Changing Colours

“Change is the only constant”

Indeed change is an everlasting constant and whilst travelling through Sicily for a few days in October I realised how the environment can change in a relatively short moment.

The clouds moved and with them a profusion of new shades, new tones and a palette of colours  that every photographer would have dreamt.

There, watching all these changes happening in blink of an eye, all these variables so independent but working together to create a symphony, a subject that never seizes to inspire.

It was not one thought but many that caused my self to act in a different way and move away from any conventional way of shooting this incredible show.  The bright colours and the way they morphed into each other left nothing more but an ocean of ideas, the only problem being how to handle all of them at the same time.  Not even thought was enough to register every single burst of stimulus.

Then blackness, a black so deep that light seemed to be totally absorbed and remained un-reflected from the sharp surface that had flooded the sarrouding. It was this blackness that compelled the surroundings to survive in such a way, keeping balance between life and sudden death.

It is interesting to know that most of the trees surrounding Mt. Etna are dependent on an eco-system based on height like most other mountains.  It is also good to know that some of the trees face sudden incineration when the heart of the mountain expels molten rock.  However so, they remain there standing up, still marking their presence, a natural monument that clearly shows how things can change in a blink.