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  • B&W,  Daily photo,  Parks,  Reportage,  Social Control,  Winter

    Just a Soccer Field… Part 1

    February 3, 2014 /

    Just a soccer field… the only place where freedom lasts, but just for the time of a match.

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    Andrea Monti

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    60×40 Borderless Printing with a HP Z3200ps 24

    May 11, 2014

    Ready for lunch

    September 2, 2014

    Panning the Police

    November 17, 2016
  • B&W,  Daily photo,  Gear,  Photography

    The Google Experiment

    February 1, 2014 /

    The usual note: I don’t write about gear. But this time I want to do an experiment inspired by the consequences of having the post about Street Photography and Italian Law bounced by Adam Marelli and Luminous-Landscape. Since these two websites channeled my post around the world, the access to (other parts too of) my blog – mostly unknown, previously – steady increased. I’m far from saying that I’ve reached an “audience”, nevertheless this blog is gaining its space among the zillions  of pictures that live on the Internet. And it is “quality” space, meaning that visitors (you’re always welcome, folks!) find something of interest by looking at my pictures…

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    Andrea Monti

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    Matching Nails

    September 18, 2017

    Iphone 15 Billboard in Via XX Settembre

    February 14, 2024

    Don’t They Drink Tea, Instead?

    December 27, 2016
  • B&W,  Daily photo,  Photography,  Winter

    Good Idea

    January 31, 2014 /

    … bad execution. The shot would have been acceptable if the head of the fisherman had the sky as a background instead of the bow.

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    Mid-Morning Break at Place Jourdan

    March 24, 2014

    Some odd outcomes from a photo recovering attempt using an AI

    July 13, 2025

    Fishing Under The Bridge

    September 4, 2014
  • B&W,  Daily photo,  Docks,  People,  Winter

    Rest on the Docks

    January 30, 2014 /

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    Horizon Bending, Again

    April 28, 2014

    Dress Different

    March 15, 2015

    Night Serenade

    September 12, 2013
  • B&W,  Daily photo,  Milan,  People,  Winter

    W Verdi

    January 29, 2014 /

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    Portrait of a Lawyer

    October 5, 2013

    Christmas Time at Covent Garden

    December 25, 2013

    Springtime

    April 23, 2015
  • B&W,  Daily photo,  Milan,  People

    Carabinieri in Milan

    January 28, 2014 /

    Milan’s downtown it’s not the most dangerous place out there,  nevertheless is always nice to see the Carabinieri walking around…

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    Andrea Monti

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    A Single(‘s) Call

    September 24, 2016

    Leica Shop @ Strada Maggiore

    May 11, 2017

    Lunchtime

    February 18, 2013
  • B&W,  Daily photo,  New York,  Streets&Squares

    Slow Walk at Mulberry St.

    January 16, 2014 /

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    Turiddu repeals Santuzza

    November 19, 2022

    Lost Cellos

    August 30, 2014

    Kite Surfing, Again

    February 19, 2017
  • B&W,  Daily photo,  People,  Winter

    Late Night Arrival at Bertinoro’s Castle

    January 15, 2014 /

    Hopefully the janitor is still awake…

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    Don’t Forget!

    March 27, 2013

    Skating on Avenue Louise

    April 1, 2014

    Out for a While

    September 26, 2013
  • B&W,  Beach&Shores,  Daily photo,  Gear,  Photography,  Winter

    The Hasselblad Way

    January 2, 2014 /

    As the readers of this blog know, I seldom talk about gear because since the very first post on this blog I made a point of stay focused on (shooting) pictures instead of musing about pointless technicalities such as Camera A vs Camera B ISO performance, Lens X vs Lens Y sharpness, APS-C vs Full Frame and so on, but today I do an exception because of an old Hasselbld 500 C/M that I have been given to try (and that probably will buy.) There is only one way to shoot with a Hasselblad: following its rule. The film has to be loaded in a certain way, the magazine locked…

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    Andrea Monti

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    HeadButt

    August 5, 2023

    Did You Forget Something?

    October 3, 2016

    Much Too Short a Ladder

    October 17, 2013
  • Airport,  B&W,  Daily photo,  London,  Visual

    Stantsted Lounge’s Chairs

    December 31, 2013 /

    All the flights are finally airborne, and the all the seats in the lounge are empty.

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    Andrea Monti

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    Late for Lunch

    March 26, 2014

    The EOS-M just sucks

    July 18, 2013

    Before The Match

    October 20, 2014
  • B&W,  Bruxelles,  Daily photo,  Restaurants&Bar

    Ceci n’est pas un cadre

    December 29, 2013 /

    A few, different meanings. The most evident (?):it is a mirror, actually. Thus is not a peinture. The less evident: the title is a sleight of word on the famous Magritte’s masterwork “Ceci n’est pas une pipe“. The lesser evident: I shot the picture in Bruxelles, where is located the Magritte Museum.

