The rules from the group:

1. We want people to offer just one image to be printed as an art print.
2. Then invite people to bid in the comments. The highest bidder on the set date will win the auction and the print.
3. The photographer will pay for the print to be produced and postage to the winning bidder.
4. The winning bidder will go and donate their winning amount to the specified charity and take a screen grab of the confirmation of their donation and email to the photographer for proof that they’ve paid.

And this is the photo I decided to put:

Nikon D3000

Finally, after long long time I was thinking to, I decided to buy a reflex camera: in the battle Canon vs. Nikon I decided to choose the second, since I had already a compact camera which made me very happy. My choice was the Nikon D3000: still have to learn how to manage the thousands features it offers, I am already happy by the quality of the camera – and the big difference from a compact one.

I’ve also made a set in Flickr called Photo Experiments where I will put some weird/nice/experimental shots. You can see the pictures below or take a look at my Flickr page to see more.

It’s really interesting to see how little have been the changes during these many years in those places: it looks like history has been freezed over those mountains, which in Baduel’s shots still keeps the same beauty they had one century ago.

There were the photographer and other guests today, first day of the exhibition, and they said interesting things: it’s incredible to think that Vittorio Sella could bring with him just 120 plates, which means he could take just 120 shots – madness nowadays with digital cameras. Baduel, however, talked about how hard was in 2001 and 2003 to go to those places, due to the hard situation and the presence of bandits in the zones – situation changed now – and said that, of all the places he visited, caucasus is the most beautiful.

The exhibition is hosted by the “Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei” in corso Magenta 63, Milano and can be visited for free from 10am to 7pm until Friday April, 24th. I really suggest you to go and take a look to those photos.

Sei volte nel Caucaso Georgiano

October is Breast Cancer Awareness month and if you add your pink photos to this group you can help to raise up to €30,000 for local charities.

For each pink photo you add to www.flickr.com/groups/pink2008, Yahoo! for Good will donate €1, up to a maximum of €30,000. We will split the total equally between 5 charities in UK, Germany, France, Spain and Italy.

• In the UK Cancer Research UK will use this donation to fund breast cancer research.
• In Germany Deutsche Krebshilfe will use this donation to fund a breast cancer project.
• In France Association Le Cancer du sein, parlons en ! will use this donation to fund screening.
• In Spain FEFOC will use this donation to fund information about prevention and detection.
• In Italy LILT will use this donation to fund breast cancer research.

You can add 5 pink photos a day during October, so please think about making a month long commitment to sharing your pink photos!

It’s a very nice initiative: I’ve posted some photos in the group and some of them can be seen here:

This was the result that day: few days later I received an email from NowPublic, a partecipatory news network, asking me the permission to use my photo for one of their stories; I agreed, and here’s the result.