The Pizzomunno is a imposing limestone monolith facing the town on Vieste, on the Gargano peninsua in Italy. There few legends associated with it. If you want to learn more about them here is a link.
Unfortunately, the area is very touristic and I wanted to capture the atmosphere of "waiting for the season" next to the beauty of nature.
Technical data: Fujifilm GFX100S, Fujinon GF45-100mm F4 R LM OIS WR @45mm, f/32, 0.4 sec, ISO 100. Image taken with the camera on a tripod.
Post processing: basic changes done including decreasing highlights and white, increased clarity and structure a slightly increase of clarity.
This round’s discussion is now closed! 6 comments posted
Vinaya Mathews
Good image depicting "waiting for the season"' Posted: 07/05/2024 07:33:29
Adrian Binney
Michele - Waiting for the Season or Waiting for the Day to Start is the title for this. Yes a very touristy area and with all the touristy things in the foreground, they monopolise the image. It's a good image to support a story about man not caring about our natural wonders.
Posted: 07/19/2024 01:49:33
Stan Bormann
A very unique location that says a lot about the people and place. The route up the monolith, assuming that is what it is, says something about the people that lived here when it was cut. The chairs on the beach say something about the environment today. As I started to view sort of scrolling down I was assuming Asia somewhere, but the chairs made me think something else. I was still surprised that it was Italy, but certainly an only one place in the world spot. Capturing the chairs captured the way it is, but it tells us the story of the way it was. Posted: 07/19/2024 11:23:24
Michele Borgarelli
Vinaya, Adrian and Stan, thank you very much for looking and commenting my image. I appreciate your input and comments. It is an interesting place and it can be photographed without the beach chairs. However, my intention was to provide what Adrian and Stan suggest. We are surrounded by beautiful natural wonders but too often for profit we are not good in just admire them.
Best wishes
Michele Posted: 07/25/2024 12:54:19
Nancy Axelrod
Michele, Very good image and post-processing. Good idea to include the beach chairs. Given the negative reactions I received last month regarding my image of a Neolithic structure whose story and significance would have been unknown to most viewers, I was somewhat surprised that your image did not receive similar comments. I, for one, liked it very much for its mystery. Posted: 07/30/2024 19:29:49
Michele Borgarelli
Nancy, thank you for commenting my image and sharing your thoughts.
Regarding your comment on difference comments compared to your past image, and I think they were not questioning the historical importance of what you posted. They were referring to the image. This is a photography discussion group, and as stated in the guidelines the purpose of these groups is to discuss and provide feedback to the posted images. In particular, we should assess the image for fitting in the "travel" PSA category, and comment on quality of the image as stated in the guidelines.
