Winter evening atmosphere at the harbour of Aci Trezza by Silva Wischeropp

Aci Trezza, also known as Acitrezza, is a fraction of the municipality of Aci Castello in the metropolitan city of Catania in the Italian region of Sicily. The municipality is located on the east coast of Sicily on the Ionian Sea. The Cyclops Islands lie off the coast.

Aci Trezza was originally a small fishing village that developed into an excursion destination for the inhabitants of Catania due to its beautiful beach.

In 1948, the film La terra trema was shot in Aci Trezza under the direction of Luchino Visconti with local actors. The film is based on Giovanni Verga's novel The Malavoglia, which depicts the hard life of the fishermen. Some of Verga's stories from Cavalleria rusticana (Sicilian peasant tales) are also based on Aci Trezza. They served as the basis for the eponymous opera Cavalleria rusticana by Pietro Mascagni.

This photographic long exposure at the harbour of Aci Trezza on the island of Sicily was taken with the NIKON D800 on 3 January 2025 in the late evening hours, after sunset.

Created by Silva Wischeropp.

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Silva Wischeropp was born in the Hanseatic city of Wismar in the former GDR. Today she lives and works in Berlin. As an experienced and passionate travel photographer whose interests span a broad range, she focuses on portraiture, street life, reportage, documentary, travel, tourism, landscape and nature. In addition, she is known for her recordings in the fields of architecture and fashion. Since 2016, her new repertoire includes surreal digital photo collages. For 20 years she has been known in Germany and abroad as a creative photo artist. Her works have been widely published and exhibited. "The photographic image process represents my personal work and creation area. This means dealing with image worlds, politics, human needs and sensitivities. The camera expands my scope to meet that other reality. Photography makes me happy, creates joy, closes boundaries, opens new doors, widens horizons. The camera teaches me to see, to sharpen the view, to capture moments, to perceive fleeting moments that are not visible to others. I am a creative person, a picture-maker, who draws on herself, does not copy a lot and develops her own imagery. So I move between the poles, reach different fixed points, look behind the scenes. Out of the thousandfold existing I manage to bring out something unique, unique moments of the picture."

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