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 (40)
natalieb
That's a beauty! Very nice shot!
Garlor
A grand flying creature , well caught
danob
A VERY BEAUTIFUL MACRO!
tizjezzme
this has got to be one of the most beautiful photo's I've seen in a long long time. xx
GiMi53
Fantastic image of this blue eyes butty !
Congratulations for the selection of your image in LwitG (Last Week in the Gallery – week 37-2007 ) 
dorothylee
Magnificent capture of this gorgeous butterfly. The perfectly soft background really makes this beauty pop off the page!
zoren
a beauty!!
gradient
wonderful capture of a colorful butty! Congrats on being in the Last week in the gallery
Georges_H_Hoens
I think I gonna go in Italy for a while just because we don't have such beautiful butties here in our grey belgium (I'm joking because there is many other reason to visit your great country. Fab shot Proximo!
mbz2662
Wow! Terrific capture. It looks like a stained glass butterfly. Congratulations on LWITG.