Merry Christmas - God Jul - Buon Natale

Neverending mountain source
Trappstegsforsen Lapland

In the borderland, between winter and spring, when the sun has start to warm 
and the light is returning to the north

At night by the sea, when the winds are hard…

A day in wintertime, waiting for the new year 2016

The landscape was hit unexpectedly by a severe storm. 
Miles of pine-and-fir forests were damaged and look at the destruction.
A generation it will take for a grown up tree.

Living by the sea, feeling the water, the wind and the warming sun 
in this magic old maritime village from the Middle Age

From my walk in the beech forest in spring time

In the cemetery Staglieno in Genoa, turned into cyanotype

On top of the Empire State Building, a magical sensation, thinking of Lewis Wikes Hine, 
the photographer who followed the work of the building in 1930-31 and being fascinated 
by reading the letter of Helen Keller (blind and deaf from early age) 
where she describes her presence on the top of the building: 
"I was pleasantly surprised to find the Empire Building so poetical.
…
As I stood there 'twixt earth and sky, I saw a romantic structure wrought by 
human brains and hands…
I heard the hammer of Thor ring when the shaft began to rise upward".

The first cold by the lake in Lapland, when the water still is warm and the landscape is preparing for winter sleep, 
in "blue print", cyanotype

Blow, blow, thou winter wind                                                Winter landscape from north to south
Thou art not so unkind
…………….

Freeze, freeze, thou bitter sky
That dost not bite so nigh
                                                                           
 William Shakespear

There is space and time for serenity and reflection

The first day of the new year 2015, peaceful and warm by the sea, 
birds up in the sky, hopeful future…

Merry Christmas  -  God Jul  -  Buon Natale

The very south point in the north where the winds are blowing.

The nature of my memory over time

I liked walking in the rain, nowadays it frightens me,
thinking of enormous tragedies