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  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Downtown,  Nagasaki,  Osaka,  Photography,  Streets&Squares,  Thoughts,  Tokyo,  Travels,  Yokohama

    Why You Should Only Shoot in Your Backyard (or ‘The Art of Belonging’)

    December 19, 2024 /

    What do these pictures have in common (apart from having been taken in various places in Japan)? No, they don’t have the same look and feel, composition or use of light, nor they convey a particular meaning. What they have in common is that they’re just dull and boring —meaningless, indeed. This picture of the Yokohama’s Chinatown Dragon is hardly different than the others available on the Internet. Initially published on 35mmc.com It shares a similar fate with this one, taken last Mid November in Osaka, and, as Google Lens mercylessly shows, with this one, shot in Omura, near Nagasaki. One can hardly say that this is a never-seen-before view of Tokyo’s Kyu-Shiba-rikyū Gardens, or of…

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    Life Within the Post Office

    November 24, 2014

    Alive or not?

    February 16, 2013

    A Floating Crate

    February 15, 2014
  • B&W,  Boston,  Buildings,  Daily photo,  Docks,  Downtown,  Parks,  Streets&Squares,  Summer,  Travels

    From Waltham to Boston

    August 4, 2023 /

    ‘From Waltham to Boston’, an offshoot of a bigger project on documenting Boston’s pulse, is now available on Amazon as a Kindle e-book.

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    Protezione Civile

    November 12, 2013

    Portrait of a Gunsmith

    February 24, 2016

    Romeo’s Hideout

    December 16, 2015
  • Boston,  Cars&Bikes,  Colour,  Daily photo,  Downtown,  Summer

    A Ferrari 812 GTS in Boston

    July 14, 2023 /

    Amid the urban thrum of a bustling boulevard in Boston, a Ferrari 812 GTS rests with theatrical poise, like a tenor waiting for the curtain to rise. Its rosso corsa bodywork catches the sun like a blade, slicing through the cluttered backdrop of imitation, of diluted Italian flair printed onto shirts, menus, slogans. But here—here is the real thing. This image captures more than automotive power. It embodies the burden and brilliance of authenticity in a world obsessed with mimicry. The Ferrari’s uncompromising lines, forged in Maranello, don’t shout. They assert. In contrast to the busy street and distracted passers-by, the car is still, composed, sovereign. It doesn’t need motion…

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    When Heroes Come to Town

    April 17, 2019

    Footprints in the Snow

    December 25, 2012

    Whithin The Cage

    October 22, 2014
  • Boston,  Colour,  Daily photo,  Downtown,  Street Markets,  Summer

    A Cornhole Board – Independence Day Edition

    July 8, 2023 /

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    A chocolaterie in Bruxelles

    January 6, 2014

    Piero Mazzocchetti – L’ultima notte di Bonfiglio Liborio@Teatro Marrucino

    May 12, 2022

    Longtime Abandoned

    May 30, 2014
  • Bruxelles,  Colour,  Daily photo,  Downtown,  Jewelry,  Winter

    Floating

    February 5, 2023 /

    The Panasonic TZ100 is a very good travel camera. Its one-inch sensor allows a fair balance between performance and portability. Being slightly bigger of trendy smartphones, this camera delivers a way more better results.

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    The Sorcerer’s Shop

    November 1, 2016

    Upcoming Call

    June 3, 2013

    A Modern Nazca?

    December 4, 2014
  • B&W,  Daily photo,  Downtown,  Gear,  Stockholm,  Summer

    Another attempt at DLSR film scanning

    January 21, 2023 /

    Still trying.I digitised the negative with a Pentax K-1 and the FA 100 2.8 Macro lens using the JJC clone of Nikon ES-2. Postproduction is done in Pixelmator Pro. I used a Nikon 35TI and a Kodak BW400CN to take the original photo. Strangely enough, the JJC does not allow a 1:1 ratio with the Micro Nikkor 60 2.8.The instructions advise to mount the 62mm to 52mm step-down ring, the #2 52mm barrel-shaped tube and finally the film holder. These instructions are clearly wrong, as it is not possible to get 1:1 magnification with this setup.So I removed the tube and mounted the film carrier directly on the 62mm to…

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    As much as you’re far from home…

    April 5, 2013

    Processing a DSLR Digitised Black and White Film with Affinity Photo

    January 24, 2023

    @Rome Maker Faire – 4. The Hands Controller

    October 16, 2014
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Downtown,  Milan,  Winter

    Technogym Milan@Night

    April 3, 2022 /

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    Who is the mannequin?

