Tech data: Olympus E-PL2 - Olympus Zuiko ED 14-150 mm f/4-5.6
Location: Casies Valley, South Tyrol - Italy

Although the mountain trip lasted only a weekend, my dog Jasper did not lose the opportunity to roam free on the trails, enjoy some fresh weather and...dive into the first pool of water he has found...You could read the smile in his eyes! :-)

[...] He walked in with a salty sway
Lookin' like Blackbeard in his day
A brother in arms just like me
I was born a son of the sea
I can't be still, I can't be tied
The only time I feel alive is

When the wind fills my sail
Riding on a lifelong swell
Let my heart take me where it wants to go
That's the soul of a sailor, the soul of a sailor [...]

Words and music by Kenny Chesney.
While dreaming about the sound of the sea and listening to this song,
take a look to the new photo of the month on my website. Enjoy!

Summer is definitely the season for open-air concerts, I really enjoy to attend many of them, especially because of their many photographic opportunities. This evening....hats off to the unique, inimitable, original Emilian Rocker, Ladies and Gentlemen, Mr. LITTLE TAVER, the most crazy criss-cross between Elvis, John Belushi and Little Tony, never appeared on the planet earth!

When I was little child I remember I had an illustrated book depicting the four very different seasons; on that book there was a picture for summer section that reminds me very much this photo I took few weeks ago during the harvest near my home. I think that this picture represents also very well this hot summer season. I would really like to find that book .... but, unfortunately, you are child only once...

Also this year, even if only for one night, I did not want to miss a good concert, that can ideally carry me on the banks of the Mississippi River. Of course I'm talking about Roots n' Blues Festival, good food combined with great music. Here are some shots from that night. Enjoy!

Latvian Blues Band

Roberto Luti

Latvian Blues Band

Latvian Blues Band

Close your eyes and breathe deep: here, senses and sensibilities converge in a way only Provence reveals. The fine stalks wave in the wind, blue prairies stretched as far as the eye can see.  Is this all a dream? An extravagantly beautiful dream, for sure, and so, in celebration, I invite you to walk with me along these intoxicating rows of lavender fields..."In full bloom" is the new photo pf the month on my website: for photographers and painters alike, this is a subject you can never weary of. Indeed!