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  • Colour,  Daily photo

    Action shot

    January 7, 2013 /

    With a little help of the Fortune, even a non-sport camera proves to be good for (relatively) fast moving subjects.

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    An Early Landscape Photography Attempts

    December 21, 2012

    Mistress Of Puppets

    April 30, 2017

    A Lonely Table

    March 8, 2015
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Street Photography

    Modern Times

    January 6, 2013 /

    A man walks through a square as ever did, and ever will. In the meantime, the world changes.

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    Afternoon’s Mumbling

    August 27, 2013

    In Hoc Signo

    August 20, 2015

    Giorgio Pasotti – Racconti disumani@Teatro Marrucino

    February 28, 2022
  • B&W,  Daily photo

    Beach in black

    January 5, 2013 /

    There is a certain stubbornness in going to the shore at night with a camera and expecting to bring something back other than disappointment. The sea, under moonlight, doesn’t offer you light so much as it withholds it, forcing you to work with the barest scraps. This image was taken under those conditions — no artificial illumination, only the moon high above, its reflection tearing a path across the water. I composed with the reflection as the spine of the frame, letting it run vertically to draw the viewer’s eye from the immediate foreground into the distant horizon. The exposure was a balancing act: enough to reveal the texture of…

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    The Ipad Shooter. Who needs a Nikon D4 anymore?

    November 3, 2013

    Waiting For The Elections

    June 24, 2014

    A Bitter Sweet

    March 23, 2013
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Street Photography

    ChitChat in a sunny day

    January 4, 2013 /

    I saw the two of them before I saw the light. They were already locked in conversation — not animated, but steady, the kind that only happens between people who’ve known each other for years. One leans back, hands in pockets, the other gesturing mid-sentence. Nothing theatrical, no drama. Just the architecture of ordinary talk. What made me lift the camera wasn’t them alone — it was the composition the shadows drew around them. The tree, out of frame, cast itself perfectly on the metal shutter behind. Two vertical lines from the trunk, branches spreading just above the heads. A stage set by sunlight. Geometry by accident. Technically, the exposure…

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    Lunar Network Or Snowy Mountain?

    May 5, 2015

    A Ryanair Aircraft

    August 21, 2018

    Three Sprouts

    May 22, 2022
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Street Photography

    Purple Haze

    January 3, 2013 /

    Early on a winter morning a purple haze…

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    How Nissan Crossing Has Changed Over Time

    December 1, 2025

    Halt!

    December 28, 2017

    Inside the Elevator

    May 9, 2014
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Street Photography

    Out for a ride…

    January 2, 2013 /

    The light was brittle—thin, like the quiet that hangs in the streets after a long, noisy night. New Year’s celebrations had just emptied out, leaving behind a silence filled with expectation and leftover firecracker smoke. I didn’t plan this frame; I was out walking off the heaviness of the night before, camera slung under my coat, when I caught this rider coasting through the city’s near-emptiness. What struck me was the sheer casualness of it. No drama, no destination, just movement. The world still had the sleep in its eyes. The bike and rider sliced through the morning like punctuation—bare, direct. Technically, the exposure leaned toward the soft end. Shadows…

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    Mussels Underwater…

    August 23, 2014

    Comarketing

    October 10, 2019

    A Lighthouse

    October 11, 2023
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Street Photography

    Silent Among Many Voices

    January 1, 2013 /

    This photograph was taken inside a crowded bar, late afternoon, just as daylight began surrendering to the low amber of early evening. It was a warm space, socially speaking—laughter, conversation, the usual clatter of espresso cups and cutlery—but this particular moment stood out for its subtle, emotional dissonance. In the foreground, a young man leans against the table, eyes lowered, expression withdrawn. He’s physically close to others, yet mentally and emotionally absent from the shared space. That’s the tension I was drawn to: proximity without connection. The glass chair’s curvature frames him in a way that feels almost isolating, like a barrier—not physical, but psychological. From a compositional standpoint, I…

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    March 31, 2014
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