Giacomo Jack Proserpio - photography

Snowly

2012-02-19T09:14:00.002+01:00

Well I can say that this was the first time I had ever shot in the snow. It was also the first time I was using my new Canon 24-70 f2.8 L and I hadn't buy a polarizing filter yet, so the photos aren't so great but I would like to share them with you, anyway.

They're without any watermark or logo, that's because I'm working on a new one for the 2012 :)

Andrea Paternò

2012-02-06T19:57:00.000+01:00

Hi everyone!

It's a quick post without any of my photos, but I'm happy to share with you an interview of a really special person for me, Andrea Paternò.

I really admire him and support him as much as he do the same with me.

He has talent to sell and he's a really good person!

Take a look at his interview!!

http://www.triridemtb.com/the-photographer-andrea-paterno/

Btw I'm thinking of some little changes to do on this blog, asap I'll test them!

Tornantini w/ marmotte team!!

2012-01-05T16:57:00.002+01:00

Some days ago I was shooting with my friends in a small track full of jumps and corners made by themselves.
It's a fun track but it's quite short so the shots aren't so various and I hadn't so much time to post them in a better way!!

Btw, actually I'm busy with a lot of work so I hope to shoot soon again!!

Those days I'm on the mountain with my girlfriend and her family ti skiing and this was the first time for me, started two days ago with the snowboard and I'm so excited!! (ok, that was and useless info, but I'm so excited that I'm telling it to everyone I know :D )

WC Val di Sole - part II

2011-12-26T12:05:00.004+01:00

Last week, I was working on a present and then I found few cool photos I made at the WC round here in Italy, Val di Sole.

I'm happy to share them with you, once again :)

Hope you like them!!

Lights, fog and clouds

2011-11-14T19:29:00.001+01:00

Piani d'Erna is a small village on the mountain over Lecco.

My girlfriend's grandpa has a small house here and sometimes we go there for some days of pure relax. Near Halloween, I know it was some days ago, we went there for 3 days.

(Un)luckily the weather wasn't of the best: fog, clouds and cold but I took some shots anyway :)

Mendrisio pump track

2011-10-05T20:57:00.000+02:00

Last saturday afternoon I went to Mendrisio, Switzerland, to shoot some photos with my friend.

It was Franz, Die, Mario and of course me.

This was the first time we had been there but this spot was pretty awesome so we'll go back soon!
We didn't have much time to ride, because of the trafic we found on the way to Como, but the sun went down pretty late.

Unfortunately I had problems with my new lens, a Sigma 24-70 f2.8 :( its autofocus is not working fast enought. Sad. Luckly I also had with me the 70-200 that works a little bit better on this aspect =)

I really can't wait to go there again! It's simply a pump track really well done by Claudio Caluori and his crew of Velosolution.ch. It's located in the middle of the village, next to the school. Near the track, there are also some cool street spots for bmx!

The track is free and open to everyone that wants to try to pump his bike, so you can also see families or young guys riding!! The only things you have to do are pay attention, wear your helmet and have a lot of fun :D

World Cup finals - Val di Sole

2011-09-15T20:52:00.000+02:00

Here we are with the world cup finals gallery!!!

I was in VdS from friday and it was so funny. I found the same weather that was in Pila, and quite the same people :)

I can't wait for the next year!!!

IXS cup Pila!

2011-09-09T00:14:00.000+02:00

I know, I'm late. Too late. But trust me, I'm fucking busy of work that I haven't any time to upload some photos or something, I'm sorry.

There it is a report from the IXS european cup, Pila's round.

I was there for three days and the only thing I remember from them is: dust. It was so much. Everywhere, in my mouth, in my eyes, on my clothes and of course, also on my Canon! One day the shutter button was also stopped for some dust that slided under it! However it was an awesome race! Sunny days, hot weather, cool people, a good track and some good photos.

