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  • Autumn,  B&W,  Daily photo,  Fashion Shops,  Oslo,  People

    Behind a Shop Window in Oslo

    October 1, 2014 /

    This was one of those scenes that unfolded on its own terms. No decisive moment, no split-second drama—just a man behind glass, cleaning or adjusting or both, surrounded by faceless mannequins and the awkward geometry of retail preparation. I raised the Nikon 35 TI and pressed the shutter before overthinking it. Shot through the shop window, the glass worked both against me and with me. It introduced layers—literal and symbolic. Reflections were minimal but present, just enough to remind us we’re on the outside looking in. The man is inside a constructed world, arranging it, tidying its surfaces for consumption. The mannequins—blank-eyed children—stand frozen, already staged, while he works between…

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    George Braque

    October 11, 2013

    The Street Photographer Rights In Italy. The Leaflet

    July 10, 2014

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    February 26, 2021
  • B&W,  Daily photo,  Oslo,  Parks,  People

    The Wild Bunch

    September 30, 2014 /

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    What Could I Do?

    April 18, 2016

    It’s always the right time

    February 17, 2013

    A useless photo

    July 23, 2013
  • Autumn,  Bruxelles,  Colour,  Daily photo,  Gates&Fences

    The Path To Freedom

    September 29, 2014 /

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    Portrait of a Wrestler

    October 27, 2013

    Hard Worker

    February 9, 2014

    Flashes’ Forgotten Powersuits

    April 11, 2014
  • Autumn,  B&W,  Daily photo,  Docks,  Oslo,  People

    Running On The (Oslo’s) Docks

    September 28, 2014 /

    The moment lasted a fraction of a second. I was walking along the Oslo harbour, camera hanging loosely, eyes half on the ships and half on the geometry of the paving stones when he entered the frame — the runner. Perfect posture, right leg extended mid-stride, left arm balancing out the rhythm, and most crucially, isolated against the background clutter of docked ships and cranes. This image isn’t about the athleticism. It’s about pace, solitude, and counterpoint. The city rests behind him, still and orderly, while he pushes forward, cutting through the quiet with motion and intention. He’s small against the marine industrial backdrop, but all attention lands on him.…

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    Quis Custodiet…

    January 26, 2013

    Supporter or Photographer?

    March 21, 2013

    An Off Duty Anchor

    September 21, 2014
  • Bruxelles,  Colour,  Daily photo,  People

    Ceci N’Est Pas Une Pipe

    September 27, 2014 /

    The man stands on the pavement, absorbed in the small object between his fingers. From a distance, it could be mistaken for a pipe, but it is not — hence the title. The illusion, momentary and context-dependent, mirrors Magritte’s provocation: our assumptions often run ahead of the facts. I composed this with a clear separation of subject and background. The warm, textured brown of his jacket isolates him against the cooler tones of concrete and foliage, pulling the eye immediately toward him. The alignment along the right-hand third of the frame keeps the sidewalk stretching away into the background, giving a sense of space and urban depth. Technically, the exposure…

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    Sea Anemones Shot With A Cheap Kit

    August 20, 2014

    In the Rain, A Helping Hand

    July 10, 2019

    Shadows&Lights

    March 7, 2014
  • Autumn,  Cars&Bikes,  Cities,  Colour,  Daily photo,  Downtown,  Oslo

    A Taxi Night Fleet At Oslo’s Central Station

    September 26, 2014 /

    I took this frame at a moment of pure symmetry and friction. The way taxi lines form outside Oslo Central Station at night—almost militaristic in their discipline, yet each vehicle pulsing with its own colour rhythm—felt like an urban ballet set to the low hum of idling engines and the soft scuff of rubber on wet cobblestones. Technically, night shots like this are unforgiving. The cold light from the LEDs clashes sharply with the warmth of the taillights and the overhead sodium vapour glow, which is why I resisted neutralising the colour balance too much. The visual tension between the icy blue reflected on the left and the bleeding red…

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    Pavement

    November 16, 2014

    An Asian Lion Guarding an Italian Town – One Shot Story

    August 27, 2025

    Using a 1960 Leica Elmarit 90/2,8 on a Fuji X-T3

    April 5, 2021
  • B&W,  Cars&Bikes,  Daily photo,  People,  Portraits

    Portrait of The Alfa Romeo Guru

    September 25, 2014 /

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    The Bystander

    February 5, 2018

    Dress Different

    March 15, 2015

    Dreaming of a Lancia Delta Martini…

    March 24, 2013
  • Cars&Bikes,  Colour,  Daily photo,  OutOfFocus

    Dreaming Of Giulietta (sprint)

    September 24, 2014 /

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    Silent Among Many Voices

