I love this website.
I worked on it very hard.

I used WordPress to do it, and I customized it doing myself the theme and installing a lot of plugins that I will describe elsewere.

One day I will publish this theme, but not now.
It is not finished yet… and I have to change a lot of things (like I did today with the menu) to allow people to use it with any content.

For now, I just want to relax and use it, cause I need to write and publish my photos.

This tuesday the gift I did to myself finally arrived.

My new camera, a Nikon Coolpix p5100.

I bought it at a good price at pixmania.com. It was 80€ cheaper than the shops around there, and so, also to give them some more incomes, I bough also an additional battery, a fast (150x) SD memory of 4 Gb, a bag for it, and a multy-memory-card usb-reader to make some order on the desk.
The total, with expedition and taxes, was 450€.
My only regret is that the italian nital.it insurance+service is missing, cause the camera is imported for Europe and the services Nikon provides are displaced nationally.

The choice, was really hard.
My initial intention, after a really good experience with Samsung, was to trust the brand and buy another Samsung.
Infact, my final step is to buy a reflex, but I needed a “nearly-professional” camera before that, to learn how to use it in a more professional way, so I thought to buy a bridge.

The problem, was that Samsung have done a lot of confusion with it’s cameras, and I was unable to decide wich one to buy (and to find wich one was the NV-series best camera).
Also, the peak Canon bridge camera was too much expensive for me, 100 more euros and I could have had a small reflex for the same price.
So finally I choosed a P-series Nikon, the best one. Coolpix P5100.
Nikon coolpix p5100 is a bridge camera, so, it’s in the middle between a compact and a reflex.

I arrived home at 19:30 like every day, and I opened the box ensuring that every thing I bought was working correctly.
When I finished, I had a very fast dinner and I runned out of the house with her in my hands.

The initial approach wasn’t good. My “old” Samsung was more intuitive and simple, but that did not worry me cause it is a more professional camera, and that was ok for me.

It’s body is bigger than a normal compact camera, and it have an objective that cames out from the front when it turns on.
It’s not portable like my “old” one, but it can be also carried easily in a small bag (even to attach to the belt) or around the neck with it’s strap.

My first photos with her was really impressive, of course I used only the “automatic” mode but I was really surprised.

I had a Dungeons & Dragon session that night, but I played with her a lot during the game and I setted it up totally before the end of the day.

I will write a serious review of that camera when I will know it better, for now, I can just say it do very nice photos and I’m particularly surprised by the indoor and night shots, they are so bright even with very few light.
Also the flash, the times I tried it, is very well-balanced with the shot.
So if you do a photo with the flash (I hate it but sometimes I have to use it) the target is perfectly illuminated, not too much, not too less.

One of the first reason why I changed camera was that, the impossibility of doing photos in low-light situations, even in morning or just after a sunset, or indoor.

Halloween passed like every other day, plain. No surprises, no delusions.
It’s good that I don’t expect nothing from other people, they can’t disappoint me.

So that 31 august, I just walked around with my long black leather jacket looking that weird people… I like to dress in black, and I also love leather.

Party Hard, Have fun.
I like to look people. I’m an observer.
Some groups of girls looked at me laughting and asked me… “what’s your disguise?”
“myself”, I coldly answered. That was true.

I was in bed early, the day after, it was the italian festivity of “Tutti i Santi”, so a not-working day.

My objective: a photo-trip at Noale.

I arrived in the place at 11 of the morning.
It was so cold, but the day was very sunny.

I taked some time to walk around my target: “La Rocca” that in italian means “The Small Fortress”.
It’s a medieval ruin of a small castle surrounded by an artificial fosse.
All is inside a park, where swans and ducks swims all around spreading peacefulness.

In autumn, it’s even better, cause the trees are all of different colors and offer to their slipping roamers beautiful sights.

I like to derive some time for me, to wander around and think.
My thoughts was so deep, like the river around “La Rocca”.

Also, I did a lot of nice photos… that I uploaded into the Venice Surroundings gallery.

That day I enjoyed the time. Nice light, nice weather, a wanderful blue sky.
I was very relaxed, and a photo I did myself made me see it.

Once again I was… quiet… inside.

In this last 4 months I got so involved in one my passions: photography.

I’m not an expert, neither I use professional tools, but I’m intentioned to go ahead and -by now- I’m auguring well.

The weblink of my gallery is this:
http://picasaweb.google.com/alvise.nicoletti

Picasa is a great software of the google family, with it, I organized all my photos in few minutes into galleries and uploaded them into a free webspace 1 Gb big.

Actually I’m searching a plugin for wordpress (the software I’m using for this blog) that allows me to publish the photos directly here in browsable pages.

I write down that post just to say I’m still alive…

Life goes on, time is always less than how much I’d like to have, and things are not going really good.
However, I’m creating, as always, in different ways and shapes.

Actually I’m really involved in a fantasy game that count on my work to go ahead. It’s called Dungeons & Dragons.

I’m creating a world, a story, a path for some players to follow and lots of obstacles to prevail.
It’s a full time work, even if we play only once in a week, but it’s becoming a nice hobby.
For me, it’s an excuse to write: I’m testing out my imagination and by now it’s going well.
I made a website for them too, in Italian cause I don’t have time to translate stuff and cause their all dumb with English.
That is the temporary address: http://utopia.canenero.org/

I’ll make an indipendent page for that in the future, cause fantasy world is always been a passion for me.

I’m drafting lot of other things in this days too, so I will post them down all toghether this month. Come back soon.

In this website I try to concentrate and pull out feelings that in those years hollowed me.
By the way, it’s a bunch of binary bytes, an endless queue of ONES and ZEROS created by me, readed by your browser, and passed through kilometers of kilometers of cables buried who knows were in the world.

This is what I call a comunication:

• two persons
• a way-to

So… let’s see… is easy to understand who are the two persons.
The problem, in comunication, is the way-to do it.

I’m sure that no one will understand the concepts I will try to explain there, but comunication is like science, it arrives to perfection through approssimation.
So, if I will be misunderstood the first time, I will be better comprhended the second, and so on. Everytime what you’ll understand will be more comparable to what I was trying to say.
This is a website also, so it’s done of code, structural informations used by me to impress you, with multimedia, images, ideas, and my endless tryes to put them toghether in a nice-looking way.
For a better, safer, and consciousness view, I just want to ask you to visit this website with Firefox.
First of all cause I love and support free software, and second, cause it follow standars, that are “the language” that I followed in order to write that website.

• Here is the way-to communicate, standards.

Unfortunately, the odd thing of standars is that everyone have it’s own.

Nonostante mi piaccia fare siti internet, e ne abbia fatti svariati, non sono mai riuscito a finire il mio.

In parte il problema è di tempo, in parte, no.

Questo blog vuole essere un esperimento, cercherò in futuro di integrare questo blog al mio vecchio lavoro e di farne una cosa sola.
Per ora la mia preoccupazione è eliminare ogni possibile scusa riducendo al minimo i tempi necessari a bloggare.
Se anche questo tentativo fallirò … evidentemente non sono fatto per raccontarmi in questa forma o devo ancora lavorare sul blocco che mi impedisce di scrivere.

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That was my first, and I hope last, post in Italian.
I decided to keep my blog in English, I explained the reason here.