Frozen Trees of the Arctic: Photography by Niccolò Bonfadini
Niccolò Bonfadini
is a young photographer living in Monza, in the northern part of Italy.
Since he was a child he has always been fascinated by Nature. Some
years ago he discovered his passion for photography and since then he
has started traveling intensively with his camera. For him nothing is
more fulfilling that being out in the wilderness witnessing a sunrise or
a starry sky. Photography motivates him to get out into Nature more
often, experiencing conditions and places that he wouldn’t probably
have witnessed otherwise. Recently he has started collaborating with a
group of talented photographer for the “Wildvisions Nature Photography”
Project.
In one of Bonfadini's recent series titled “Sentinels
of the Arctic”, the photographer captured images of snow covered
landscape in Finnish Lapland during last winter where temperatures
ranging from -40 to –15 degrees centigrade can completely engulf trees
in solid ice.
“That morning I slept in my tent to watch the sun
rise from the top of a hill; an eerie mist was forming around the
trees, enhancing the mysterious atmosphere”, said Niccolò Bonfadini.
One
of his pictures was selected as a photo of the day published at
APOD-NASA, a project run by NASA along with the Michigan Tech
University.
