As long as I remember, I always had a blue toothbrush.

This morning, as I went to brush my teeth, our toothbrushes were standing in an interesting setup that just eneded up into a creative photo opportunity.

This is the result. ;-)

"While walking around I see an ad from a company that produces cameras, that says: - Do not think,  shoot - I think this is the worst thing you can say.   I say instead: think for two hours and then, in case, shoot"

Gianni Berengo Gardin

While out walking with my dog, I saw a bunch of these dried inflorescences and couldn't resist photographing them with my camera.

Although not perfect, my message behind this shot is to find beauty in imperfection, my personal wabi-sabi point of view.

Wabi-sabi is a way of seeing the world according to the Japanese culture that finds beauty and harmony in what is simple, imperfect and mysterious.
As you can see...beauty and imperfection go together wonderfully! You can find small hidden gems around every corner!

"Art is in the eye of the beholder"

Photo or art?
This is a question with a long history and many had written lots of opinions in this regard.

To me, art is solely in the eye of the observer.
 It is his way of seeing things, his culture and his experiences that lead to the perception that derives from the work of art and his emotions.

If it is art for you, even if for the rest of the world is not, it's art! :-)

This story takes place in a flat plain. Leading actors are the earth and that thin horizon line; in the middle stand that big Giants with their long electric wires crossing the sky, which seem to pass all their energy back on earth.

They pass their signal, they seem to weave the web like a spider, and they wait for something which never comes.

In the end they go out of the frame and from our vision, leaving us only...imagination.

© Copyright John Stanmeyer

"Signal" by John Stanmeyer is the photo that, some days ago, won the World Press Photo of the Year 2013, the most important prize for photojournalism.

The image, which is part of the story "The longest journey" released in December 2013 on National Geographic, was taken in Djibouti and depicts some African migrants raising their cell phones looking for a signal from neighboring Somalia, in order to talk with relatives abroad.

I really like this image, mainly because of its apparent simplicity, but also for the strength coming from the title, giving the image a great evocative power. One of the many cases in which image and words together give us a high-level work of art.