Late October Photo

Photographer’s Note

Late October 2006, fog and rain season in North Italy, grey sky, pollution at top level, daily alarm about it for children and old people of the big cities.
Then, you jump over the Appennini Liguri and you'll find a different world.
Blue Sky, 10° more in the day and in the night, sun and people on the beach. Someone in the sea...

Many years ago, when i was a child in the 70's, on the National Tv there was a famous show, called Portobello.
It was a sort of public square where many people from all the country (specially outside the big cities), can go there and talk about what they want...about personal ideas that, in their opinion, would change the world.
in better.

A famous one, that i well remember, was a old inventor that proposed to destroy a mount on the Appennino Ligure, to open a door to the wind and to change the polluted air of North Italy!

But the Turchino is not a normal mount, but the most famous one of that Ligurian range... the Turchino, the one where there is the railway tunnel, 2 parallel higways from Milan to Genoa and where every year from the beginning of the XX century there is the Milano-San Remo bycicle race! One of the most famous and important race!

The Turchino for people of North Italy is a sort of door to the sea, to the blue sky, to the fresh marine air... for dozens, maybe hundreds of times i leaved Milan and the flat North Italy with cold, grey sky and polluted air, drivin along the A7 highway and went out from the Turchino tunnel on the Ligurian side i found another world...the one on the picture.

So when that "inventor" proposed to destroy the mount Turchino there was a big and long public discussion on radios, tv's, bars and everywhere about that idea.
totally crazy, brilliant, bull***t, genial...

Fortunally no one took that idea as a brilliant one, cause the Pianura Padana is long 400 kms and wide 200 kms, and the polluted air is higher than 15.000 meters from the ground!
The Turchino Hole should give us not more than a small, small, small hole of 2.000 square meters....

I searched on the net, i talked with many friends of my generation...at that time on the Italian Tv there were just 2 channels.
Rai 1 and Rai 2, and so, when there was Portobello, one a week, all Italy was watched that show.
All, really all the people remember something about that guy, about " the one that wont to destroy the Turchino", but NO-ONE know his name!
Also on the net there isn't anything about him.

besnard, gary91, marknunnerley, papagolf21, Clementi, kiwi_explorer, jhm, Floydian, patdeph, AiresSantos, rigoletto, josepmarin, luiscar, vinicio, isade1975, salvator, JCG, isabela_sor has marked this note useful

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besnard (30608) 2007-07-02 1:29

Bonjour Paolo
Joli cliché avec une belle luminosité qui met en valeur les maisons colorées. A cette saison il y a du monde sur la plage. Dans ma région on a du sable fin mais le soleil manque.
Merci pour le partage et bonne journée.
Nicole

gary91 (15321) 2007-07-02 1:47

Hello Paolo,
This is a very good composition with a nice strong diagonal formed by the shore. The colorful buidings at the rear are very pictural as well, I like it !
Have a nice day.
Best regards, Christian

snunney (34800) 2007-07-02 1:56

Hello Paolo,
A good well balanced composition with excellent colours and contrasts.

papagolf21 (56305) 2007-07-02 1:56

Cher Paolo,
Si je comprends bien, il faut attendre le mois d'octobre pour voir resurgir le soleil (en ce moment le ciel est bien gris sur la France du Nord)!
Jolie histoire et bonne photographie mettant en relief ces immeubles aux façades colorées. Je remarque qu'il est difficile de se coucher sur la grève, à moins d'être un fakir (galets) !
Amitiés.
Philippe

marknunnerley (2768) 2007-07-02 2:02

Hi Paolo. No wonder there was an outcry. What an idiot! We have just had one of the wettest Junes on record and they are saying we are going to get more of the same for the summer ;(
Well at least this time next week I will be in sunny Tuscany.
Oh, and 2 channels, those were the days. Seemed there was more to watch then.
br
mark

Clementi (43943) 2007-07-02 2:10

Ciao Paolo , leggendo la nota mi hai fatto tornare indietro nel tempo . hai provato a cercare su raiclik li ci sono molte puntate di diverso varieta' degli anni 70 .
la foto e' eccezionale con dei colori fantastici e un cielo simpatico .
ottimo lavoro
Giorgio

kiwi_explorer (12195) 2007-07-02 2:16

Hi Paolo,
Nice relaxing scene ... you've captured the atmosphere well. Good depth and contrast. Well composed ... I like the way you incorporated the curved shoreline. Well done! tfs
Cheers,
Renier

Nicou (44719) 2007-07-02 3:40

Hello,

Très belle image que cette belle plage avec ces gens qui ont bien de la chance de faire de la bronzette.
J'aime beau aussi ces bâtiemnt de difféentes couleurs qui bordent la plage.

Bravo et belle journée

Nicou

jhm (82421) 2007-07-02 3:42

Hello Paolo,

In Italy you have very hot weather in October, in Belgium is this different.
Very well composition and you chose a excellent angle, we see the people on the beach and the buildings to the left, also excellent depth and perspective. TFS.

