I've always been fascinated by the underwater world. The fishes are some of the most amazing creatures - there are so many varieties of shapes and colors! So far, I've not had yet the opportunity to explore underwater photography, but my love for fishes is always strong. Every time that I see an acquarium I give it a fascinated look - and you can imagine how I was...

The new essay is online: Acquarium photography

I've added new photos to the galleries: Water Drops, Podiceps nigricollis (Black Necked Grebe), Aythya ferina (Pochard), Aythya nyroca (Ferruginous Duck), Anser anser (Greylag Goose), Phalacrocorax carbo (Great Cormorant).

The new Canon 1D Mark3 has arrived! It has a 10 megapixel APS-H (1.3x) sensor and it is capable of 10 FPS for 30 RAW or 110 JPEG! It has a new autofocus with 19 cross-type AF sensor; ISO 50-6400, anti-dust, 3.0" LCD with Live View...impressive! It will be available from April at US$ 4000.

You can download a detailed white paper or read the press release and specifications on Canon website.

Fenice's website is now online! I've met Giulia "Fenice" in late December 2006 - after few months, she has become one of my truly best friends :-) Her entusiasm for nature appears clearly into each of her images: even though she has begun to photograph quite recently (she has the tele lens from just one month!), she has already many great photos, and she is always improving!

I highly recomment the visit: http://www.pbase.com/fenice

The Canon 600 f/4 L IS USM usually is considered a "tripod lens" - it weights 5.5 kg, and it is not easy to handheld it for an entire day. But I knew that we were going to walk a lot, and I wanted to reduce weight as much as possible, so I decided to leave at home the sturdy, but bulky and heavy, Gitzo 1548 tripod with Wimberley head. I carried...

The new essay is online: Chamoises

I've added new photos to the galleries: Hemigrammus bleherii, Trichogaster leeri (Pearl Gourami), Cygnus cygnus (Whooper Swan), Fulica atra (Coot), Bucephala clangula (Goldeneye).

I've added new photos to the galleries: Rupicapra rupicapra (Chamois), Capra ibex (Alpine Ibex), Gypaetus barbatus (Bearded Vulture), Ardea cinerea (Grey Heron), Ciconia ciconia (White Stork), Aix galericulata (Mandarin Duck).

Laying flat on the ground, side by side with my friend Fenice, I had the luck to admire the elegant courtship dance of a couple of grebes. As every time that I photograph a water bird, I tried to place the lens as low as possible: luckly, we found a quay along the Sile river, where we could get almost at water level, placing the lenses directly on the ground. Since the grebes were...

The new essay is online: A day with grebes - text and photos by Juza & Fenice

I've added new photos to the galleries: Podiceps cristatus (Great Crested Grebe), Tachybaptus ruficollis (Little Grebe), Larus ridibundus (Black Headed Gull), Remiz pendulinus (Penduline Tit), Cygnus olor (Mute Swan).

Canon has published a very interesting series of video that shows how a lens is manufactured, from the RAW materials to the final assembly.

You can view the lens manufacturing videos (and some other videos about lenses and interviews) on the Canon Camera Museum website: http://www.canon.com/camera-museum/tech/l_plant/f_index.html

Choices...many times, you have to face a choice...and here, I had a particulary difficult choice: I had just realized that I was on the wrong path...it was late afternoon, and I had still few hours of light. As if it was not enough, there was a thick fog, I was alone, and tired. The darn GPS was somewhere on my desktop, at home...But let's begin from...

The new essay is online: Choices