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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In the less marshy areas of the Cracovian forest mentioned in the previous post, some clearings open up, leaving room for an undergrowth often characterised by the presence of ferns, which in my opinion are plants of particular grace and elegance.
In this season, their immature light green colour makes them stand out from their surroundings.


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When I am in a forest, I generally feel a certain inner peace and a kind of intimate spiritual connection.
If the forest is also flooded, I can feel myself in a kind of small earthly paradise.
If, in addition, the sky is cloudy, the joy for my eyes becomes total, because my gaze can appreciate every detail of the surrounding chaos while the different greens of the foliage become so intense that they seem to pierce me with injections of vital energy.
In this state of grace, I spent hours wandering around the Cracovian swampy forest in Slovenia, sinking in water and mud up to my knee, trying as usual to find, in the absolute chaos, a hopefully decent composition that could do justice to the place.


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Here is a very classic view of the waterfall at the springs of Enna stream.
The considerable water flow prevented me from positioning myself inside the stream in order to try other shots.
The lush vegetation around the waterfall also prevented me from trying to photograph it from more original viewpoints.
However, I like the shot for its atmosphere.



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Same place, same time as the previous post, just another point of view.
I feel a great affinity and intimate connection with wetlands and flooded forests.



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Near the site of the previous post, I noticed this sequence of flowering clumps of yellow iris, surrounded by a delightful forest of oaks, alders and hornbeams.



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