Best regards,
John.

jalab_temen (1945) 2007-07-02 4:25

Wake me up, when september ends... lalala...because this part of Italy is amazing in october. The colours, the composition are perfect. Thanks:
Jalab from Hungary

Floydian (30970) 2007-07-02 6:18

Hi Paolo,
Nice beach scenery, although the black colour of the beach is not so inviting as a golden white beach from a bounty island ;-)
Good that you included those houses in to it, gives it more colour and a good overal impression how the place looks...very nioce.
Regards, Henk

jrj (34779) 2007-07-02 7:29

Interesting setting here Paolo with the mix of beach and rental houses. Good point to shoot from including also the background urbanized hill

patdeph (17796) 2007-07-02 7:36

hi Paolo
I like very much the colors of this photo,the light is nice because the sun is not too strong.I like the line of colored buildings,the nice cloudy sky,the blus water.the sharpness on the stones is great.Nice to have this weather in october.
Have a nice evening.
Pascale

AiresSantos (42010) 2007-07-02 9:21

Hi Paolo,
Very nice this view with excellent satured colours and beautiful light.
I like your PV and how you framed the picture.
TFS and have a nice week
Aires

Silvio1953 (41659) 2007-07-02 10:28

Ciao Paolo, quelli vecchietti come me se la ricordano bene la storia del Turchino, è incredibile come un'idea così strampalata sia stata oggetto di un lungo dibattito e di interventi dei vari Soloni di turno,mah.
Bella la tua foto di una splendida giornata d'ottobre, non rara lungo la costa ligure, splendidi i colori e bella la prospettiva, ciao Silvio

josepmarin (33785) 2007-07-02 11:20

Ciao Palo,
este punto de vista tan bajo nos da una gran sensación de profundidad y perspectiva a la imagen, en un encuadre perfecto y con un gran grafismo gracias a las diagonales de las fachadas de los edificios y de las colinas.
Todos los elementos son interesantes y funcionan muy bien, la gente da vida a la escena, y la luz y los colores son muy buenos.
La playa de piedras debe ser un poco incómoda para tumbarse, sobre todo para los que estamos acostumbrados a las playas de arena más fina.
Bonita foto, complimenti.
Josep

cessy (13647) 2007-07-02 14:12

late october and still able to enjoy the beach, what a nice place !!
very nice capture, Paolo
I like the angle and composition

Budapestman (41790) 2007-07-03 1:16

Hi Paolo,
Beautiful place, I like the cosy and peaceful atmosphere, composition is excellent. Fascinating lights and colours, idyllic mood, Great! Have a nice day
George

rigoletto (26196) 2007-07-03 1:39

Ciao Paolo,
Good to read that Turchino was left as it is, therefore the pollution of north could not reach those beautiful shores of south. Intersenitng architecture, which reminds me of the coastline of Lyons.
Btw, does the name Turchino have anything to do with Turks?

luiscar (3282) 2007-07-03 2:52

Hello Paolo, very good composition, I like as you have worked the POV with the people.
good tone of color and definition.
made good
a greeting

Charo (31671) 2007-07-03 3:09

Hola Paolo,
Excelente toma con muchos elementos, playa, montaña, ciudad, gente...todo en perfecta armonía.
Buen trabajo.
Cordialmente
Charo

vinicio (22370) 2007-07-03 4:42

Splendida prospettiva dal basso Paolo, complimenti, hai radunato molti elementi nella foto, e con ottimo successo, bravo.
Ho gia voglia di tornare in vacanza... :)
Ciao
Vinicio

isade1975 (3347) 2007-07-03 7:01

Hi Paolo,
Very nice photo of the Italian coast and an interesting note!
Nice light and details,
Have a nice day,
Isabelle

salvator (18797) 2007-07-04 2:15

Ciao Paolo,
The composition is absolutely superb. The sense of the majesticity with the huse buildings on the left and the mountains is superb. The sharpness and details, the colors are wonderful.
Best regards. Ciao. Salvator.

sebinho342 (18740) 2007-07-11 6:45

Hi Paolo, yes you have the best team but we have the best sand ... Excellent picutre Paolo, i do like this kind of lack of smoothness, not too sharp and this is good like this.
As usual your talent on colors talk
Good job Paolo :) (don't know why i smile to you .. ;) )

JCG (25263) 2007-07-14 6:55

Hi Paolo,

No sand in in the shoes !!! An edge of sea nicely taken in photograph, the colors are beautiful and pleasant. This superb sky gives much of depth to the image. Pretty photograph and thank you for the comment.

With all my friendships and a good WE,

Jean-Charles

isabela_sor (42097) 2007-07-16 5:52

First I wanna say congratulations for your idea for making this series!Second,I will ask you why the first pic was about October :)Your composition is well balanced and the colorful buildings and the people enjoying the sun on the beach add life.Very good POV
A nice week