When I go to shoot at dawn, I always try to be fairly sure of the conditions I will find for the shot and how I would like the subject I want to represent. That morning in Rome, there was mist forecast and I wanted to take advantage of it: Rome is not a city where there is ever much mist, even if in recent years this situation has changed a bit.
In any case, as Roman landscape photographers, we are not used to dealing with a typical scenario of lands further north in our area, and when it happens, it is always exciting.
I had long wanted to photograph the landscape around the Salone water tower, which is close to my house. However, shooting it is complicated because it is fenced and not very accessible.
By studying the situation a bit, I managed to find a place from which I would have a nice view of the plateau on which the tower stands (which was built in the 1920s) and serves to signal the point where the Aqua Virgo aqueduct starts (Aqua Virgo brings water to many monuments in the Capital, including Trevi Fountain).
The spectacle of the tower emerging from the fog and whose base cannot be seen struck me a lot, beyond the expectations and hopes I had before arriving: these ancient and modern monuments, scattered throughout the Roman countryside, are, in fact, a kind of mystery for motorists who pass by them every day and the mist covering the tower ultimately represents this sense of uncertainty about what they were and still are.
