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  • Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  Rome

    A Sunny day in Rome

    May 10, 2014 /

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    Breaking the Fourth Wall

    February 17, 2020

    Earbuds

    December 22, 2015

    Inside the Nazario Sauro

    August 10, 2014
  • Buildings,  Colour,  Daily photo,  Odds,  Rome,  Spring

    Inside the Elevator

    May 9, 2014 /

    Escher’s Relativity inspired these shots.

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    A Zen Garden?

    February 22, 2014

    Parallels & Diagonals

    December 21, 2012

    When We Were Kids

    August 18, 2013
  • Beach&Shores,  Colour,  Daily photo,  Landscape,  Spring

    Falling Tree

    May 8, 2014 /

    Again, an impossible perspective…

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    South Bank’s Ghosts

    October 19, 2016

    Let’s get the party started…

    January 20, 2014

    Remainders in Prati

    December 4, 2013
  • Barcelona,  Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  Spring

    WTF Are They Looking At?

    May 7, 2014 /

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    Stadio Olimpico, seen from Tribuna Monte Mario

    October 1, 2022

    A Gull, Posing

    June 17, 2022

    Fancy a beer?

    November 3, 2021
  • B&W,  Bruxelles,  Buildings,  Daily photo,  Spring

    An Unplausable Perspective

    May 6, 2014 /

    There is something odd in this photo, isnt’it?

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    The Seagull’s Rest

    December 18, 2013

    Under The Rocks

    August 14, 2014

    The Expired Film Series – Episode 7 – Kodak Portra 160 – June 2015 shot in Oct. 2023

    January 11, 2024
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Landscape

    For Sale

    May 5, 2014 /

    Long gone is the time when people loved to live in the countryside

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    A Kiss In The Shade

    March 17, 2013

    Real Time Update

    February 20, 2016

    Should I Buy It? (Best Taken With an 85mm)

    January 23, 2016
  • B&W

    Protected: Black&White

    May 4, 2014 /

    There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.

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    Urban Scavenger

    June 28, 2013

    Hanging News

    June 18, 2013

    Different Paths

    December 26, 2012
  • Artists,  Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  Portraits,  Spring

    Portrait of a young guitar player

    May 4, 2014 /

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    Leo Gullotta – Bartleby lo scrivano@Teatro Marrucino

    March 15, 2022

    A Contemporary-Art Installation?

    March 31, 2013

    Three Sprouts

    May 22, 2022
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  Portraits

    Portrait of a (former) bike champion

    May 3, 2014 /

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    Protezione Civile

    November 12, 2013

    Genta Fukue live@Sakura Terrace – Kyoto

    June 22, 2017

    Have fun…

    July 12, 2013
  • Bruxelles,  Colour,  Daily photo,  People

    Belgian Ghosts

    May 2, 2014 /

    Midnight still has to come. But in Bruxelles even ghosts wake up early… The air was damp, the pavement glistening faintly under the sodium lamps. I wasn’t chasing a scene — only watching light. Then someone walked through the frame, absorbed in their own path, and the moment shaped itself. The passer-by moved too quickly for the shutter speed I’d set. At first, I thought I’d lost the shot. Then, reviewing it, I realised that the blur was the picture — motion distilled into presence. The figure became anonymous, spectral, more gesture than person. It summed up urban life in that hour: everyone moving, no one quite seen.

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    Mid-Knee Clinch

    July 7, 2019

    Smile!

    August 7, 2013

    A Few More Shots From An Urban Exploration Trip

    September 20, 2025
  • Beach&Shores,  Colour,  Daily photo,  Gear,  Photography,  Spring,  Visual,  WideAngle

    Noon on the Beach

    May 1, 2014 /

    this image hinges on simplicity and distortion. The sun was directly overhead, leaving the shadow of the pole as a near-perfect sundial, slicing the centre of the frame from bottom to vanishing point. That shadow was the whole reason to shoot: absolute verticality rendered into graphic contrast on a near-featureless plane. The lens dictates the structure. At 16mm, lines bow. The horizon curves. Perspective exaggerates. I leaned into it—there’s no attempt to correct distortion in post. The intention was not to imitate a rectilinear frame, but to emphasise space as abstraction. The beach becomes a sphere, the sky a ceiling, and the tiny trace of buildings at the perimeter only…

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    Windows XVIII … Century

    February 27, 2014

    Splinter

    March 13, 2021

    The Flame is Still Burning…

    June 23, 2018
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Landscape,  Spring

    Ninja-Turtles?

