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  • Bridges,  Colour,  Daily photo

    Lava Nails

    February 28, 2021 /

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    What Lasts After the Hangover

    April 27, 2015

    @ Mediterranean Beach Games 2015 – Italian Female Rowing Team

    October 25, 2015

    Time Runs Fast

    May 21, 2014
  • Beach&Shores,  Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  Winter

    Pensive

    February 26, 2021 /

    Manual focus needs practice. This photo would have been better if I framed also the top of the cabin and focused better the person.

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    What Are You Looking At?

    June 19, 2014

    Opposites

    February 3, 2013

    I-Ching

    October 27, 2015
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  Streets&Squares,  Technique,  Winter

    A Skater

    February 23, 2021 /

    Framing the whole statue would have made this photo better. The mistake was caused by the necessity to shoot fast, the lens’ field of view and the distance between the subject and the focal plane.

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    Waiting for (Supreme) Justice

    February 14, 2017

    A Jazz-Manouche Guitar Player

    August 17, 2014

    Between Two Sets

    May 15, 2014
  • Bridges,  Colour,  Daily photo,  Winter

    A droplet

    February 21, 2021 /

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    Open Window

    February 4, 2015

    Last Check Before The Show

    July 21, 2014

    Much Too Short a Ladder

    October 17, 2013
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Gear,  Winter

    A Rudder

    February 19, 2021 /

    Pentax K-1/smc Pentax-A 135/2,8

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    Watching the Eiffel Tower

    October 14, 2013

    A Cello Player

    April 24, 2017

    Mind The Gap!

    July 5, 2014
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Visual,  Winter

    A Mesh

    February 16, 2021 /

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    A Sad Harley-Davidson

    August 10, 2013

    Portrait of a Master luthier

    October 26, 2013

    Counter-intuitive Focus

    February 9, 2020
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Fountains,  Visual,  Winter

    An Essay on Composition

    February 14, 2021 /

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    Gary O’ Toole

    July 15, 2017

    A Lamppost

    November 26, 2014

    Run Like Hell, Pinocchio!

    February 24, 2015
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Gear,  Summer,  Thoughts

    Pentax SMC-A 50/1,7 – Nikkor 50/1,4 – Summicron 50/2

    February 9, 2021 /

    The left slice is taken with a Pentax K-1 and SMC-A 50/1,7, the centre with a Nikon D750 and a Nikkor 50/1,4, the right with a Fujifilm X-T3 and a Summicron 50/2. All the cameras were at their base ISO (100 for the Pentax and Nikon, 160 with the Fujifilm), at F2 and aperture priority. The K-1 and the X-T3 photos were shot in manual focus. Only the K-1 has IBIS stabilization. The jpg is taken in Affinity by slicing each OOC RAW file without post-processing.

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    St. Peter in Background

    December 5, 2013

    DxO Pure Raw empirical test

    November 22, 2022

    A Ryanair Aircraft

    August 21, 2018
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Winter

    A Lockheed C-130 Hercules

    January 31, 2021 /

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    A Ferrari 812 GTS

    July 14, 2023

    A young Iron Maiden fan

    April 8, 2013

    Canon EOS-M. Useless for Street-Photography

    March 28, 2013
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Kite Surf,  Seasons,  Sport,  Technique,  Winter

    Kite Surfer Under Duress

    January 29, 2021 /

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    Halt!

    December 28, 2017

    The Flying Dutchman… a sort of

    March 19, 2017

    Roots On The Roof

    September 6, 2015
  • Artists,  Colour,  Daily photo,  Streets&Squares,  Winter

    Busker and Covid-19

    January 26, 2021 /

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    Urban Totem

    April 29, 2014

    What a odd couple of bipedals…

    February 26, 2013

    The Ubiquitous Mobile

    July 14, 2016
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Gear,  Thoughts

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

    January 24, 2021 /

    To put it short, this is what you get by purchasing a Galaxy S21 Ultra 5g using the standard camera app: access to all four lenses is limited to jpg, 108megapixel resolution is limited to one lens (the one Samsung calls ‘wide’ or ‘1x’), RAW format is only availble in ‘PRO’ mode, limited to ‘ultrawide’ (0,6x) and ‘wide’ (1x), with no access to 108megpixel resolution. Samsung advertises the Galaxy S21 Ultra 5g by spinning its 108 megapixel camera. However, it does not make clear that the 108 megapixel resolution is not available in “PRO” mode, the only that records in raw. By contrast, this super resolution is available in normal…

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    Urgent Call

    May 15, 2017

    Access Denied

    June 1, 2015

    Reluctant

    November 25, 2014
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Photography

    A Fix for the Wikipedia Photos’ Copyright Scams?