    January 1, 2013

    Parisian’s Bags

    April 6, 2014

    Streetlight Duet

    June 30, 2014
  • Autumn,  Cars&Bikes,  Colour,  Daily photo

    An Old Lady in Great Shape

    September 23, 2014 /

    There’s something about old cars that asks you to listen before you look. You don’t photograph them—you make their acquaintance. This shot was taken inside an Alfa Romeo Giulia. She’s a machine from another time, but she doesn’t wear her age like a burden. The patina on the steering wheel, the soft wear on the dashboard controls, the dusty glow on the gauges—they don’t speak of decay, but of use. Of stories lived in full throttle and long idles. I didn’t stage this frame. I simply opened the door and saw her waiting there in quiet elegance. The light slipped through the glass just enough to kiss the rim of…

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    Priority Pass Lounge at Fiumicino Airport

    November 30, 2015

    Floating

    October 7, 2023

    Relaxed Call at Boulevard du Palais

    March 19, 2014
  • Autumn,  Bottles&Cups,  Colour,  Daily photo,  Visual

    Not A Photography Anymore

    September 22, 2014 /

    I approached this shot with the intention of exploring the point at which photography begins to lose its documentary role and drifts into the territory of constructed image-making. The Leica M9, with its CCD sensor, is unforgiving in its rendering of highlights, and here I chose to exploit that to push the tones far beyond their natural state. The result is an image that wears its artificiality openly. The composition is rigidly symmetrical: three vases, evenly spaced, under a line of metallic coffee pots and creamers. The symmetry is disrupted only by the interplay of colours — magenta, amber, and white — and the bold shadows they cast. These shadows…

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    Shopping in Bruxelles

    December 20, 2013

    Lockpicking Tools

    December 11, 2018

    Quis Custodiet…

    January 26, 2013
  • Autumn,  Colour,  Daily photo

    An Off Duty Anchor

    September 21, 2014 /

    I photographed this anchor in bright sunlight, a massive piece of ironwork chained and set as a monument. What caught my attention, however, was not just the object itself but the casual intrusion of a beer bottle resting at its base. The contrast between permanence and ephemerality, between weight and disposability, was too striking to ignore. Compositionally, the frame is cropped tightly to remove distractions and place the focus squarely on the anchor’s texture and the bottle’s fragility. The dark chain arcs across the image, cutting a diagonal line that divides the weighty form. Against it, the amber glass sits small and almost ridiculous, yet it steals attention precisely because…

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    Much Too Short a Ladder

    October 17, 2013

    Shooting an Outdoor Volleyball Match

    June 19, 2025

    The Silent Dialog

    August 31, 2013
  • Autumn,  Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  Restaurants&Bar

    Efesto’s New Production Line

    September 20, 2014 /

    Just behind the barbecue master, the heat rose sharply and the smoke thickened into a shifting wall. The man stood at the centre of it, absorbed in the intensity of roasting slices of lambs, his back straight, shoulders tight, arms moving with controlled force. There was no theatrical pose—only concentration. From this angle, the scene feels more like a workshop than a stage.

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    A Fujifilm X-E1 Annoyance

    April 15, 2014

    Floating Flower

    May 19, 2015

    One Shot Story: Behind the Fence

    January 3, 2025
  • B&W,  Daily photo,  Doors&Windows,  Past&Relics,  Spring

    A Haunted(?) House

    September 19, 2014 /

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    Just A Bird

    July 1, 2014

    Windows

    September 15, 2014

    Lost in mumbling

    September 22, 2013
  • B&W,  Daily photo,  Spring,  Streets&Squares,  Urban Landscape

    Urban Desolation

    September 18, 2014 /

    This photograph is part of a study I’ve been developing on marginal architecture—spaces neglected by urban development yet still clinging to presence. The building isn’t ruined in a picturesque way. It’s just exhausted. Scarred concrete, flaking plaster, and rusted grates stand as accidental testimonies of permanence beyond usefulness. I composed the frame to draw the viewer’s eye along the length of the structure, ending with the blurred outlines of new buildings in the background. The juxtaposition isn’t subtle—it wasn’t meant to be. These walls hold layers of past usage, from the makeshift repairs to the graffiti tags now fading like old memories. Technically, the photo rides a fine line between…

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    Out For Justice

    June 21, 2014

    Ready For Lunch

    November 1, 2014

    Rest in peace

    March 13, 2013
  • B&W,  Cities,  Daily photo,  People,  Rome

    Street Crossing

    September 17, 2014 /

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    A true cricket?

