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Los Angeles Impact (6 Comments)

English text below.

Lasciati i paradisi di Rarotonga e le Fiji, volo negli USA, dopo 5 anni. Los Angeles mi accoglie vestito di smog. Visibilità qualche km, che succede in California?

Tutto ok. Il giorno dopo il sole torna a splendere, 24 gradi al sole che bacia le freeways e le highways. Venice beach ancora uggiosa.
Il figlio di Mine e Ted Hughes, Eren, capisce già tre lingue, Martha gli chiede “donde estan tu zapatos?” e Mine la madre chiede la stessa cosa in Turco. Nel pomeriggio, Ted ha chiesto “the shoes” e Eren è partito in quarta a prendere le sue scarpine. Magnifico!!
Si torna a Burbank, la capitale mondiale dei Media. Da qui partono tutti i formats per tv series e programmi televisivi, in 5 minuti ero davanti alla Warner Bros, in 10 davanti ei disney studios, in mezz’ora a piedi Universal city. La capitale mondiale delle immagini in movimento.

E solo in movimento si può apprezzare LA…
Si comincia dalle Freeways a più di 6 corsie, si continua spingendosi su un longboard…

Si va verso Hollywood…

English

Left behind the tropical paradises of Fiji and Rarotonga, I fly to the USA, five years later. L.A. welcomes me dressed in thick smog, what happens in Cali?

All is well. The day after the sun is back shining, 24°C kissing the highways and the freeways. venice beach is still misty.
Mine and Ted Hughes son, Eren, understands 3 languages already; Martha asks him “donde estan tu zapatos?” and then Mine aska the same but in Turkish. In the afternoon Ted asked Eren “the shoes” and he dashed to pick up his shoes. Magnificent!
Back to Burbank, World Media Capital. All the Tv series and Tv shows formats are invented here, in 5 minutes walk Warner Bros, in 10 Disney Studios, half an hour and it’s Universal city. World moving images capital.

And only moving you can fully appreciate L.A…
You start in the six more lanes freeways, and you keep moving on a longboard…
Toward Hollywood…

David Cartier, free spirit chasing horizons and auroras. (8 Comments)
aurora borealis by David Cartier

Alaska Direct bus ride from Fairbanks Alaska, USA, to Whitehorse Yukon, Canada, along the Alcan highway. An amazing journey, with an surprising driver.
David profile on Flickr says it all about this amazing human being:

Canadian born and partly raised… (It’s a long story) … But … floated down the Yukon River for 3 months in my younger days and got trapped in Alaska for 25 yrs. Mostly in a remote Yupik Eskimo village, 600 miles from the nearest road. Spent the last few winters travelling in SE Asia, but missed the Northern Lights and am now back in the Yukon Territory, running the only transportation link between Alaska and the Canadian Yukon.

Borders irritate me …I prefer to think of myself as “Civis Mundanus”… a citizen of this beautiful WORLD.

I love to do amateur astronomy with my 5 inch refractor, read voraciously (history, science, Latin & Greek Classics) and play with all my ancient film cameras, especially in the dark of night.
I also love scouring the mountains of Alaska, the Yukon and Northwest Territories for the fossil remnants of ancient worlds … My next Flickr project is to photograph my fossil collection, if I ever get around to it.
I really don’t care for contests, prizes, etc…. am kind of turned off by all that ….. What I love about Flickr is the marvel of being able to share my love of nature with people all around the world……. As well as to see nature through their eyes….. As the last great American President , Thomas Jefferson,once said ….” There is not so much as a blade of grass, anywhere in Nature, that does not interest me”
In doing photography, I use a variety of interesting old film cameras and , most recently, a Panasonic Lumix DMC-TZ1 digital w/ 10x Leica Zoom.
While I’m in awe of the art created by photographers using Photoshop, etc. I don’t really think of what I do as art …more like a loving chronicling of Nature, to which I like to maintain a certain fidelity. I like my images to be as true as possible to how they were experienced, especially my Northern Lights pix (all film shots), to which end i will occasionally mess with the brightness and contrast in Windows Photo Gallery, if Walmart doesn’t do a great job printing, but that’s about it.
I’m happy to share … anybody can use my images for anything they want,
My gratitude goes out to all who share my impressions of nature here….. I enjoy comments largely ’cause they take me to YOUR sites, where I am constantly amazed and inspired.

