My name is Valter Binotto and I live in Possagno (Italy), a small village at the foot of Mount Grappa. Most of my photographs are taken “just a few steps from home”. Not because distant nature doesn’t fascinate me—quite the opposite. It’s the proximity that allows me to be constantly in the field, to follow the rhythm of the seasons, and to observe how the landscape changes from one day to the next. My territory is my open‑air laboratory: Mount Grappa, the first great mountain rising from the Venetian plain; the Asolo hills; and the two rivers that frame this area, the Piave and the Brenta. After years of exploring these places, I have become an attentive witness, a knowledgeable observer, and, over time, a promoter of their natural beauty through photography. With the images captured close to home, I have received recognition in major international wildlife photography competitions. At the Wildlife Photographer of the Year, I earned two commendations (2011 and 2013), and in 2016 I won the category dedicated to plant life. More recently, I won the landscape category at the international BioPhoto Contest. My photographic obsession is to reveal what is normally invisible. I pursue this through special techniques such as time‑lapse, which shows the slow passage of time, and infrared photography, which allows me to capture natural phenomena that the human eye cannot perceive. My work is a continuous search: transforming the unseen into a visual experience, blending technical precision with a sense of wonder.