A trabucco is a massive construction built from wood consisting of a platform anchored to the rock by large logs, jutting out into the sea. From this platform, two long arms stretch out suspended above the water, supporting a huge, narrow-meshed, net.
The Trabucchi in Chioggia are still functional, and in some of those you can even eat, as in a restaurant.
Hasselblad X1D2 + 21mm with long exposition. I’ve used a 10 stop ND filter plus a 2stop progressive one to balance the sea and the sky.
It had been a long time since I had been able to organize a night out to take a landscape photo at dawn with my medium format camera. Fortunately, Chioggia was an excellent opportunity, not only from the point of view of the gentle weather I found, given that we are in full autumn, but also from the scenographic point of view. Trebuchets are fascinating structures of a time that no longer belongs to ours. The very cold morning made the air clean and delicate. The delicacy of the landscape and the slender structure of the trebuchet and its nets, created a perfect balance, suggestive and calm at the same time.
Taking landscape pictures it’s my preferred form of meditation.
