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PO DELTA: FLOODED WOOD

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©Sandro Santioli

The Oasis of Punta Alberete is a stretch of flooded forest near Ravenna, crossed by wooden bridges that allow you to cross the internal canals. Here we begin to perceive the “intimate” part of the swamp: the dark and foul-smelling water, the shadows, the play of light, the indefinite figures that are created under the stagnant surface. In this place the experience becomes tangible, a real emotion, with its strong smell of damp rising in the nostrils, with the curiosity that is reflected between the eyes of people who are reflected in the veils of water, with the creaking of bridges and other noises of nature.
Many times I have been with groups of photographers during the programs of my Photo Workshops and each time the experience has been stimulating and exciting for each of us.
As photographers, we observe the world with particular eyes and in this magical, somewhat fairy-tale place, we have many interpretative and recreational possibilities of reality. Anything that may escape or appear normal, uninteresting or repetitive to an audience of visitors can become in the eyes of a careful and receptive, noteworthy photographer.
A conjunction between the real and the imaginary understood as the choice of composition, combinations, perspective, combinations of colors, lights and shadows, use of unconventional shooting techniques, etc. they serve to express our perception of reality.
Here we can give free rein to fantasy and experimentation, all with a “light soul”, as in a state of bliss, of abandonment to one’s own emotion and sensoriality, trying to combine our seeing with our inner feeling.