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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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