Snowy Castelluccio hills, Italy Photograph - Limited Edition of 20

I am a landscape and fine-art photographer: I specialize in capturing the natural beauty of the world, to create a relationship between the viewer and the landscape itself. I see landscape photography as a wonderful adventure, both challenging and fascinating. My goal is to help people fall in love with the places I visit, sharing my passion and my vision for photography. I highlight the wilderness that dominates without any restraint from man. I love nature for the sense of freedom and inner peace it gives me. And this provokes in me the need to stop it in a frame and try to instill in people who look at my images a sense of respect and protection for the nature that surrounds us. My art tries to represent the beauty of natural monuments and my main intent is to preserve that image and preserve it for future generations. For me, photography is not only an art, but also a way to express my love for the environment. What I try to communicate with my shots is the emotionality of nature, its deepest essence. The photographer who most influenced my artistic vision is undoubtedly Ansel Adams. His photographs and books, especially on landscape, are always sources of inspiration. He influenced my way of looking at the scene in front of me and pre-visualizing the final image before shooting. He also totally changed the way I print in darkroom, and consequently the way I process digital images, with a longer and more accurate process, but with much better results. Another photographer who inspired my way of seeing the landscape, in this case in color, is Franco Fontana with his landscapes of sharp lines and strong color contrasts and his solitary trees. This led me, for a certain period of time, to go on a spasmodic search for trees, not always loners, on hills with shapes that were sometimes sinuous, sometimes sharply cut, from light pastel color contrasts to more vivid and strong ones.