You can see a part of them on th Ancillotti's blog: http://ancillotti-team.blogspot.com/2011/08/galleria-foto-pila.html

the VAN party VOL. II

2011-08-07T20:01:00.000+02:00

It was many days ago, but I'm so much busy with the work and my girlfriend that I hadn't enough time to make and upload photos.
I know that the photos aren't so much, and they're pretty the same composition, but the rain was over so the riding was not so much. However I like them and I hope you like them too! :)

Poira, day 2

2011-06-18T12:50:00.000+02:00

Last post was an experiment of low saturation for the photos.
Now I would let you see how the photos could have been with another editing. The photos are different, but they are quite similar with the some you can find in Poira, day 1.

Poira, day 1

2011-06-14T16:00:00.000+02:00

Last weekend I was in Poira, a small group of little houses on the mountain over Morbegno, Valtellina.
I was there because of a birthday party of one of my friends, Serena. However, I obviously take a chance to get some photos.

Some fisheye -ing - Furb party vol. 4 !!

2011-05-23T21:19:00.001+02:00

Saturday afternoon I went to Mandello, where there was the Furb party.

Furb is the local crew of Mandello, that organise events, parties and contest every year. This week end they had organized a skate and bmx's jam in the skate park and for the evening, a concert near the park.

There were many skaters, but also some bmxer like Mitch, Ale Froio, Martin and the little Simone.

Check out some shots, hope you enjoy them!

Toys Go Wild !!

2011-05-13T23:52:00.002+02:00

April, 17th I was in Milan to a creative workshop during the Elita festival Wild in the City.

This event created by a cool friend of mine, a professionist I value so much, Ricardo Ramos Lazcano and it was pretty interesting.

It was centred on plush toy art. An art movement based on toys maded by cloth, plush and other textiles stuffed and than decored with stripes, drawings and all the gadget you can find and recycle.

Guests to this event were two toy artists: Davide Mancosu and Teresa Morelli, Matteo Donini (Italy's main toy art gallerer) and Igor Zanti an art critic and IED (european school of design) teacher. While the guests were talking about the story and the evolution of this kind of art, the audience was building, sewing and painting their toys!

Unfortunately I hadn't enough time to shoot photos and make my own plush :(

Many thanks to Ricardo Ramos Lazcano: ramosrick@gmail.com

SWISS part 2

2011-05-09T17:54:00.000+02:00

A little bit late, but I'm so fucked with the school.

However... Let's come back in Switzerland for IXS cup part 2.

Sunday morning I woke up pretty seized up because I sleeped in the back of my car, that is quite small :(

However, after a small breakfast at the finish area of the track, I climbed up again.

I decided not to go up at the start just because it take too much time, so I stopped at the rocky garden and a couple of corners up.

After the morning practice, there were the finals in the afternoon and I slowly walked down to the finish line, where I followed the end of the run of the fastest racers.

Emilie Siegentaler was able to get the first position in the woman elite class, despite a crash at the bottom section of the track. Tahnee Seagrave got the fastest time of the women also if she's U17.

In the man, Markus Pekoll (AUT) got the first position, the Aussie Joshua Button came second. The italian champion Lorenzo Suding followed him by 0.277 seconds only. Fourth Marcel Beer and fifth Brook Mac Donald.

