Richard Pelletier's Photography Journal

{ writer + photographer }

Landscape Photography

private altar, civita di bagnoregio

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black and white photo of civita di bagnoregio
altar, civita di bagnoregio

richard pelletier https://www.snappysan.com

Civita di Bagnoregio is a hilltown about an hour north of Rome. So beautiful, it’s sacred. Think of a hilltown as a cake that rises from the valley floor. The town sits on top and there are walking paths (now you’re walking along the outside surface of the cake) that wind all the way around and down to the valley floor. On the trail was this private altar which is a kind of cave, carved from the hillside. I shot this from behind a locked steel gate.

“You may have the universe if I may have Italy.” – Verdi

the nymph of balch pond

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the nymph of balch pond
the nymph of balch pond

I have meant what I have done. Or – I have often meant what I have done. Or – I have sometimes meant what I have done. Or – I have tried to mean what I was doing. (Jasper Johns) I confess here and now – when I was bobbing around in a canoe back in the summer of 1998, circling my prey again and again, I didn’t know that this was what I meant until today, October 19, 2010.

the anderson valley

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In the Anderson Valley

I don’t know what it is, but the Anderson Valley, which lies north of San Francisco, and about an hour from the Pacific, is some sort of zone of pure magic and incomparable beauty. Whenever I am there, I start to vibrate from the intense and intimate beauty of the place. In the early 80’s I made a series of photographs of a few vineyards and wineries. Memory is fickle; I can’t pinpoint this location.