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Kira Pollack, director of photography at TIME Magazine declared that "ten percent of all photographs made in the entire history of photography were made last year - an astounding figure. More than ever before, thanks in part to the cell phone technology, the world is engaged with photography and communicating through pictures" [...]

So I want to close this 2012 with the Top Ten Photos according to TIME magazine, with the hope of having excellent photo opportunities in next year.

Of course here I don't want to present all photos: a great shot that I think is rising above the others is the one I attach here, a sort of "The Day After Tomorrow" movie poster...but terribly real.

If you want to see all the shots follow this link:
http://lightbox.time.com/2012/12/27/a-year-of-photographers-in-the-picture/#1

Happy New Year to you all! See ya in 2013!

However you choose to celebrate this time of the year, I wanted to take a moment to wish everyone who views this blog a happy holidays season.

So best wishes to you all, hoping that the new year brings growth and happiness...we really need it!

Have fun with family and friends and do find some time to play! Take care!

I think the most difficult thing to photograph is the thing that's around us everyday.

My new book represents an experiment of visually exploring an urban landscape in constant movement with the simplicity and charm of instant photography.

Follow me wandering around my hometown for this urban exploration with instant eyes.

At this link you can find a sneak preview and...if you really love it...you can also buy it! :-)
http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/detail/3769347

Enjoy!

Even the photo taken quickly from the car, of course not technically perfect, just because may remind something to us, it's worth to be fixed in our mind.

You know my attitude to match songs and photos...this one is the combination of one of 1000 thoughts in my head in that particular moment....

Do you think is matching properly? :-)

There's a place out on the edge of town, sir,
Risin' above the factories and the fields
Now, ever since I was a child, I can remember
That mansion on the hill
In the day you can see the children playing
On the road that leads to those gates of hardened steel
Steel gates that completely surround, sir,
The mansion on the hill

At night my daddy'd take me and we'd ride
Through the streets of a town so silent and still
Park on a back road along the highway side
Look up at that mansion on the hill

In the summer all the lights would shine
There'd be music playin', people laughin' all the time
Me and my sister, we'd hide out in the tall cornfields
Sit and listen to the mansion on the hill

Tonight down here in Linden Town
I watch the cars rushin' by, home from the mill
There's a beautiful full moon rising
Above the mansion on the hill

(Bruce Springsteen - Mansion On The Hill - Nebraska)

The first cold descent of the year coincided with the start of meteorological winter and with the arrival of the first snow here near where I live.
With this premise, I think this winter we will reserve many surprises...we have just to wait and...look out of the window!
"Winter start" is the new photo of the month on my website. Enjoy!