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  • Cars&Bikes,  Colour,  Daily photo,  Urban Landscape

    When the parking’s lost

    May 16, 2013 /

    When the parking is lost, there’s only one solution.

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    Giorgio Pasotti – Racconti disumani@Teatro Marrucino

    February 28, 2022

    Gloves

    October 19, 2014

    Let’s get the party started…

    January 20, 2014
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Social Control

    Just a soccer match…

    May 15, 2013 /

    This is not an upcoming urban riot. Just a soccer match…

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    The Prisoner’s View from the Sospiri’s Bridge

    September 25, 2017

    Knowledge in the Atelier (or: The First Shot of 2026)

    January 1, 2026

    A Sad Afternoon

    October 7, 2013
  • Artists,  Colour,  Daily photo

    A Master Luthier in his lab…

    May 14, 2013 /

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    Easy To Shoot?

    December 12, 2020

    The Eye

    April 25, 2014

    Action! (beware of Fuji X-Pro 2)

    February 2, 2016
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  Restaurants&Bar

    An interesting reading

    May 13, 2013 /

    To seat or no to seat?

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    Get Ready, Set, Go

    February 2, 2022

    Let’s get the party started…

    January 20, 2014

    Settled in the wrong place

    January 11, 2017
  • B&W,  Daily photo,  Social Control

    Raus

    May 12, 2013 /

    I took this photograph on a quiet street where the stillness of the scene clashed violently with the venom of the message sprayed across the wall. The phrase, written in crude, hurried strokes, is not a remnant from some distant, darker chapter of history but a fresh reminder that intolerance continues to thrive. The frame is stripped of distraction: a textured wall, a single small window with broken panes, and the shadow of a streetlamp reaching across the surface. The composition leans heavily on the tension between emptiness and statement. Placing the graffiti off-centre allows the cracked window to act as a counterweight, both visually and metaphorically—two forms of damage,…

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    StreetPizza@Ueno Park

    August 4, 2018

    Secret Beyond the Door

    October 24, 2013

    Boat Maintenance At Genova’s Porto Antico

    July 30, 2014
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Restaurants&Bar

    The three musket(b)eer

    May 11, 2013 /

    Guess who’s Porthos?

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    What Lasts of A Workbench

    February 22, 2015

    The Racers

    December 7, 2014

    Different Financial Transactions

    November 3, 2016
  • Artists,  B&W,  Daily photo

    In the backstage

    May 10, 2013 /

    There’s a kind of quiet tension in the way they lean against the wall. No people in sight. No instruments visible. Just the outlines of music, sleeping inside their forms. As a photographer, that’s the kind of silence you try to listen to. The room was dark, lit only from one side. The light caught the curve of one case and slipped off the edge of the other. Texture came forward. Shape. Memory. You could almost hear the faint creak of clasps, the echo of strings long since gone quiet. Sometimes the most expressive shots come when nothing is happening. No performance, no sound—just the pause in between. These cases…

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    Make Sense (or: Meaning is in the Eye of the Beholder)

    October 10, 2025

    None of my business…

    March 3, 2013

    Kissaten – One Shot Story

    December 5, 2025
  • B&W,  Daily photo,  Fashion Shops

    A party that shall never come

    May 9, 2013 /

    A dress and a bag waiting to be sold. Will the party ever take place?

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    Is the next Kano Jigoro already on the mat?

    November 7, 2013

    Pillars

    January 29, 2015

    Evolution in Red

    November 20, 2019
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Restaurants&Bar

    The Icecream is ready to be served

    May 8, 2013 /

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    Paths of Life

    January 20, 2013

    A Priest Walking Through the Graffiti Streets

    October 19, 2019

    The missing guest

    April 19, 2013
  • B&W,  Daily photo,  Restaurants&Bar

    Tables and Chairs, at Night

    May 7, 2013 /

    I was drawn to the repetition in this scene — a narrow path lined with tables and chairs, each set lit by a pool of light from the wall-mounted lamps. The rain had just stopped, and the wet stone reflected the glow, creating a subtle tonal contrast that runs like a silver ribbon through the composition. I chose to frame it at an angle that emphasises the recession into darkness, the line of tables pulling the viewer’s eye deeper into the image. The rhythm is regular but not mechanical; the slight variations in chair placement and the occasional break in symmetry prevent it from feeling sterile. The lamps provide natural…

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    Street Food in Via Salaria

    March 13, 2014

    Nikon Z5 and Zeiss ZM Biogon 35/2. An Empirical Field Test

    January 12, 2026

    On Composition. Or: the eye sees what the mind is prepared to comprehend

    September 11, 2023
  • Beach&Shores,  Colour,  Daily photo,  People

    A chat on a lake shore

    May 6, 2013 /

    Countless photos like that have been shot. But enjoying a good moment together always deserves to be recorded

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    Zebra Crossing, Again…

    June 22, 2014

    Windows XVIII … Century

    February 27, 2014

    From Waltham to Boston

    August 4, 2023
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Streets&Squares

    The Mailbox

    May 5, 2013 /

    No News, Good News.

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    Arriba El Mexico!

    July 3, 2014

    Have fun…

    July 12, 2013

    Viltrox AF85/1,8 II XF. Reflexless?

