A detail of a mountain waterfall becomes abstract matter: no longer moving water, but sculpted surface, molten glass, crystalline tension.
Thanks to an extremely fast shutter speed, the flow is frozen in a suspended moment, revealing an unexpected texture: crests, folds, glossy ripples that resemble mineral substance or the living skin of ice.
The tones are cold, shifting between deep blue and pale azure, with iridescent reflections that seem to emerge from within the scene itself.
The image doesn’t show the landscape — it condenses it.
It’s a fragment of water turned into structure, into autonomous form, into natural abstraction.
A moment when chaos organizes itself into rhythm, when nature reveals itself through accumulation, pressure, through a gesture carved by light.
And the waterfall, stripped of its speed, appears suddenly still — like a thought frozen in its moment.
Born in Milan on November 28, 1977, I’ve been living in Bormio for many years, where I work as a ski instructor and draw endless inspiration from the surrounding mountains and nature.
Photography, to me, is not just about representation, it’s about interpretation.
Many of my..
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