SWISS, WHAT A WEEKEND!! part 1

2011-05-04T01:36:00.002+02:00

This weekend I was in Switzerland for the IXS european cup on Monte Tamaro.
At the beginning I was travelling with my friends Die, Franz e Mario, but they had some problem with the federation fee, so I had to travel alone. No probs.
Friday I was at school for 8 - and I'll repeat it EIGHT hours because of our timetable, so I hadn't too much time to prepare the bags and backpacks so at soon as I arrived at home, I had prepared everything.
Saturday morning at 5am the alarm rang up, I had my breakfast and I was just ready for the car! Easy!
First song of the weekend? Clearence Clear Water Revival, On the road. I absolutely love this song and every time I hear it, it reminds me at the Tri-ride first video of the last wc in Maribor. It makes me feel like "Whoha! Let's start a new experience!"
The travel was pretty easy, two ours of music and relax driving to Rivera, the nearest village of the uplift.
I arrived at the parking and the weather was not the better you would for a downhill race. Pretty cloudy, windy and rainy, COOL!
Soon I met the friends of the team Biciaio; they're good friends: easy, funny, friendly (how many y i'm using today?? :D)
The practice session started at 8am, so there's not so much time to talk, so I started licterally climbing the mountain. As seams Champery, here the mountain is soo steep, and walking is not so easy.
The track was cool; it has steep and technical section with slippery roots and rocks that with every rider became worst and worster, between fast part where there was some useless mud...
Saturday morning was for the practice, and in the afternoon there was the qualifying round.
Nick Beer manage to get the first place, as his teammate Emilie Siegenthaler.
After the qualifying round, I started selecting the photos,while I was wating for the dinner, offered me by the Biciaio's friends (Thank u sooo much!!) and about the 9.30pm I was just sleeping in my car!

Soon the part 2!

Here, as usual, some photos of saturday!

Valgre, again!

2011-04-21T23:12:00.001+02:00

This morning I was again in Valgreghentino, where I met Mario, Giovanni, Stefano and Cristiano.

I took some photos on the track, not so much happy about them just because I know that my 18-55 isn't a good lens, otherwise is a quite bad one. It's buit with only plastic components and also the lens's glass is quinte cheap and so is not a good quality of glass.

Buuuuut i have this stuff, and no money, so I have to satisfied myself and wait for a job.

Mario needed a poser photo!

The second jump.

Same jump but hitted as a hip; rider: Ste.

Also Giovanni took the hip.

Giovanni step-upping the Mario's Scarab X !

Whip it Mario!!

On the third double!

Second jump, different point of view!

Mitch's photoshooting @ Valgre

2011-04-16T15:35:00.003+02:00

Last Thursday I went to the bmx race track in Valgreghentino, a small village that is becomed famous among us riders, just because of its track, the pump track, the trail and also because lives there our friend, dh racer and 4x champion, Mario Milani.
Btw, I was at the track just because I was meeting one of my friends, Michele " Mitch " Virdis.
He's a cool rider, he's young and is soo crazy. Is happened many times that we were talking about taking some photos here and there, but we never was able doing it for months and finally, we did it. Unfortunately there wasn't a good light, but we put together some good shots.

Mandello's Sunshine

2011-04-11T21:31:00.003+02:00

I went in Mandello many times.Here are living some good friends, the best friends I can say, of mine.

They're cool, young and intelligent people but another thing I love of Mandello, is the lake.
It make me feel comfy, at home, welcome.

Sometimes happens that it's easy for me sleep in this small city and usually i've my Canon in the backpack so I use to join the water and get some photos. I really like them. I don't know why, maybe just because they're quite similar but at the same time I can discover some little aspects that I never founded before.
Here wa have some pics I take few days ago, let me know what do you think about them!!

The first one was taken at one of the many little wharfs on the lake.

The first ship I shoot, I remember I was strucked by the reflection of the sun in the water and the contrast made by the green paint and brown wood.

Bokeh on another little ship.

Third - I promise this is the last one - ship.

A smart park near the port. There was a cool sun light.

I love spring and She cames to us all!

Sange Sunny Sunday

2011-04-10T09:20:00.003+02:00

Let's start with some photos of friends taked in our favourite trail, the San Genesio track #2.
Was last sunday when Mario called me for organize the afternoon.
Nothing is better than take some photos with your friends, in a cool spot, with the right light and the riding style too.
So i joined them after a birthday party in my home, and in just a hour we were able to get some cool pics.

I was so excited making these photos, because I'd just bought a Sigma 70-200 f 2.8 and i would like to test it. I will let you see the results, hope you like them!

Die was trying a different line up on the rocks but somethings went wrong

First cool corner, Giovanni

Same corner, Ste

Die once again

Die, again

Mario

Corner jump with Franz

Die, I could say that was my favourite subject this time

Andrea pulling up...

...and jump down!