    April 2, 2021
  • B&W,  Daily photo,  Restaurants&Bar

    Fantozzi’s chairs

    May 4, 2013 /

    They look innocent enough — two soft, shapeless seats next to a rattan table, tucked under a wall in some coastal bar. But the title gives it away: Fracchia’s Chairs. And if you know the name, you know exactly what kind of scene this is. Giandomenico Fracchia, as played by Paolo Villaggio in the 1970s, was the tragicomic soul of bureaucratic Italy: servile, stammering, utterly at the mercy of authority. There’s a legendary sketch in which he’s being questioned by his boss — unable to sit still on a chair so round and formless it’s practically a trap. And here it is again, reimagined in polyurethane and branded with Nastro Azzurro. The…

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    Romeo’s Hideout

    December 16, 2015

    Marianna D’ama – Live

    December 2, 2018

    Galaxy S21 Ultra 5g. The difference between Marketing and Reality in Image Quality

    January 24, 2021
  • Beach&Shores,  Colour,  Daily photo,  People

    Fashionable’s shots

    May 3, 2013 /

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    The Choir Master

    December 24, 2016

    Shooting Fast Alfa Romeo on a Race Track

    October 22, 2024

    The Spanish Sense of Flesh – 2

    June 28, 2014
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Gates&Fences

    Iron Gate

    May 2, 2013 /

    When craftmanship meets art.

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    Staged?

    February 16, 2016

    A creative approach to zone focusing with superfast manual lenses and mirrorless cameras in street photography

    September 28, 2024

    Waiting For The Elections

    June 24, 2014
  • B&W,  Daily photo,  Social Control

    Big Brother Enhanced

    May 1, 2013 /

    Shot at Gardaland.

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    Love is like a flower

    May 18, 2013

    Relax At The Rapallo’s Marina

    August 2, 2014

    An Old Motorcade At Night

    August 10, 2015
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Past&Relics,  Streets&Squares

    A relic from the (recent) past

    April 30, 2013 /

    less than twenty years have gone, and a telephone boot looks like a relic from the Stone Age.

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    The Guardian

    January 19, 2014

    Belgian Hats

    October 19, 2015

    What (or Who) Are These Hangs For?

    May 21, 2013
  • Beach&Shores,  Colour,  Daily photo,  People

    Rest on the lake

    April 29, 2013 /

    enjoying some fruit.

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    Hi-Tech Temptation

    June 27, 2015

    Wave Riders

    September 20, 2013

    Before The Match

    October 20, 2014
  • Artists,  Colour,  Daily photo,  People

    Waiting for the goal

    April 28, 2013 /

    Why can’t I enjoy my soccer team’s match instead of wasting my time here? Because my wife loves music…

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    Crowd Control

    February 14, 2016

    A Two-Masted Schooner

    October 25, 2014

    Protezione Civile

    November 12, 2013
  • Cars&Bikes,  Colour,  Daily photo,  Rome

    Segway Chase in Villa Borghese

    April 27, 2013 /

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    The Ipad Shooter. Who needs a Nikon D4 anymore?

    November 3, 2013

    Has Street-Photography a limit?

    December 19, 2012

    We Are All Made of Stars

    February 28, 2018
  • Artists,  B&W,  Daily photo

    Snaps of a Flamenco recital…

    April 26, 2013 /

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    Streetlight Duet

    June 30, 2014

    A Sunny day in Rome

    May 10, 2014

    Longtime Abandoned

    May 30, 2014
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Garbage

    What lasts after a party…

    April 25, 2013 /

    Shot the morning after a wet December night, this scene is an unfiltered inventory of what remains once the bodies disperse. Three bottles—two upright, one half-tucked behind an iron gate—stand in for the absent crowd. There’s no music left, no voices, no movement. Just rust, grime, and the fragile persistence of glass. I framed the shot to keep the human presence implied but never visible. The steps lead nowhere, the iron gate is firmly shut, and the graffiti—hastily sprayed in orange—reads only “KR”, ambiguous and unresolved. That felt important. The story here is incomplete by design. It invites conjecture, not clarity. Technically, this is a study in texture. The marble…

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    FUJIFILM X-T5 RAF have problems with Affinity Photo 2.1

    June 11, 2023

    Free Ride

    October 2, 2014

    Out for a ride…

    January 2, 2013
  • Artists,  Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  Spring

    The Hands of a Drummer (Horacio “El Negro” Hernandez)

    April 24, 2013 /

    You don’t photograph a legend. You try not to get in the way. This frame is all rhythm, no fanfare. No face, no spotlight—just hands, sticks, cymbals, and breath held between beats. It’s Horacio “El Negro” Hernández in concert, but not in the way the audience sees him. This is closer. Quieter. The private side of percussion. Shot just beneath the hi-hat, I framed the photo to let the hand speak: fingers curled not in tension, but in dialogue. The skin slightly worn, the grip half-visible—mid-phrase, mid-flow. The cymbals catch the stage light like the faintest of brushstrokes, shimmering but not stealing the scene. You can feel the groove here.…

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    What lasts after a party…

    April 25, 2013

    Art Auction at Piazza Navona

    February 6, 2016

    FUJIFILM X-T5 RAF have problems with Affinity Photo 2.1

    June 11, 2023
  • Artists,  B&W,  Daily photo

    Shade of Berlin

    April 23, 2013 /

    … Jeff, Berlin.

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    What, IMO, Street-Photography Is All About – One Shot Story

    November 9, 2025

    Gotcha!

    August 16, 2013

    Harley-Davidson: Chrome And Presence

    December 24, 2018
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