On the last issue of this German magazine you can find my 10 pages reportage on the Bosnian pines of Pollino National Park (Southern Italy). Pollino is a special place for me because I went there the first time when I was a child, and it had strong importance on shaping my passion for wilderness and mountains! See the pictures in my gallery “The Garden of the Gods“.

www.geniusloci.photo: finally we start! A nature photography blog where discover a new picture every day. Fourteen contributors each one from his own area, from the far edges of Italy and Europe. I will contribute with pictures from Andalucía (Spain), and sometimes also from my native area: Salento (Italy). Follow us here and have a look at the description of our project, which is available also in English.

MONTPHOTO, International Competition of Nature Photography: one finalist picture in the category “Environmental report” and 6 more selected ones in different categories. Check out the galleries here. The picture depicts a captive Chamelion imprisoned in a cage in the Marrakech market. You can see it in my gallery “Only one planet“. I hope this picture will raise more awareness on the illegal wildlife trade that takes place in Morocco.

I will have the pleasure to give a slideshow and a talk on Patagonia at the Asferico Fotofestival 2014 , on the 2nd of May in Comacchio, Italy

8th International Asferico Nature Photo Competition: two commended pictures: “Kelp goose” in Birds category and “Alligator” in “Other animals” category. Have a look at the results here and browse my galleries “Patagonia esenciàl” and “Alligators” to see more pictures on the same topics.

Finally available, a selection of the pictures from my journey in Patagonia, following an ideal travel from the Atlantic to the Pacific ocean. Enjoy this new gallery!

A Condor picture that I took in Patagonia has been used as cover of the prestigious scientific journal Ecology Letters. You can see the picture in my Patagonia gallery and the cover in my publications page.

My Sahara picture story has been published by Asferico magazine! Visit my gallery “of sand and stars” to see some of the published pictures.

Now I have also a Facebook page, please visit it and give me your “like”! Stay tuned because I will update there the most recent pictures from my current stay in Patagonia.

I added a new gallery including the pictures collected during my expedition in the Swedish tundra during june/july 2011. Have a look at “a summer in the tundra“!

This new book features several pictures of mine, including the one on the cover! It depicts the rocky coast of Sant’Andrea, on the Adriatic sea.

5th International Asferico Nature Photo Competition: for the third year in a row I got a picture “Highlight”, this time my alligator “swimming” in the clouds” in the section “Other animals”. See the other winning pictures here.

New galleries from my expeditions in Morocco: one is about the Sahara desert and he other one concerns Berber macaques.

A picture of mine is the cover of the Italian magazine Meridiani, in a special issue about my region. Other picture illustrate the articles inside.

4th International Asferico Nature Photo Competition: my tree fern from Honduras got a “Highlight” in the section “Flowers and plants”.

Two events have been scheduled for the next months: an exhibition at “Officine Cantelmo”, in Lecce (Italy) at the end of March and a slideshow in Vila-Real (Spain) during the “Simposio Internacional de Naturaleza y Fotografía”, on the 17th of april.

Back from a new expedition in Morocco with my friend Rocco Tiberti! The fennec fox has been one of the highlights! See it on my picture of the month page.

New gallery: alligators of the Everglades (Florida, USA). Moreover, new pictures in many of the other galleries.

Some of my Eleonora’s falcons pictures have been published on the Spanish edition of National Geographic and on the Spanish magazine Quercus, within the framework of articles illustrating my Phd research. See them in my publications page.

3rd International Asferico Nature Photo Competition: one picture “Highlight” in the section “Flowers and plants” and six more in the final stage. See it in my Sahara gallery.

My images from Morocco are featured in an article in the German magazine Naturfoto prepared with my colleague Bruno D’Amicis.

The new website is online! Many new photos have been uploaded too, including a picture story about the biodiversity of Cusuco national Park (Honduras).

The website has been updated with Morocco and Eleonora’s falcons galleries. I am leaving for Honduras, where I will work for Operation Wallacea. I hope to come back with loads of good pictures of tropical wildlife!

My reportage about Prespa lakes (Greece) has been published by the Italian magazine AQVA. Visit my publications page to see its opening page.