The Adventures of A Photographer - Peter Lindberg

Stretching after exercise – Pescara Lungomare

A lot of people take care of their exercise needs along the beach of Pescara. Pescara has a great beach and an even better promenade. Lungomare is a common street name along the Adriatic coast. And there is a reason – people love their promenade, and they are proud of it! Since many of the cities along the Adriatic coast were leveled, turned into gravel, eradicated during WW2; the Lungomare is what they have to show (bold exaggeration). Lungomare Pescara is well worth a stroll.

© Peter Lindberg 2013

Monte Velino: The Route Rome to Pescara

The Appenines, pretty impressing mountains running through Italy from north to south. If you drive from Rome to Pescara (on the Adriatic Sea) you will pass this place about halfway on your route. A gas-station and pizza-joint perfectly located for a view of Monte Velino. And a slice of pizza of course. This joint has pretty good pizza. This the A25, but you could also take the northern path around L’Aquila on A24. Then you will pass under the Gran Sasso massive in a very long tunnel. And under Campo Imperatore, where Mussolini once was held prisoned… If you drive the A24 instead you will pass L’Aquila and Teramo and reach the Adriatic sea north of Pescara, at Giulianova. © Peter Lindberg 2013

Colonia Ettore Motta – Left To Decay

Colonia Ettore Motta in Marina di Massa  was built for Gruppo Edison as a recreation-site for company employes. During World War 2 it was used a s a hospital and after different twists and turns it is now in decay with unclear ownership and responsibilities. Read more here.

Unfortunately the site was closed off when I was there in March this year. As I understand people tend to open up from time to time, allowing urban explorers to enter the area. We will se what next visit in the future brings. 😉

© Peter Lindberg 2013

Off-season in Marina di Massa

Marina di Massa. Off season. March. No-one cleans up after the winter just yet. Shit everywhere. Not so shiny now, right? The people in SUV:s stay far away. So does their money. I don’t miss them. Prefer the shit. 😉

No offense, but beaches are best without too much people. And the amount of scrap that blows in from the sea should be a reminder about how we treat our planet. Throw your garbage where it belongs, and recycle what is recyclable!

© Peter Lindberg 2013

In Italy…

Vacations are over for this year…

© Peter Lindberg 2013

Italians have their vacation mostly in August. Schools start around the 15th of september so then it is over for sure. Everything closes. Perfect for Scandinavians like me that like the beach to myself, more or less. This shot was taken in Giulianova, about 40 km north of Pescara, in the Teramo region of Abruzzo. But the scene could be fetched pretty much anywhere along the  Italian coastline. For Abruzzo it can be said that here we have almost no foreign vacationers all summer.That means better restaurants and people not being fed up with foreigners!

This is a photograph from my new series of images from Italy. This project is just starting and everything should be considered “work in progress”. Stay tuned for more soon and later. It is all about behind the facade, when the season is over and the sun-umbrrellas are tucked away….

A nice entrance.

Isn’t that what we all try to make? This house has one. In my opinion at least. I like these typical 50’s houses. Don’t miss out on the rest of the pieces at my homepage: Pieces of Sweden

Pieces of Sweden is a long-term project of mine, and is about showing little bits of Sweden that people often (sometimes not so often) walk or drive past, look at but don’t see. There is a hidden beauty even in the less beautiful and these bits of reality often makes me think and fantasize about what might have been going on there in the past.

© Peter Lindberg 2013