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  • Buildings,  Colour,  Daily photo,  Odds,  Rome,  Spring

    Inside the Elevator

    May 9, 2014 /

    Escher’s Relativity inspired these shots.

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    Negrita’s Cover Band

    September 19, 2013

    Soldering

    November 8, 2021

    Easy Parking

    August 12, 2013
  • Beach&Shores,  Colour,  Daily photo,  Landscape,  Spring

    Falling Tree

    May 8, 2014 /

    Again, an impossible perspective…

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    A Moto Guzzi Falcone and an Expired Kodak Portra 160 Roll

    October 25, 2025

    A Virtual Glance Dance

    December 28, 2019

    Let’s get the party started…

    January 20, 2014
  • Barcelona,  Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  Spring

    WTF Are They Looking At?

    May 7, 2014 /

    Street photography often unfolds in fractions of a second that resist tidy interpretation. This frame emerged from one of those moments — brief, slightly absurd, and quietly revealing. The photograph shows three men crossing the same urban space yet seemingly inhabiting different psychological trajectories. The bald man in the foreground, dressed in a vivid orange jumper that stands out against the subdued tones of the pavement, appears momentarily detached from the flow of movement around him. His posture is firm, almost statuesque, as if he had paused mid-stride to reassess the scene. The shopping bag hanging from his hand becomes less an object of practical use than a compositional counterweight,…

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    Open Interior

    March 14, 2021

    Small Talk in Las Ramblas

    June 4, 2014

    Does It Worth It?

    May 22, 2017
  • 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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    Moistmaker@Piazza della Rotonda

    July 12, 2018

    Chitchat under the rain

    March 10, 2013

    Alien Veins

    December 3, 2014
  • 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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    Pop Art Meets Industrial Hamburg

    April 24, 2018

    @Rome Maker Faire – 7. Mobile Rest

    October 23, 2014

    A Green Patch

    August 26, 2014
  • B&W

    Protected: Black&White

    May 4, 2014 /

    There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.

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    A Jazz-Manouche Guitar Player

    August 17, 2014

    A Missed Opportunity

    May 3, 2026

    EOS-M. Tips and Results For Street-Photography

    August 9, 2013
  • Artists,  Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  Portraits,  Spring

    Portrait of a young guitar player

    May 4, 2014 /

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    A Fishnet – 2

    October 29, 2014

    John De Leo’s Grande Abarasse Orchestra – Live

    February 10, 2015

    Perfect Strangers

    April 5, 2014
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  Portraits

    Portrait of a (former) bike champion

    May 3, 2014 /

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    The Death of Cio-Cio san

    October 15, 2022

    The Kiev 60 and a fix for the frame spacing issue

    October 8, 2023

    Lamp

    April 2, 2014
  • 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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    Lost Bottles

    January 27, 2014

    A Portrait on the Nasdaq Building

    January 18, 2014

    Forgotten Bike In A Forgotten House

    April 3, 2013
  • 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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    Footprints in the Snow

    December 25, 2012

    The Shoesfixer

    September 7, 2014

    Under The Bridge

    June 27, 2016
  • 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 Hellish Look

    March 26, 2024

    A relic from the (recent) past

    April 30, 2013

    The Expired Film Series – Episode 6 – Kodak Portra 400 – November 2016 shot in Sept. 2023

    June 5, 2024
  • 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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    Just a Bench (or a Sacrificial Altar?)

    January 11, 2017

    Washed

    November 22, 2015

    Some odd outcomes from a photo recovering attempt using an AI

    July 13, 2025
  • Beach&Shores,  Colour,  Daily photo,  WideAngle

    Horizon Bending, Again

    April 28, 2014 /

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    A Three Legged Commuter?

    July 21, 2017

    Under an Old Roof

    May 22, 2014

    Lost in mumbling

    September 22, 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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    The Referees

    June 6, 2013

    Outside the Courthall

    April 15, 2015

    Common Fate

    November 15, 2013
  • 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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    Path of Life

    May 17, 2017

    A Lamp

    November 14, 2015

    In the backstage

    May 10, 2013
  • People

    Protected: Prova Aurum

    April 25, 2014 /

    There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.

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    Arrested Behind the Door

    March 29, 2015

    A Comfortable Chair

    November 8, 2013

    Over There!

    May 29, 2022
  • 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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    Los Niños y El Tocaor

    October 30, 2017

    Il barbiere di Siviglia – Don Bartolo mad at Rosina

    November 28, 2020

    Frank Gambale All Stars – Live@Teatro Marrucino

    November 22, 2023
  • Beach&Shores,  Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  WideAngle

    Footprint

    April 24, 2014 /

    Still… wideing.

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    Small Talk in Las Ramblas

    June 4, 2014

    Visual

    January 18, 2013

    Waiting for the hearing

    February 19, 2013
  • Bruxelles,  Colour,  Daily photo,  Garbage,  Spring

    Two Beers, One Cigarette

    April 23, 2014 /

    Not staged. Swear to God!

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    The Worst Moment to Fix a Shoe’s Problem

    April 14, 2013

    Moistmaker@Piazza della Rotonda

    July 12, 2018

    Ashtray

    February 12, 2017
  • 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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    An Essay on Composition

    February 14, 2021

    Gravity on Pause

    September 5, 2025

    Portrait of aTocaor

    October 8, 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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    The Long Way Up

    March 25, 2013

    Staying Behind

    November 28, 2013

    Pentax – In Praise of Usability of Cameras and Lenses

    March 3, 2024
  • 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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    A Missed Opportunity

    May 3, 2026

    A lighter

    February 14, 2013

    Head-Dresser

    February 11, 2013
  • 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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    What Are You Looking At?

    June 19, 2014

    Different Life

    June 24, 2016

    The Last Journey Of An Hero of Italian Motoring

    March 7, 2021
  • Barcelona,  Boulevards,  Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  Spring

    Las Ramblas’ Lifestyle

    April 18, 2014 /

    Who cares about pickpockets?

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    A Bitter Sweet

    March 23, 2013

    A useless photo

    July 23, 2013

    Cognitive Dissonance

    December 5, 2025
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