
Maurizio
Zanetti
š®š¹ Italy
42
Selected photos in 2024
33
Selected photos in 2023
23
Selected photos in 2022
25
Selected photos in 2021
4
Selected photos in 2018
TOP5 photographer in 2024
TOP3 photographer in 2023
TOP3 photographer in 2022
TOP3 photographer in 2021
TOP10 photographer in 2018
With us
6 years
I shot photographs from when I was 6 years old. I played with Threepenny machines up to 18. Then I discovered the reflex camera (first an old Zenit E, then Olympus OM1, OM2). I discovered the black and white (the mythical Ilford), the dark room. From 20 years to 45 I snapped, developed and printed thousands of photos. Especially dance, theatre, portraits. Almost always black and white. When digital arrived I was very wary. Then, slowly, I discovered the advantages in the use of digital cameras and, sometimes, Photoshop. I'm not a pro but (I think) a good amateur and today, 68 years old, I'm still taking hundreds of photos with Olympus OM d ā E-M 10 Mark III. I always love dance, theatre and portraits. But also the landscape, reportage and above all street photography. And now that I have the iPhone, sometimes with Hipstamatic app, I discovered a wonderful chance to take pictures whenever I want. Iām on FLICKR like Maurizio Zanetti ā mauzzan https://www.flickr.com/
Winning photos
The Crests of Monte Grolla, the Lessinia plateau, just over half an hour's drive from Verona. What is the summer is a prairie populated by grazing cows these days is beautifully covered by almost a meter of snow ...
42nd CollectionSacred and profane in Venice, Castello district, a few hundred meters from the Arsenale. An ancient capital and the old communist section coexist to the delight of the few tourists who pass through these streets of the Venice of the Venetians.
41st CollectionThe ancient defense walls surround Verona. Stratifications that start from the Roman era, cross that off the Scaligera lordship, arrive at the Austrian occupation. A few hundred meters from the crowded streets of the center, a splendid path crosses the Parco delle Mura.
41st CollectionChristmas in Venice means being able to find a shared Christmas tree in a small square in the Castello district, far from the tourist flow. The photo dates back to the end of December 2018. A memory that the current pandemic makes even clearer. A wish that everything can be as before as soon as possible.
40th CollectionGoing around the street with the smartphone in your hands or in any case at hand is always an opportunity to transform an image into a photograph. And if the walk takes place in the most beautiful city in the world, Venice, the only problem is to have a spare battery, because the opportunities to take a photo are endless. Here we are in the area of the Ostello di Santa Fosca, Cannaregio, once a convent of the Church of the Servants of Mary. Of which some walls remain around a splendid courtyard.
40th CollectionThe advantage of always having your smartphone with you is not in being reachable for a phone call but in being able to have a decent camera. So it can happen that you walk along the path along the walls of Verona at an hour when the setting sun gives lights and shadows on an old wall. And an emotion becomes photography.
39th CollectionContrada Cenise di Sotto, a group of beautifully restored ancient houses respecting what they were. With a small museum that reminds passers-by of the culture and work of those who lived in the past in those houses. To get there, take a small road that starts from Bosco Chiesanuova, about thirty kilometers from Verona. It is nice to go there in every season but it is with autumn that the colors literally leave you breathless.
39th CollectionBetween Malga Lessinia and Castelberto, Lessinia Regional Park, trenches were dug among the ancient rocks during the First World War. Today they can be visited, with the silence and respect they deserve.
38th CollectionHard to get up at dawn in late summer, the sun still rises very early. But if you do it and you are by the sea on the Conero Riviera, with a little luck you can find this beautiful landscape.
38th CollectionThere is nothing to do: you can no longer see the mists of the past, the ones that even in the city center prevented you from seeing a few meters away. Today, it will be due to the rise in temperatures, more mists than fogs in the center. However, they give magic to known landscapes. As in the Roman bridge Ponte Pietra.
38th CollectionThe Adige river gathers the historic center of Verona in a bend. From Ponte Nuovo you have a nice glance: on the left the church of Sant'Anastasia, on the right on the hill surrounded by cypresses Castel San Pietro, in the center, small little, Ponte Pietra. The clouds of a splendid day in late summer are the outline.
37th CollectionSirolo, Conero Riviera, San Michele beach. Before the tourists arrive you can still admire the compositions left the previous day. Small constructions of land art, without pretending to be...
37th CollectionThey call them "the crests of Monte Grolla". It is a path that runs along an overhang on the velle di Revolto, Lessinia Regional Park, less than an hour's drive from Verona.
36th CollectionThe night and its colors as always give new shots for the beautiful Verona. In the foreground the ruins of the Roman Theater. Overlooking the ancient "Ponte Pietra" and the bell tower of the cathedral.
35th CollectionAn hour's drive from Verona, on the Lessinia plateau, a path runs alongside a cliff for a few kilometers. They are the "crests of Mount Grolla", a masterpiece of nature in which it is easy to find chamois and marmots. And also the "lung-ta", the Tibetan prayer flags, spread in the wind by some hikers.
35th CollectionA classic view of Verona from Ponte Nuovo towards the Church of Sant'Anastasia and Castel San Pietro. Waiting for the storm coming.
34th CollectionA stone's throw from Campo Santa Margherita, Banksy has given his murals to Venice and the world. Murals that, sometimes happen in Venice, are partially covered by high water.
34th CollectionWaiting for the first tourists, the newly painted beach cabins give a touch of color. And a taste of the old holidays. Photo was taken in Sottomarina (Chioggia) with iPhone7, no post-production.
33rd CollectionTo say that Venice is a unique city in the world is all too trivial. But it is only with his usual acquaintance that we can discover, step by step, corner by corner, the incredible beauty of his daily life: clothes hung out to dry between home and home, the boats moored, the colors that are reflected in the canals. A simple but perhaps always new beauty ... The photo was taken with iPhone 7, no post-production.
32nd CollectionDozza, a small village on the Apennines between Tuscany and Romagna, is a treasure chest with entirely frescoed houses. Since 1965 it has hosted the Biennale of the Painted Wall, with artists from all over the world who continue to transform it into a true open-air art gallery. Photo taken with iPhone 4 during a visit of mine back in 2012.
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