, which is softer and more friendly, is generally needed.
But when the sun sinks toward the horizon and its rays filter through the canopies, very interesting situations can arise.


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I had long dreamed of visiting the Speulderbos forest in the Netherlands in autumn, when the foliage sets the woods ablaze with color.
Known as “the forest of dancing trees”, I expected to find a lovely beech forest, with a few graceful trunks and some interesting views, but nothing more.
To my surprise, I found myself instead in an enchanted woodland, where every glance stirs a sense of wonder and fills both eyes and soul with quiet joy.


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