    September 16, 2013

    Processing a DSLR Digitised Black and White Film with Affinity Photo

    January 24, 2023

    Urban Scavenger

    June 28, 2013
  • B&W,  Daily photo,  Visual,  Winter

    Ramping Up

    September 16, 2014 /

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    Portrait of a young guitar player

    May 4, 2014

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    May 4, 2023

    Pino Ammendola – L’ultima notte di Bonfiglio Liborio@Teatro Marrucino

    May 13, 2022
  • B&W,  Daily photo,  Doors&Windows,  Visual

    Windows

    September 15, 2014 /

    The photograph isolates a stark interior: two narrow barred windows flanking a central wall, and above them, a single rectangular window letting in pale light. Geometry dominates—verticals and horizontals align, while the bars break symmetry with their irregular grid. The result is a study in confinement and release, the eye inevitably drawn upward toward the light source. Composition is strict, almost architectural. The side windows anchor the lower frame, their darkness reinforcing the weight of the walls. The brighter upper window, positioned centrally, becomes both focal point and escape. Depth is minimal; the flatness of the surfaces intensifies the sensation of enclosure. Technically, the black and white treatment enhances austerity.…

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    Empty Chairs in the Tuileries

    October 19, 2013

    5 Frames with a Praktica MTL5B, a Pentacon 50/1,8 and a Roll of Portra 400 (expired in 2011)

    June 20, 2024

    Fujifilm XF 100-400: a quick test

    January 12, 2018
  • B&W,  Daily photo,  Past&Relics,  Winter

    Food For Thought

    September 14, 2014 /

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    Traffic Master

    December 19, 2016

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

    January 29, 2023

    A Fujifilm X-E1 Annoyance

    April 15, 2014
  • Autumn,  B&W,  Daily photo,  Rome,  Streets&Squares

    Via Collina, Empty, From Above

    September 13, 2014 /

    The perspective is vertical, as if leaning out and looking straight down. Cars line both sides of the narrow street, parked in strict succession, their roofs forming a patchwork of tones. The pavement and façades edge the scene, flattening into geometry under the camera’s angle. At the centre, however, the street itself is bare—an unexpected strip of emptiness in a crowded frame. Composition relies on symmetry and repetition. The rhythm of vehicles, rectangles of windows, and parallel lines of pavement create a structured grid. The lamppost, suspended on its wire, interrupts this order with a curve, offering a counterpoint to the rectilinear logic. Two pedestrians near the corner introduce scale,…

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    May 21, 2013

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    April 6, 2016

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    June 27, 2014
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Past&Relics

    An Old School Workstation

    September 12, 2014 /

    It’s not just a desk. It’s a time capsule. A stack of worn books. Pages thick with annotation and use. The chipped edge of a hardcover bent from years of handling. And just out of focus, the heavy presence of a typewriter—silent now, but once the loudest voice in the room. This photo is titled An Old School Workstation, and it says more than it shows. There’s no screen here, no cursor blinking for attention. Just tools. Weighty, tactile, deliberate. This was how knowledge was built—layer by layer, keystroke by keystroke, turned page after turned page. The contrast to today is hard to ignore. Now we scroll, we skim, we tap…

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    Small Talk in Las Ramblas

    June 4, 2014

    An Unplausable Perspective

    May 6, 2014

    60×40 Borderless Printing with a HP Z3200ps 24

    May 11, 2014
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Past&Relics,  Winter

    A Rusted Window

    September 11, 2014 /

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    February 23, 2014

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    June 12, 2018
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Landscape,  Winter

    The Chicken

    September 10, 2014 /

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    July 11, 2016

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    February 19, 2013
  • Autumn,  Colour,  Daily photo,  Docks

    A Sailors’ Warehouse

    September 9, 2014 /

    I took this photograph inside a boathouse, looking down into a storage system built from large industrial pipes. What struck me immediately was the rhythm of repetition: the orange-red circles forming a grid, each cradling a piece of fabric, rope, or gear. Practicality drove the design, yet visually it became something else—an ordered chaos, a taxonomy of a sailor’s life. The top-down perspective was deliberate. Shooting directly overhead flattened the objects into patterns, stripping away depth in favour of geometry. It is a photograph about compartments and how objects settle into them. The symmetry of the circles is slightly broken by the irregular bulk of the bags and fabrics, which…

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    March 19, 2015
  • Autumn,  Colour,  Daily photo

    Autumn Leaves

    September 8, 2014 /

    There’s nothing particularly striking about this photo at first glance. Just a flower box tucked against a weathered wall. A few green leaves still stubbornly clinging on, others browned and curled, caught mid-fall. It’s the kind of street element you pass without noticing, or maybe glimpse and forget. And yet, it’s a portrait — not of a person, but of a moment in life. That in-between moment.When you’re no longer young, but not yet old.Not blooming, not dying. Just… suspended. There’s resilience in the remaining green, still pushing out colour despite the changing cycle. But there’s no hiding the signs of decline. Age creeps in at the edges first —…

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