Hi PROXIMO here . I live in Italy, in a city in Tuscany called Pietrasanta ( in the Versilia area ), which is within a step from the seaside;just about fifty miles from Florence. I'm a designer in marble works and I'm very passioned about astronomical photography ,reading and music. I approached photography late, around when I was 25. I started directly from astro photography . I began with an old olympus OM-1, 'till when, one fine day, I came across in a Nikon FM2 SLR camera...It was love at first using! I really got good time ,in those days, with it and my telescope. My firs experiences in the astronomical photography was not so good ,and those first results really frustrated me! I spent four years under the night sky before reaching decent results. Those first experiences led me to a new approach to the photography ,technical and expressive, and led me to the knowledge ,step by step, of the "tradictional photography. Recently I turn from the analogic photography to the digital ( which I distrusted till that moment )...I have to tell you the truth..I found it very funny and this new rush led me to a new inpirations. Now ,for the astrophoto, I generally use a MEADE Schmidt Cassegrain 8" reflector telescope (F2000mm f/10 ,that I use to reduce to f/6.3),one F 800mm refractor ,and a russian made F 1000mm catadioptric that I use also as guide instrument.
Comments (24)
JillianElf
This is just an outstanding image and art!
sharky_
Interesting Art... Aloha
42n8
Love this B&W shot and reflection
oscilis
Absolutely stunning. It really pulls me in fast.
TwoPynts
Breathtaking. Seriously, this is quite beautiful in its stark symmetry. I though it was a painted wall at first -- really quite something!
thecytron
AmaZZZZZZZing reflection!
drag
Stunning b&w.
mark.spooner
Fantastic work!
Svarg
Outstanding! Great POV!
GiMi53
Intriguing abstract image... Congratulations for the selection of your image in LwitG (Last Week in the Gallery week 25-2007) !
PR0XIM0
@:GiMi53 Thank you so much,you're very kind : )
FriedaFelicia
Can't seem to figure it out and I love that. Marvelous abstract!
Saurav
This is excellent photography. Love the composition.
nikolais
exeptionally graphical!
xxancroft
Thanxx for telling us what the subject is. We wouldn't have known otherwise.
TNVWBOY
Wow, I really like this a lot. As the image loaded the top looked great on its own. With the reflection it's even better.
G_Mansco
I love abstracts and this is really outstanding! Wonderful depth ;O)
SapUS59
fantastic capture and abstract !!
Chaosphoto
a strangely inspirational shot, well done
sassydog
Looks like it's been scraped onto a canvas by an artist's asymmetric knife. Excellent work!
lucindawind
a stunning abstract !
AndreiR
can't be better!
ninaisricci
This is an absolutely beautiful piece of work! Fantastic!
jarmila
nice art of photography, excellent reflection and b&w