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In my primary photographic interests there are two kinds of birds: those with feathers and those made of metal. Today, while hunting for feathers, I'm getting some interesting metal. MM7235 and MM55096 - the two first italian Typhoons - are shining in the afternoon light, while their pilots are practicing touch-and-go manouvers in the Grosseto airbase, southern Tuscany, home of the Italian Air Force 4th combat group.
I've already seen this landscape, a lot of years ago - but it was only in a dream. Today it's for real: a crystal-clear summer day that makes it possible to enjoy a wonderful sight of the southern Arcipelago Toscano, even if I am tens of kilometers in the inner hills. Not an unusual thing in the cold and wind-swept winter days, but a real rarity in a warm and still-air summer day.
Montecristo island is clear and crisp, and it's about one-hundred kilometers from here; Corse, which appears on the horizon, is more than one-hundred-and-fifty kilometers away. The countryside offers so many details that pointing the telephoto lens and exploring is a pleasure.
Such a day probably happens only once in twenty years or so. The air is so still that I can't hear any noise - an absolute silence rules here. Even swallows are flying quietly - but just concentrating a bit I can hear their wings gliding in the air when they pass over my head.
This silence, together with the golden light of the setting sun, undoubtely adds to the magic of this location, Ghiaccio Forte (Strong Ice), which is an archeological site where the remains of an ancient etrurian village have been found. I can't prevent myself from thinking that those guys were definitely skilled in finding wonderful places for building their towns.
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