    April 11, 2013

    Out for a While

    September 26, 2013

    Bless or Curse?

    August 12, 2014
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Downtown,  Observer Bias,  PhotoCritics,  Rome,  Winter

    Light as Meaning Shifter

    December 11, 2019 /

    The original idea behind this picture was to match the emptiness of the shop with the facelessness of the mannequin posing as a store clerk, to convey a general feeling of depersonalization. Unfortunately, the big lightblot represented by the poster close to the mannequin catches the observer’s attention and reduce the effectiveness of the composition. Instead of connecting the mannequin with the internal part of the store thus making sense of the whole picture, the eye just “sees” an ad poster.

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    Fast Bus

    October 26, 2016

    The Last Icecream?

    October 30, 2013

    Yin and Yang

    November 26, 2013
  • Autumn,  Colour,  Daily photo,  Downtown,  People,  Restaurants&Bar,  Rome

    Beer or Spritz?

    November 1, 2019 /

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    The Shooter’s Dilemma

    July 12, 2014

    Restaurant or Hellgate?

    June 21, 2013

    Chasing the Runner

    October 6, 2013
  • Autumn,  Colour,  Daily photo,  Downtown,  Rome

    Comarketing

    October 10, 2019 /

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    PI Room At Palais de la Découverte

    June 7, 2015

    The Three Musketeers

    October 16, 2013

    Argument on the Range

    November 7, 2016
  • Autumn,  Colour,  Daily photo,  Downtown,  Rome

    What’s the Time?

    October 8, 2019 /

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    Who Needs A Wedding Photographer Anymore?

    May 29, 2014

    Mario Asks for it!

    April 9, 2014

    Portrait of a Politician – 2

    June 15, 2014
  • Autumn,  Colour,  Daily photo,  Downtown,  Rome,  Streets&Squares

    Garbage as usual@Pantheon’s nearby

    October 4, 2019 /

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    Some odd outcomes from a photo recovering attempt using an AI

    July 13, 2025

    Unattainable 1:1 magnification with the JJC FDA S-1 and Micro Nikkor 60 2,8

    January 29, 2023

    Three Sprouts

    May 22, 2022
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Downtown,  Summer,  Tokyo,  Urban Landscape

    Driving Around a Rainy Tokyo

    June 10, 2018 /

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    Smile!

    August 7, 2013

    Which One?

    April 16, 2014

    Before The Match

    October 20, 2014
  • Cities,  Colour,  Daily photo,  Downtown,  Summer,  Tokyo

    Shin Pepper@Harajuku

    June 4, 2018 /

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    Stage Setting

    October 1, 2014

    Get Ready, Set, Go

    February 2, 2022

    A Tree through the Fog

    January 5, 2014
  • B&W,  Daily photo,  Downtown,  Hamburg,  Lines,  Spring

    Das Feuerwehr

    April 17, 2018 /

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    A Haunted(?) House

    September 19, 2014

    A comfortable chair

    November 8, 2013

    The Empty Stage

    November 25, 2013
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Downtown,  Hamburg,  Spring

    Light Dance in Hamburg

    April 6, 2018 /

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    Portrait of a Master luthier

