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joethelion · Joined: 27 Jun 2007 Posts: 13 Location: Italy

Ciao!!, my name is Marco and I write from Italy.

In the past 12 years I’ve been travelling in the South West with my wife Cristina, we are “serious” hikers, and large format photographers too (we use 8x10” cameras, but we don’t shoot landscape anymore), and we’ve been to a lot of places you’re talking about in this marvellous forum, but obviously we’ve NOT been to a lot of others places ;), and reading about your experiences and looking at your beautiful images is a terrific sources for us, simply put this forum and their members are great!!!!

In 2005 our little baby Giulio was born, and apart for a photographic workshop in may 2006 (one week in Arizona and Utah, I was the instructor, here is a short video and some images: http://www.fotoavventure.it/freecontent/workshops/viaggi_fotoavventure/ ), we’ve not been in the South West since august 2005, we really miss those magnificent landscapes, the solitude and the desert, and we’re looking forward to taking our little Giulio with us in the wilderness, I think it’ll be in 2008, we’re counting every seconds...

I don’t know how I can contribute to this forum, here there are a lot of people who are much much much much more experienced than me and I have only to read and learn, but I read the forum every day and I want you to know that reading what you wrote is a delightful and peaceful oasis during the day…and in case anyone is going to come to Italy, please feel free to ask me for informations and support!

Ciao
Marco

Alex · Joined: 27 Sep 2005 Posts: 2374 Location: SLC, UT

Hey there..... oh no hesse's people are taking over our forum! :lol8:

If you ever come here, let hesse know, she will do a personal guiding trip in Italian!

Where are you guys from? I lived in Anzio for about half a year back in 1990. Loved the Italy!

I looked at your site, looks like you got around quite a bit, glad you enjoy the trip reports on here. Welcome to the site! :five:

joethelion · Joined: 27 Jun 2007 Posts: 13 Location: Italy

Ciao Alex and thank you for the warm welcome!!

Alex wrote: Hey there..... oh no hesse's people are taking over our forum!

:lol8:

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Where are you guys from? I lived in Anzio for about half a year back in 1990. Loved the Italy!

We're from Milan, northern Italy, great to know that you lived here :2thumbs: , Anzio and its sorroundings are really beautiful, I've been there a couple of times (I love archeological sites)...

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I looked at your site, looks like you got around quite a bit, glad you enjoy the trip reports on here.

On Fotoavventure, which is a website devoted mainly to large format photography which I founded together with another italian photographer, Roberto Manderioli, there's only a small portion of the images we took in our trips in the USA (and here is my "personal" website instead, I photograph/work with Cristina: http://www.cristinamian.com, as I wrote for our personal works we don't shoot landscapes anymore).

Luckily here in Italy we have 3/4 weeks of vacation every year :cool2: , so we have plenty of time to travel: in our trips we've been several times in California, Nevada, Arizona, Utah, Colorado and New Mexico, and only once in South Dakota, Montana, Idaho and Florida (which we didn't like)...

If you ever will come to Italy again it'll be a pleasure to meet you!

Ciao
Marco

davis_b_1 · Joined: 04 Feb 2006 Posts: 1256 Location: On www.bogley.com

Welcome to the Forums

Alex · Joined: 27 Sep 2005 Posts: 2374 Location: SLC, UT

joethelion wrote: in our trips we've been several times in California, Nevada, Arizona, Utah, Colorado and New Mexico, and only once in South Dakota, Montana, Idaho and Florida (which we didn't like)...

If you ever will come to Italy again it'll be a pleasure to meet you!

Ciao
Marco

I have to say, you have been around more than 70% of Americans!

Sombeech · Joined: 09 Dec 2004 Posts: 11288 Location: The Rubbish Bin

Welcome to the forum! :2thumbs:

accadacca · Joined: 02 Dec 2004 Posts: 7057 Location: The Interwebs

Welcome to the group. :2thumbs:

rockgremlin · Joined: 09 Dec 2004 Posts: 3829 Location: Hotel California

So.....are all of the women in Italy named "Cristina?" :haha:

Welcome to uUtah.

Alex · Joined: 27 Sep 2005 Posts: 2374 Location: SLC, UT

rockgremlin wrote: So.....are all of the women in Italy named "Cristina?" :haha:

Welcome to uUtah.

What he means to say is, are all women in Italy hot?

Justin, I was there and the answer is yes :haha: :twisted:

Jaxx · Joined: 16 Jan 2007 Posts: 1502

Hey. Love your pictures, and your name "the lion". Welcome to the forum!

live2ride · Joined: 20 Jun 2005 Posts: 1069 Location: Riding my bike

Welcome to the forum, I would love to do a biking trip around Italy!!!

joethelion · Joined: 27 Jun 2007 Posts: 13 Location: Italy

Hi guys, and many thanks to you all!!, I really appreciate the warm welcome!!! :2thumbs: :2thumbs:

For what concern italian women: well, actually I have to say that the number of beautiful women is far above the medium if compared to other countries (and obviously I'm not referring to USA at all, all the american women, especially the ones in this forum, are the most beautiful women on earth :roll: :whistling: :bandit: :flag: :cool2: ), maybe because here there's a lot of attention to fashion and the "look", and sometimes even a so so woman may look gorgeous if she knows what to wear and how to make up...

And yes, even if maybe this is becoming a sort of "common place" (but it's true), we do have great foods :eat: and great wines :boozer:, there's a lot of attention here at those aspects of the so called "quality" of life, it's a kind of "cultural" heritage, even if I have to say that here where I live (the industrial part of the country), the "quality" has badly degenerated in recent years.

Ciao!!
Marco

Alex · Joined: 27 Sep 2005 Posts: 2374 Location: SLC, UT

Quality of life = good food and beautiful women..... my kind of quality of life! :lol8: :2thumbs:

the voice · Joined: 10 Jun 2007 Posts: 78 Location: Bountiful

Marco & Cristina welcome,
It is great to see the art of large format photography is alive and well.
Fantastic photos :2thumbs:

This a link to an article I think you will like.

http://www.naturephotographers.net/articles0204/mh0204-1.html

Also, a link to a friend that I knew years ago in Boise who has come a long way in his craft. Enjoy :cool2:

http://michaelhewes.com/

Again, Welcome to the uutah
:rockon:

joethelion · Joined: 27 Jun 2007 Posts: 13 Location: Italy

Ciao the voice and thank you! :2thumbs: , thank you for the kind words and the two beautiful links, we couldn't agree more with the concepts expressed in the article (for our "artistic" works we too prefer color negatives or very "natural" colour slides like Fuji Astia 100F instead of Velvia), and the amazing images of your friend really enlightened our evening!! :2thumbs: ...

Yes, luckily large format photography is still alive and well, I think that, in a paradoxical way, the recent digital "crazyness" in some ways has contributed to the reinassance and diffusion of large format photography, because a lot of photographers, mainly in the landscape and "arty" world, feel more and more the need for a more meditative and thoughtful approach to their compositions...sadly here in Europe the availability of large format films, expecially 8x10", is not like in the USA, and the prices are also very high if compared to USA, that's why everytime we come in your country we come back in Italy with tons of large format films!!! :roll: :mrgreen:

Ciao
Marco