    April 30, 2014 /

    I couldn’t help but smile when I saw this line of turtles perched neatly along the log, each one angled just so to catch the warmth of the midday sun. It’s a scene that strips away the pop culture fantasy of katana-wielding reptiles and replaces it with something far more universal — the quiet pleasure of simply doing nothing. From a compositional standpoint, I did well to let the log form a natural leading line, drawing the viewer’s eye from the cluster on the left to the stragglers on the right. The surrounding foliage frames the scene nicely, adding depth and a touch of chaos to balance the orderly arrangement…

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    A Zen Garden?

    February 22, 2014

    Sic Transit Gloria Mundi

    January 14, 2013

    A Mysterious Bag

    November 2, 2013
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Restaurants&Bar

    Urban Totem

    April 29, 2014 /

    Once upon a time, a totem helped the soul to get in touch with gods. Nowadays it helps the stomach to be fed.

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    What lasts of a springtime hailstorm

    June 22, 2013

    Don’t They Drink Tea, Instead?

    December 27, 2016

    A Red Floating Crate

    February 15, 2014
  • Beach&Shores,  Colour,  Daily photo,  WideAngle

    Horizon Bending, Again

    April 28, 2014 /

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    A few shots from a Paco de Lucia live performance

    July 31, 2013

    Final Arrangements Before the Hearing

    April 19, 2015

    Roman Break

    April 21, 2013
  • Bottles&Cups,  Colour,  Daily photo,  Observer Bias,  Restaurants&Bar,  Spring,  WideAngle

    Red Wine Makes Good Blood…

    April 27, 2014 /

    I made this image at the end of a long lunch — the kind where conversation lingers long after the plates are cleared, and the table becomes less of a place to eat and more a canvas of what just happened. The residue of red wine had bled into the paper surface, leaving behind those familiar circular stains — not accidental, not staged, just there. And I leaned in, glass still in hand, and shot. Technically, this is an exercise in distortion and proximity. I used a wide lens, close focus, and a shallow depth of field. The resulting visual field is warped, but purposefully. You can see the sweep…

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    Remainders in Prati

    December 4, 2013

    The Oslo Opera House

    October 24, 2014

    A Different Passion…

    June 12, 2016
  • Beach&Shores,  Colour,  Daily photo,  Spring,  WideAngle

    The Misplaced Buoy

    April 26, 2014 /

    Kneeling in the surf with the camera just above waterline, I framed this beached buoy like a stranded witness—half-devoured by barnacles, its functional past eroded by time and tide. The wave motion is deliberate: a slow shutter gave the water its painterly strokes, pulling the viewer toward the object with a sense of gentle urgency. The wide-angle perspective exaggerates scale and places the buoy in stark contrast with the horizon. The red-orange plastic punctures the cool blues of sea and sky, a sharp chromatic discord that anchors the entire composition. It’s an aggressive intrusion into the otherwise pastel calm of the shoreline, yet visually satisfying because of the balance created…

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

    May 13, 2022

    When We Were Kids

    August 18, 2013

    The Last Barrell

    December 10, 2015
  • People

    Protected: Prova Aurum

    April 25, 2014 /

    There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.

