The European Bee-eater is one of my favorite subject...it is one of the most beautiful and colorful birds of Italy. It breeds in Italy and other contries of southern Europe in spring and summer, and it migrates in North Africa during the full and winter. It is a relatively small bird - 20-25 centimeters from the head to the tip of the tail - and I was a bit distant...

The new essay is online: Bee-eater and TCs

My best wishes of Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all the readers of JuzaPhoto and my friends!

May the new year bring you happyness and joy :-)

The post-processing is an essential component of landscape photography. Ansel Adams carefully processed each one of his prints in the traditional darkroom to produce the best results - and the modern digital technologies should not make you sloppy ;-)
You can not expect to get perfect images right out-of-the-camera: when you have taken a good landscape...

The new essay is online: The Three Peaks

I've added new photos in the galleries: Threskiornis aethiopica (Sacred Ibis), Vanellus vanellus (Northern Lapwing), Ardea cinerea (Grey Heron), Gallinula chloropus (Moorhen), Troglodytes troglodytes (Winter Wren).

Years ago, when I decided to buy my first macro lens, I chose a Sigma 50mm Macro. It was a nice lens, it was very sharp and it reached life-size reproduction ratio (1:1). On the other hand, the results were not as good as the photos of many professional photographers where a nicely sharp subject stand out from a clean, out of focus backgroud. What was I...

The new essay is online: An unusual macro lens 

The Three Peaks of Lavaredo are some of the most famous mountains of Dolomites. In the first weeks of october, I led two workshops in that area: from Misurina, we reached the Locatelli hut. The hut is already closed in october, but there is an alway open winter room for six persons, where we slept. The first day was very foggy, but the fog gradually disappeared...

The new essay is online: The starry sky

I've added new photos in the galleries: Parus ater (Coal Tit), Parus cristatus (Crested Tit), Parus major (Great Tit), Nucifraga caryocatactes (Spotted Nutcracker), Engadin.

Other than that, I've added the short review of the Canon 400 2.8 L IS to the Canon Lenses page.

"Snow? What snow? There is no snow!" Ciro said. So, we didn't expect to find much snow; Ciro had visited the Roseg Valley just one week ago, and the temperature was still relatively warm (between 0 and -4 celsius degrees...last year, in the same period the temperatuer was around -20°). Instead, few kilometers after the Swiss border we were caught in...

The new essay is online: Crested tit in winter

The Great Bittern is not a easy bird to photograph. Usually, it stays hidden in the reeds, and even when it comes out it is not easy too see, since it is well camouflaged between grasses and other water plants. I was quite surprised when two friends showed me good photos of this shy bird taken at Torrile - I visit this park since one year and I had never seen the...

The new essay is online: Great Bittern and 4IS

I've added new photos in the galleries: Botaurus stellaris (Great Bittern), Anas platyrhynchos (Mallard), Gallinula chloropus (Moorhen), Anas crecca (Green-winged Teal), Anser caerulescens (Snow Goose), Grus grus (Common Crane), Ciconia ciconia (White Stork).

This is one of the first photos that I've taken with the Canon 20D, few months ago. It was a dark, cloudy day, and I was photographing from the hide of Racconigi under a light rain. Mounted on my camera, there was one of the most beautiful lenses ever produced my Canon - the 300 2.8 L IS USM. This is an extremely sharp lens, it has a super fast autofocus...

The new essay is online: Mallard at high ISO

Even though I consider Torrile "a place for bird photography", sometimes there are other interesting subjects. This summer, there where hundreds of colorful dragonflies, few meters from the hide. It was very easy to photograph them on a stick or a leaf, but I was more interested to capture them in fligh, during mating, to capture a photos that is interesting both for...

The new essay is online: Dragonflies in flight