Night Photography on the Alps
Photograph portraying the bivouac Carpano (2.865 m) by night.
Single shot, taken at moonlight, phase 50%. The refuge interior (blankets, cots) can be discerned thanks to the light of some candles.
In the Alps, especially in Italian territory, the term "bivouac" also refers to this kind of tiny structures, permanently unattended, for use by climbers to retreat and overnight.
This is located in a secluded area of the Gran Paradiso National Park (Italy).
These shelters always remind me the US mailboxes :-) (just bigger, of course!), or, with a little bit more of imagination, even small spaceships coming from alien worlds. That's why I always try to create an atmosphere like "hey, visitors have arrived among us"… also a sort of TARDIS time machine, as seen in the Doctor Who sci-fi series.
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