    October 26, 2013

    Ugo Pagliai – Romeo e Giulietta@Teatro Marrucino

    March 29, 2022

    Coats

    March 19, 2023
  • Bruxelles,  Colour,  Daily photo,  Downtown,  People,  Winter

    We Are All Made of Stars

    February 28, 2018 /

    The street is slick with rain, fenced for works in progress, cluttered with signs and barriers. Yet above it all, the stars have returned — bright, geometric, electric — heralding the slow, luminous arrival of Christmas in Brussels. A lone figure walks toward the camera, wrapped in a scarf and his own thoughts. He is grounded, ordinary, human. But above him, a constellation of neon dreams stretches deep into the vanishing point, inviting passersby to look up, to believe, even if just for a moment. This photograph captures the paradox of the urban winter: cold, messy, fractured — and yet luminous with potential. The construction fences are still up, the…

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    Turiddu repeals Santuzza

    November 19, 2022

    Lady Gaga Art Rave

    October 5, 2014

    Portrait of an Heavy Metal Singer

    November 21, 2013
  • B&W,  Buildings,  Daily photo,  Downtown,  Milan

    Renovating Milan

    November 18, 2017 /

    Milan, November 2017. A construction site—not the kind that demands attention, but the quiet kind that hides behind fabric and scaffolding. I took this photo walking past it for the third or fourth time. What stopped me wasn’t the building itself, but its ghost. Behind the mesh screen, the silhouette of the old façade still lingered, like a memory bleeding through fabric. Chimneys, outlines, the suggestion of windows. The city behind the curtain. At the bottom, the standard construction notice: printed bureaucracy stapled to metal, a reminder that change is always sanctioned, scheduled, structured. But the rest of the image resists clarity. Straight lines waver, verticals drift. Even the fence…

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    A Quiet Evening

    June 26, 2013

    In a yellowtone…

    September 17, 2013

    Sun Worshipers

    January 3, 2022
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Downtown,  Summer,  Venice,  Visual

    Red Cross

    October 26, 2017 /

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    Crowd Control

    July 16, 2013

    Life, the Universe and Everything

    July 28, 2013

    Feuer

    July 10, 2021
  • Autumn,  Colour,  Daily photo,  Downtown,  Milan

    Late Evening Break In Piazza Dante

    October 21, 2017 /

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    Waiting For The Elections

    June 24, 2014

    God of the Sea or Restaurant Banner?

    July 15, 2014

    The Urban Chase

    April 10, 2013
  • Bruxelles,  Colour,  Daily photo,  Downtown,  Spring

    Intelligence Contest

    April 15, 2017 /

    A pane of glass separates two worlds. On one side, the hyper-stylised gaze of a model — digital, sculpted, aloof. His stare pierces outward from an ad inside a hair salon, promising precision, control, curated masculinity at €21. Behind the glossy veneer, real people go about their routines, dwarfed by the giant printed face that symbolises a synthetic ideal. On the other side, a cluster of balloons—soft, round, unformed—calls out with its own clumsy presence. Unintended perhaps, but visually evocative, the column of latex orbs resembles a puppet or caricature. In their simplicity, they reflect something the model cannot: humanity, imperfection, absurdity. The composition turns into theatre. A confrontation of…

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    My first shot (with purpose)

    December 22, 2012

    Phone Call – 1

    February 18, 2015

    Deadly Bored

    January 6, 2020
  • Bruxelles,  Colour,  Daily photo,  Downtown,  Patisserie,  Spring

    The Quest for Belgian Chocolate…

    April 11, 2017 /

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    Behind The Shaft

    June 1, 2013

    When We Were Kids

    August 18, 2013

    When Tilted Photos Work

    December 18, 2019
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Downtown,  Winter

    Street Of New York… possibly

    March 21, 2017 /

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    Home on the Range

    May 17, 2015

    Early Leave at Bruxelles-Midi

    March 23, 2014

    Padua, a photographer’s goldmine

    October 31, 2024
  • B&W,  Daily photo,  Doors&Windows,  Downtown,  Garages&Labs,  Lines,  Rome,  Spring

    Frames for Sale at Via Margutta

    May 2, 2016 /

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    Ghosts of Ginza

    November 14, 2023

    Turiddu repeals Santuzza

    November 19, 2022

    Free Shoes

    October 8, 2014
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