30 minutes ago I fell asleep while I was uploading a couple of picture in the "Catania "close up"" gallery ("House in Liberty Style (?)" and "Catania Cathedral,HDR").
They are online now, but I wanted to add more pictures (still missing some pictures taken in the Roman amphitheater) and I also wanted to created a new gallery.
But... the day has been busy, I have been listening from 8 to 10 (about) to a Quantum Mechanics lecture, from about 10 to 12 to a Structure of Matter lecture , and I have been in the laboratory from 3pm to past 7 pm "playing with laser light". All this might be funny and/or interesting but it is pretty tiring. Beside, from 6.50pm to 7.15pm I took some pictures at the experiment apparatus too...again, fun but after 8hours you start being able to just think:"Go home, go home, I want my bed!" ;P
I guess that today I did enough, or at least, it's what my body decided for me. It's saying: "Ely, go to sleep".
I am going to listen to it (if it gets "angry" it can be really painful ;D)...or at least, that's my intention.
The site is growing up (slowly but growing up) and I am caring about physics too. I guess that I cannot complain.
In a month (May 28) will be my birthday, 22nd birthday. If it will be a "calm and well spent" day as today it might be a really nice birthday.
We'll see.
Have a nice night.
This is an original way to eat food, isn't it? Most birds don't eat this way... but I think that someone it helped the bird to quickly run awayin case of "suspicious noise".
Too many thoughts or just the desire to fly away. To where? Dunno.
Unplanned shot. Enough lucky shot.
“Escape for a living”, the title that I gave to this picture.
I do love this shot. I put this in my mp3 read as background, more than an year ago. It’s still there.
The birds take off if there is a suspicious noise or shadow getting too close, they survive this way.
My imagination or desire to smile “take off” when a too sad thought or situation is getting too close…but sometimes I cannot catch my own thoughts.
Little sparrows “work” best 
And it’s so weird to discover that this picture has been taken on March 30th 2008, just an year before I did the first part of an exam that is slowing down my studies a lot. Looks like someone is trying to mock me, or just to make me smile.
I cannot change this answer for the rest of my life… I was born an grew up there.
I still live in Catania.
When I was 12 or so I was PROUD to be Sicilian I was so PROUD to live in Catania. I loved this little city, I tried to focus on learning the local language too. [Italian (or English) is the language you use to study, Catanese (local Sicilian) is the "city" dialect.]
Few years later I started feeling in prison in Catania and started to describe it as a “little meaningless town”.
When I was 19 I almost hated the city, it couldn’t give me the chance to study photography or similar thing… but I was too weak to go away, to go to Rome or Milan to study what I wanted to study. Beside, in my family (as in many other ones), an artistic career is consider quite unsafe, too difficult and dangerous and… somehow I think they are right.
All this made me decide to study physics. Pretty far from art, I know… but it was the only thing that I found interesting and, actually, science is my “first love” (since I was 9, while I started to REALLY love photography only since I was 13 or so…).
Now, physics studies are quite failed, I will go ahead to get the degree as well as I can but, I am probably walking on the way that will make me dreaming for job I will never like but I will need as water in the desert because: “money are necessary to build up a family”.
That’s not a complain, or probably it is but… trust me, I don’t mean to complain, I just want to explain you WHY I rarely take picture of this city (beside the fact that I still don’t understand how to picture a building)… and that’s probably the reason while the pictures are so “poor” in quality… but I like some Catania details so I am going to show you up something:
Just an example…
I remember when I was a child these patterns always fascinated me, and this particular case I have always “seen” a fountain in this “scheme on the floor”.
And seeking for details I like… it’s probably the only good thing I can do when I don’t like something.
It’s probably the main way, for me, to understand things.
—> This mean there is a new gallery in the site: ” Cities—>Catania “Close Up” “
A lot of times seems like there is no way to go ahead, no way to keep on fighting.
And especially seems like there is no way to keep on “hoping” and “dreaming”, and you can just keep thinking: “I wish I were somewhere else, I wish I were someone else”.
Yeah, Yeah. Quite annoying, upsetting and kind of “frustrating”.
What can I do?
Close my eyes, start thinking about something pleasant? Where I felt well, why did I felt so?
Yeah, cool! Many times it works… or, I am not able to do this with just my mind, I turn on the computer as soon as I can and start jumping all around my pictures…
Today I stopped on this:
:)
There has been no way to stop smiling and thanking.
Yeah, yeah. I am supposed to tell you something about this picture, about what was happening when I was taking it… but, the truth is that I can remember only that I was pleased and glad and “feeling free”. Nothing important for this world but exactly what I was seeking for today! ;D
At the moment I can just say that I had the chance, quite unplanned, to take this shot… Unplanned because when I took this picture I couldn’t see so many seagulls… but the were amazingly there. I just had to way to see there.
Now, seems like I just have to wait, to wait to see what is amazing in this life because I know there is something of amazing, because I have seen its sign before.
Or I can start telling me lies as: “it’s not important if you can like what you do, most of this life is just awful and you just have to keep on going ahead”…
I don’t like lies. Do you?
One of these is: forcing myself to look at this world, to focus my mind on what is around me in order to avoid to lose a detail that might enrich my day or, if I am lucky, my life in general.
This picture, that someone likes, that someone commented saying:”It looks lit from inside”… wasn’t shot in a studio (I have never been in a photography studio), I didn’t take it with “special” instruments. It’ just a picture of a (small) rose of a plant on my balcony in a little city on the East Sicilian cost. Nothing more.
That light isn’t a post production artifact, I just “helped” it with a little light level adjustment, it’s natural. It was the sun shining on it… the same sun that all of you know.
A simple detail, a definitely unnecessary picture… it reports nothing, nothing important.
It can just testify that someone, somewhere, a day of a certain year, has gone out on the balcony, just after lunch, holding a camera in the hope to be able to find a reason more to smile, to find a reason more to make someone smiling, to find a reason more to remember that even the smallest and simplest thing (or person) can shine with the Light that is necessary for our lives.
Taking pictures, for me, is a good exercise to practice my eyes to seek for that Light, to learn to find it.
Next step?
Being able to understand why God created mosquitoes that keeps me awake at night ;D
P.S. New pictures: "Flowers-->Roses"
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