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    Flashes’ Forgotten Powersuits

    April 11, 2014

    Hope after the Storm

    January 8, 2020

    Yet Another Dawn

    December 30, 2012
  • B&W,  Bruxelles,  Daily photo,  Observer Bias,  Spring,  Visual

    The Eye

    April 25, 2014 /

    Another example of the constant brain’s meaning quest in the things the eye sees. It wasn’t supposed to look back. This is the underside of a building’s curved overhang, a detail most people would never glance up to see. Shot from the ground in perfect alignment, it becomes something else entirely: an iris of steel and shadow, a lens with no glass, watching the world below. I titled it The Eye not just for the shape, but for the feeling. The symmetry is strict—deliberate, almost mechanical—yet the reflection in the polished granite softens it, turning precision into something poetic. A full circle emerges where there’s only a half. What’s solid becomes imagined.…

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    Fuji X-T2 records audio at 16bit/48Khz

    October 11, 2020

    Bicycle

    February 2, 2015

    Damned Pidgeons…

    October 8, 2017
  • Beach&Shores,  Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  WideAngle

    Footprint

    April 24, 2014 /

    Still… wideing.

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    Under the Arc of the Seine

    June 9, 2015

    The Icecream is ready to be served

    May 8, 2013

    A perfect match

    February 1, 2013
  • Bruxelles,  Colour,  Daily photo,  Garbage,  Spring

    Two Beers, One Cigarette

    April 23, 2014 /

    Not staged. Swear to God!

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    A Fisherman

    August 29, 2014

    A quiet watchdog or long-time friend who enjoys some rest??

    May 23, 2013

    Rush Hours

    March 10, 2014
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Observer Bias,  Spring,  WideAngle

    On the Edge of the World

    April 22, 2014 /

    This image is the outcome of a technical test as much as it is a commentary on environment and perception. I wanted to see how the venerable 1973 Nikkor 16mm f/3.5 fisheye would behave on the full-frame sensor of a Nikon D700. The result is a picture pulled to its edges, both optically and metaphorically. What this lens gives in distortion, it returns in expressive tension. The beach curves like the edge of a planet. The sky presses down as if it’s wrapping itself around the scene. A single line of debris cuts through the frame, pulling the eye toward a loosely gathered group of people, whose presence feels both…

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    Tables and Chairs, at Night

    May 7, 2013

    Relaxed Call at Boulevard du Palais

    March 19, 2014

    Avid Readers

    August 17, 2013
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Observer Bias,  Spring,  WideAngle

    Bent

    April 21, 2014 /

    When I first lifted the camera to my eye for this shot, the Nikkor 16mm fisheye was not the lens you’d expect for such a pastoral, rolling landscape. Fisheyes, after all, are often the tools of cramped interiors, extreme sports, or deliberately surreal perspectives. Yet here, in the middle of vineyard country, I wanted to see what would happen if I let its inherent distortion play with the natural undulations of the hills. The result is a scene that feels almost elastic. The road on the right curves away more dramatically than it does in reality, while the vineyard rows tilt into an exaggerated arc, their geometry bending to the…

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    Red Curtains

    August 28, 2014

    Free Shoes On A Hot Day

    October 8, 2014

    @ Mediterranean Beach Games 2015 – Wrestling, Italy vs France (And a primer on sport photography – Part 5)

    October 9, 2015
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Gear,  Milan,  People

    Damned Autofocus

    April 20, 2014 /

    I like this photo very much. The two travelers, mutually unbeknownst, stroke a pose like if they were on duty fashion models. Unfortunately, the Fujifulm X-E1 autofocus didn’t work fast enough and, as I’ve already told, zone-focusing is a pain in the neck without a properly marked focus-ring. Long live to Hasselblad, Zeiss, Leica and Nikon…

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    Game Over

    April 15, 2022

    The Alchoolist’s garbage

    March 5, 2013

    Quality Check. Try Before You Buy

    April 10, 2014
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Milan,  Observer Bias,  People,  Photography,  Spring

    Brain vs Camera

    April 19, 2014 /

    The picture on the left is what the camera saw. The picture on the right is what I had in mind while shooting. Thanks to Photoshop I’ve been able to bend the “objectivity” of the camera along the line of my creativity.

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    Stinky Shoes

    June 3, 2015

    Snorkeling

    August 24, 2014

    Viltrox AF85/1,8 II XF. Reflexless?

    April 2, 2021
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