"I am Darrel Standing. Very soon they will come to get me to hang me. In the meantime, in these pages I will express my opinion by writing about different times and places."
from the incipit of The Tramp of the Stars by Jack London
This page is the site's compass, a collection of the latest articles published in chronological order from all sections, to navigate through the latest news.
These considerations arose while I was reading a book on art collecting (the catalog of the exhibition The Pizzi collection, a seventeenth-century picture gallery - FMR editore) and while I was reading a sort of examination on the psychology of the collector, I asked myself: but then, is photography also in a certain sense a form of collecting? And...
Rummaging through the old photos buried in the memories of the hard disks, this image of the small station in my town, Collecchio, came back into my hands, with the flowers and the warm shades of the late afternoon. Now that spring is upon us again, this photo made me go back in time, to the scents and colors of...
Myths tell us that in a distant past they were "one", then something or someone divided us, created a deep fracture in ourselves, tearing apart our unity. Woman and man were created, divided, eternally searching for the lost unity, and then in succession, in a cascade, an infinite series of divisions and fractures, starting with that between spirit...
We all have "dark sides", black thoughts, anxieties and unknown inner territories to explore, we must evoke them, know them, pull them out, to be able to dominate them and not simply be guided along illusory paths that lead only to perennial dissatisfaction.
It is not painful to be without what you have ceased to crave.
"Without "chaos" there is no knowledge. Without frequent renunciation of reason there is no progress."
A semi-deserted city, unusual for a Saturday afternoon. It seems like the middle of the night, yet it is only Saturday afternoon, in the historic center of a surreal Parma. A grandiose monument, raised to the memory of an equally grandiose fellow citizen, relegated to a secluded corner of the city. The few souls that appear on the horizon seem...
The vampire draws strength from the fact that no one wants to believe in his existence.
A gallery of immersive images that can be navigated at 360 ° where I illustrate some of the abandoned places I have visited and photographed with this compelling and captivating technique.
A small crystal of probable Barite (size about 4 mm) stands out against a background of Calcite crystals. Sample found in the clayey badlands of Rubbiano, near Fornovo Taro. Nature always surprises, even hiding its treasures inside the rocks., In the deep darkness of the bowels of Mother Earth.
The flowers in the gardens are sad, like the animals in the zoo, they put showing oneself for an ephemeral complacency of others. The wild flower, which bravely grows in lonely and hostile places, without any attention, it is a fantastic creature: it flaunts elegantly his very slow dance in a wonderfully empty theater. It give to the world a...
A little further downstream from the town of Roccamurata, a large black rock, an offshoot of the imposing Groppo di Gorro above, stands in the way of the waters of the Taro, which thus find themselves facing a very tenacious intruder. The waters, not at all intimidated, have smoothed and sculpted these rocks, until they are smooth as glass,...
Walking along the paths of "my" river in these beautiful late winter days, I met a person I hadn't seen for a long time, he too had a camera hanging from his neck: "well, as long as there's this around his neck it's a good sign", I exclaimed pointing at the camera, and meaning by this the passion for photography...
The ruins of the Gusaliggio manor in Val Mozzola, (in some ancient documents referred to as Gusaleggio, Gusalicchio or Sisaligio), are perhaps among the most fascinating in the Parma area, erected on a dizzying rocky spur, overlooking the Mozzola stream below. The overhang is impressive and exciting at the same time, which is why you need to be...
"You don't know the miracles that Nature can perform, just as the learned don't know either"
If you like this site and like my work, you can support also offering me just a coffee ...
ARTICLES ARCHIVE & BLOGS
The older articles and posts progressively move from this site to the various blogs and photographic portals, in particular to the Tumblr blogs, where they are archived and preserved. To be able to navigate Tumblr easily, I recommend subscribing to the blog, it costs nothing and involves nothing, just the opportunity to freely use all the contents without limits or restrictions. I would like to point out that Tumblr and the other portals on which I publish are external and independent from Il Viaggiatore senza Meta, I am a their user like you, I do not track and do not collect any personal data, other than emails for users who want to register for accessing reserved pages. Registering for Il Viaggiatore senza Meta and Tumblr are distinct and independent things.
THE AIMLESS TRAVELER BLOG
PARMESAN AND ITALIAN CASTLES
GEOLOGY
BOOKS & READINGS
ITALIAN RIVERS
TAROT MUSEUM
support:
Thank you all so much for your interest.
>>> The Aimless Traveler <<<
by Andrea Franchi - all rights reserved
info snail ilviaggiatoresenzameta.it
Warnings: everything you find on this site is the fruit of my imagination and my personal opinions, here you will not find news, information, advice, suggestions or anything else, but only and exclusively my personal opinions and the story of my personal experiences. This site is essentially a monologue made public, my personal organizational agenda. No one is required to follow me, to share, to experience, to accept or to believe uncritically. In fact, I strongly advise against doing so.
This is a genuine human creation and therefore imperfect, no part of this site has been generated with AI tools