It has been a long time since I’ve posted a photo, so I'll try to get it done today!
My passion for nature and alpine photography is unchanged, but in the last year many things have happened: I got married, I moved house and, from a social point of view, I’ve opened a YouTube channel dedicated to my organ performances, as I am first and foremost a musician, a concert organist.
YouTube channel “Organo Santuario della Consolata”
Therefore, since the time I dedicate to social media is not much, I have had to reduce my activity on other platforms. Anyhow, I hope to catch up soon my presence here, as I was doing in the past!

This is a beautiful night view from the 3,000 meters of Col d'Ambin, in the Alps of the upper Susa valley (Italy/France).
What can I say, I guess that those who are familiar with high mountains know well that finding oneself above the clouds can be a very frequent experience, while deciding to stay in place to be able to admire unimaginable natural spectacles like this one can be a little rarer :-) or, for all intents and purposes, a “photographer activity!” ;-)
Whatever the reason that drives us to stay in the high mountains at night, what I would like to point out is that these are always unique moments, priceless, to never forget how infinitely small and transient we are, yet we participate in an immensely large reality, which transcends our human understanding.

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The night.
It has always inspired poets, musicians and painters... not least, we, photographers too.
What's so fascinating about it?
In my opinion, the night lives in mystery. Let's deprive it of that secret aura that surrounds it and we would have lost it...
It’s a whispered dialogue of soft caresses between lights and shadows, which generates three-dimensionality, much more unpredictable, ever changing and delicate, if compared to what happens under harsh sunlight.
It therefore allows us to access, while awake, a oneiric world.
It is no coincidence that magic arises precisely from the relationship that each of us has with the abstract and the unfathomable.
Although we spend our lives looking for answers, perhaps unconsciously we do not want to understand everything, maybe we yearn to be amazed by the unexpected or by what goes beyond our understanding... in a subliminal desire to regain that secret dimension that goes BEYOND what we have lived and experienced so far.
Long moonlight exposure taken in the highest and most remote area of the Tour d’Ambin, which I did in summer 2022 with my girlfriend.
Here is the video of the entire trek: youtu.be/7UIKU-FNIUw

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Meditating on "What is essential is invisible to the eye", by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, I reason on the fact that actually being above my valley at night may seem like a non-essential activity... but for me it is, because only in these moments I relate to the invisible.
I notice more and more that today's trend is to homogenize everything, therefore an applause to that wholly personal quid that motivates our lives, each one special and different, therefore unique.

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Spending the night alone in some remote place in the high mountains allows to experience a double sense of remoteness: the purely physical and the temporal...
The physical one is at least obvious, as after hours and hours of hiking we inevitably move away from our places of comfort. The temporal one is perceptible from the moment in which, when evening falls, it seems to have also traveled through time and thus to have found oneself in a dimension prior to our appearance on Earth.
Deafened by the continuous “fireworks” of the plain, which seems to reward the emptiness of “self-centeredness at all costs”, being able to experience such particular and essential moments reminds us how illusory human ambitions are, on a planet, moreover, which could quietly do without us.

From left to right: The Apostles, Money Glacier, Testa di Money, Roccia Viva, Becca di Gay, Testa di Valnontey, Testa della Tribulation.

Alta Valnontey, in the heart of the Gran Paradiso National Park.

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Powerful winds at sunset, observed from Col d'Ambin, an alpine pass in the Cottian Alps located on the Italian-French border at 2,921 meters above sea level.
A photo tries to convey the atmosphere experienced in such moments of primeval essence…
Fortunately, I’ve also taken some videos in this splendid location, which can be viewed at the following links:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=BWtAc9YPRaI&t=12s
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7UIKU-FNIUw&t=8s

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