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Regarding the seasons:
always follow the official paths
well highlighted by the white • winter to take pictures
of winter sports;
and red signs of the CAI. You
must not forget to bring trail • summer for sporting
maps and a GPS. events and folklore;
• spring for the blooms;
You always have to
remember to carry extra • autumn for the
batteries. We often have to use extraordinary colours
minimal equipment such as a that the larch trees
take on when they
24-105mm lens and extension change colour;
rings for close-up photos, due
to space and weight reasons. • and, of course, all the
A small compact waterproof days of the year for
cuisine and hospitality!
camera can be useful in case of
rain and other extreme weather With the pictures that I
situations. After the advent am showing with this article, The rare Alpine Raponzolo
of “AI” we can easily replace I have tried to give an idea of
the tripod with the use of a Genziana punctata and the Pale di San Martino in the background
sensitivity of 25,000 ISO. the beauty of these mountains,
of the fauna that can be
To take pictures of the encountered, of the people
wonderful phenomenon of the and of the culture that can be
“enrosadira” you should study useful to photographers who
the times of sunrise and sunset want to visit the “Dolomiti”
for the dates you decide to go. Mountains. But primarily
A lot of patience is required. you have to notice that
The phenomenon begins these environments must be
imperceptibly, then the colour respected for the rarity of many
slowly increases in intensity plants (you don’t have to touch
until it reaches maximum them!) and for the fragility of
splendour, which only lasts a these mountain giants which,
few seconds. beyond their grandeur, grow

on easily degradable rocks
and are exposed to merciless
Articles Fawn Fedaia with Marmolada over the years, can destroy and Articles
atmospheric agents which,

transform places. I am thinking,
for example, of two dramatic
episodes: the “Vaia” storm,
which devastated hundreds
of hectares of forest between
October and November 2018
and the collapse of Trephor, in
June 2004, one of the spires
of the splendid “Cinque Torri”
(“Five towers”) in the “Picchi del
5 Torri”.
When should we go? I
prefer the middle seasons;
so, in my opinion, you should
avoid summer and winter due
to the crowding.
Dolomite marathon during the summer My photos aim to show the Autumn from Prato Piazza - first light

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