I’m Male.

Whitehorse, Yukon, Canada

His photos are amazing. He deserves full exposure, I’d love to see his pictures in a book or several ones. During the 10 h drive we stopped many times, to take pictures and film, and in beaver Creek, shortly after having picked up the only other passenger, we saw an Aurora. It wasn’t like the one in the picture above, but for me it was magic. The first Aurora I’ve ever seen. Congratulations David, keep it up, never stop chasing those wide wild horizons and those unique light shows above Yukon’s and Alaska’s wilderness.

Scatti dall’ / Snapshots from Alaska (No Comments)

Dall’attendere il bus per Whitehorse al lupo imbalsamato all’aeroposto di Anchorage (i lupi sono enormi quassù, 1.5 volte il cane più grande che si possa immaginare…), dalle armi in vendita da Fred Meyer (mega supermarket) al marciapiede riscaldato anti ghiaccio. L’Alaska è al di la di ogni immaginazione. Un posto estremo, immenso, strano. Affascinante fino all’inverosimile. Tornerò quassù, ammazza se ci torno!!!

From waiting the bus for Whitehorse to the stuffed wolf in Anchorage airport (wolves are 1.5 times the biggest dog you can imagine, they’re humongous), from weapons for sale at Fred Meyer to the heated sidewalk in Fairbanks. Alaska is extreme, immense, weird. Fascinating beyond comprehension. I will be back up here, oh yes, I WILL BE BACK!

Rarotonga bike tour / bicintorno (11 Comments)

English text later, sorry (-:D

Proprio mentre filmavo “l’impresa”, che dedico a Selvatiko insieme a questo post, alcuni si scannavano sul blog www.natgeoadventure.it . Acqua passata, ma gli squali hanno fatto delle vittime. Il tempo aggiusta tutto. Selva lo conosco, abbiamo cenato insieme, mi ha dato un sacco di consigli prima di partire, è un burbero che può dare ai nervi, come stava per succedere a me al luglio del 2006, ma poi ho scoperto che tra cadreghe e canoe, regala matite colorate ai bambini.

Un bel giro in bicicletta, ho portato l’abbronzatura da muratore a fare un pò di km intorno a “la rotonda” (-:D, inzuppandola ogni tanto nel blu della laguna che circonda tutta l’isola.

In bicicletta in paradiso appunto.

“Oramai ho perso il conto delle volte in cui, nel rito della ripresa-video, mi trovo a ripercorrere la stessa strada: treppiede aperto, telecamera su Rec, sfilata con la “cadrega” fino ad uscir dall’inquadratura, bagaglio a terra, e indietro, a recuperare tutto e pigiare stop.” da Una Cadrega in Nepal

Deenaalee or Bolshaya Gora, Alaska (6 Comments)



denalidawillow.jpg

Originally uploaded by haero

The tall one, or the great one. This is what the natives call it, Deenaalee or Denali. The picture was taken from Willow, 200 miles south of the mountain. I mean, 200 miles, 321 km!!!
It stands 5000 m tall from the surrounding ground. That’s one HUGE mountain. Majestic and big. That’s Alaska for you!

La montagna alta, o la montagna grandiosa. In questo modo lo chiamano i nativi, Deenaalee, o Denali. La foto l’ho scattata alle 10 del mattino, da Willow che dista ben 200 miglia…no dico, 200 miglia, 321 km!!!
Denali si eleva di ben 5000m dalla pianura, è la montagna più imponente del mondo. Maestosa e immensa. Alaska.

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