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    Sweet Dilemma

    November 4, 2015

    The Crew’s Rest

    July 20, 2014

    Imitation of Banksi

    November 1, 2021
  • B&W,  Bruxelles,  Buildings,  Cities,  Daily photo,  Urban Landscape,  Winter

    Late Afternoon Workers

    December 23, 2013 /

    At Place de la Monnaie, in Bruxelles, late-afternoon workers look their life go by, while the rest of the world, enjoy the fun. This photo felt less like a building and more like a roll of exposed film. Fifteen windows, side by side. Fifteen little theatres. The framing is perfect—not by accident, but by architecture. A row of lives unfolding under fluorescent light. You can almost hear the hum. Some rooms are empty. Some are dim. In a few, people remain—cleaning up, wrapping gifts, turning off screens. There are Christmas trees, forgotten chairs, coats slung over partitions. And above all, stillness. Each window holds its own shot. Unrelated, disconnected. A…

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    Andrea Monti

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    Different Life

    June 24, 2016

    A Young Sailor

    August 11, 2014

    The Smoke Teacher

    July 1, 2013
  • B&W,  Beach&Shores,  Daily photo,  Docks,  Landscape

    The Seagull’s Rest

    December 18, 2013 /

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    Art Auction at Piazza Navona

    February 6, 2016

    A View

    December 8, 2014

    Red Cross

    October 26, 2017
  • B&W,  Beach&Shores,  Daily photo,  Garbage,  People

    An urgent phone call?

    December 15, 2013 /

    Using a tele (200 mm)  allowed me to take the picture but the long focal didn’t separate the planes as a 50 mm would. Truth is that – in these condition – I would hardly have been close enough to obtain the visual effect I was looking for, but the alternative was not to take the shot at all.

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    Lamp

    April 2, 2014

    Trial Docks Waiting for the Justice to Come

    April 21, 2015

    Weight Training @ Rome’s Stadio Olimpico

    October 9, 2018
  • Autumn,  B&W,  Bookstores,  Daily photo,  Rome

    Remainders in Prati

    December 4, 2013 /

    No need to spend huge money, to have a good read.

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    Andrea Monti

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    Yet Another Dawn

    December 30, 2012

    Welcome in the New (?) Year

    January 1, 2014

    Rest on the lake

    April 29, 2013
  • B&W,  Daily photo,  Gear,  Visual

    VueScan and the missed Bits-per-pixel

    December 1, 2013 /

    Ed Hamrick’s VueScan is a great software that supports almost every scanner available, including out-of-production film scanner. Sometimes its interface behave in non documented way as in the case of the Bits-per-pixel option in the Input tab that disappears once the Infrared Clean option is enabled in the Filter tab. I wasn’t able to figure out the relationship between the two settings until Ed Hamrick himself kindly answered (lightfast, I would say) to my question. Kudos to him for that, but it would be nice to have this Infrared clean-Bits per pixel issue mentioned in the user guide :)

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    Andrea Monti

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    Landing

    December 4, 2021

    A jam in via Alessandria

    December 8, 2023

    Behind the Beer

    December 26, 2013
  • Artists,  B&W,  Daily photo,  People,  Portraits

    Portrait of an Heavy Metal Singer

    November 21, 2013 /

    Devilish, isn’t it?

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    Andrea Monti

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    When Colour Helps Composition

    February 7, 2020

    Brain vs Camera

    April 19, 2014

    The Unresting Lawyer

    February 6, 2017
  • B&W,  Chairs&Seats,  Daily photo

    A comfortable chair

    November 8, 2013 /

    Well … maybe.

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    A manual-focus atteimpt on a moving target

    July 26, 2013

    The Pizza’s Journey

    June 12, 2013

    Killing the Time

    October 10, 2016
  • B&W,  Daily photo,  Photo Journalism,  Street Photography,  Thoughts

    Italy, Street-Photography and the Law

    October 29, 2013 /

    Update – 2 On July 2014 the Polizia Municipale of Rome seized a street-photographer ‘s camera, but the Court bashed the seizure. Update – 1 Here is an A4 leaflet useful to stand your ground if your street-photography work is questioned by somebody else. Introduction* As there are few texts in English dealing with (street) photography and Italian laws, I’ve decided to put my lawyer‘s hat and sketch some toughts on the two main topics involving the Street-Photography: shooting candid and publishing them online. To cut a long story short, Italian law follows a similar approach to other Western jurisdictions and – in particular – of Articles 8 and 10…

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    Empty Spaces

    May 23, 2014

    Just a soccer field… Part 3

    February 5, 2014

    A Dislodged Portal

    December 15, 2018
  • Autumn,  B&W,  Daily photo,  People,  Portraits,  Projects

    Portrait of a young scholar

    October 28, 2013 /

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    The Chess Players

    October 10, 2013

    Bus Driver

    September 16, 2016

    Inked

    February 12, 2016
  • B&W,  Daily photo,  Fighters,  Fighting Disciplines,  People,  Portraits,  Sport

    Portrait of a wrestler

    October 27, 2013 /

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    Three Lamposts

    June 11, 2022

    @ Mediterranean Beach Games 2015 – Italian Female Rowing Team

    October 25, 2015

    The last waltz

    January 24, 2013
  • B&W,  Daily photo,  People,  Portraits,  Summer

    Portrait of a politician – 1

    October 25, 2013 /

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    Editing a photo taken with a Carl Zeiss Jena 135/4 Sonnar and a Fuji X-T3

    February 8, 2023

    Genta Fukue live@Sakura Terrace – Kyoto

    June 22, 2017

    Fashionable’s shots

    May 3, 2013
  • Autumn,  B&W,  Daily photo,  People,  Social Control

    Secret Beyond the Door

    October 24, 2013 /

    Who knows what they’re talking about?

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    Andrea Monti

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    AI or not AI?

    October 3, 2023

    Venditti&DeGregori – Live@Anfiteatro La Civitella

    August 11, 2022

    Blow Up

    November 13, 2014
  • Autumn,  B&W,  Daily photo,  Paris

    The Way Out

    October 20, 2013 /

    Freedom is just over the window

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    Andrea Monti

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    VueScan and the missed Bits-per-pixel

    December 1, 2013

    Watch My Back

    January 15, 2013

    Rest on the lake

    April 29, 2013
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