    December 19, 2020 /

    As reported by Petapixel, a new form of copyright (better, ‘moral rights of author) scam hits photographer: the credit stealing on Wikipedia. In a nutshell, as everything on Wikipedia is editable, somebody started changing the photos’ ownership information from the original author to somebody else who, as Petapixel writes, get a series of ‘benefit’. As bad as it sounds, copyright protection on the Internet is a lost battle for an individual. Some services like Unsplash “turned the problem into an opportunity”. However it did not solve the issue in general terms. I’m seriously considering if just going back to a print-only sharing is a better way to handle pictures’ copyright,…

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    Multiple Meaning

    December 10, 2013

    Outside the Nobel Museum

    June 30, 2016

    Foto-Grafo admitted to the Persol Reflex Edition contest

    April 16, 2013
  • Bookstores,  Colour,  Daily photo,  Tokyo

    Tsutaya Bookstore@Ginza

    December 6, 2020 /

    This is a photo I took insude the Tsutaya bookstore in Tokyo. When faced with something like this, Amazon can’t win because no remote purchase can replace the experience of spending time in such a place (and the photo doesn’t do justice to the context, by the way).

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    Stage Setting

    October 1, 2014

    Skating on the Riviera

    November 9, 2018

    Stop

    December 6, 2018
  • Bookstores,  Colour,  Daily photo,  Kyoto,  Summer

    Dai Shodo@Kyoto

    December 2, 2020 /

    Kyoto ‘s Teramachi-dori is full of suprises. Amidst shops of the most different kind and attire, booklovers can find this small gem.

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    Genta Fukue live@Sakura Terrace – Kyoto

    June 22, 2017

    Just Another Times Square View

    July 9, 2014

    The perfect ski outfit

    March 12, 2013
  • Actors,  Artists,  Colour,  Daily photo,  Reportage,  Winter

    Il barbiere di Siviglia – Don Bartolo mad at Rosina

    November 28, 2020 /

    A shot from the mise en scene of the Il Barbiere di Siviglia I did as a scene-photgrapher for the Teatro Marrucino

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    The Mystique of Film

    August 24, 2022

    A Curious Bystander

    December 24, 2013

    The Expired Film Series – Episode 3 – Ilford HP5 400 – Dec. 2010 shot in August 2023

    August 30, 2023
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Docks,  Exhibitions

    Inside the Nazario Sauro

    November 26, 2020 /

    An important piece of history of the Italian Navy, at the anchor in the Port of Genova.

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    Batklubben

    July 23, 2016

    A Street Dancer@Sakae

    August 9, 2019

    Nico Cilli Band Live@Città Sant’Angelo

    October 23, 2013
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Marketing,  Nagoya,  Reportage,  Travels

    Nagoya’s reportage featured in The Good Life

    October 29, 2020 /

    The Good Life‘s October issue features my photoreportage of Nagoya.

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    Stylish

    March 16, 2014

    Segway Chase in Villa Borghese

    April 27, 2013

    Inside the Elevator

    May 9, 2014
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Doors&Windows,  Past&Relics,  Summer

    The Answer is On the Wall

    August 28, 2020 /

    A tribute to The Hitchkiker Guide to the Galaxy.

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    On Detachment. Or ‘If You Love Something, Set It Free’ (cit. Sting)

    June 17, 2025

    Different Stories

    December 30, 2023

    Traffic Jam in Rome

    December 14, 2015
  • Actors,  Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  PhotoCritics

    Meaning in Photography

    March 4, 2020 /

    In this picture, taken during the reportage I did for the Teatro Marrucino’s I Miserabili, an old and exhausted fighter rests while a young citoyen waves the French flag defying the fire of the royalists. The strength of the picture is in the dialectics created by the two protagonists, hinting at a “relay” between an old man that “gave all”, resting while a young man steps in.

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    Just In Case

    June 9, 2014

    Guess Who’s the Human?

    October 12, 2013

    Late Afternoon Workers

    December 23, 2013
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  PhotoCritics,  Reportage,  Winter

    Denegata Justitia

    March 2, 2020 /

    Sometimes a picture acquires a meaning that goes beyond the original intent of the photographer. In this case, taken from a reportage I did for Victor Hugo’s Les Miserables featured at Teatro Marrrucino, in Chieti, the photography becomes the archetype of the denegata Justitia. The defendant asks to speak, the justice stares elsewhere.

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    Seine

    June 9, 2015

    The Double Helix

    October 13, 2013

    Hanging

    January 19, 2015
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  PhotoCritics,  Technique,  Winter

    Breaking the Fourth Wall

    February 17, 2020 /

    Shooting a play is challenging because you must be ready to seize ‘the moment’ and, at the very same time, think of unusual compositions to avoid the boring ‘frontal’ perspective. Shooting part of the reportage from the backstage of Hamlet, with Giorgio Pasotti and Mariangela D’Abbraccio directed by Francesco Tavassi I had the possibility to experiment the breaking of the fourth wall. This picture is one of the results.

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    Fun

    November 12, 2014

    Stantsted Lounge’s Chairs

    December 31, 2013

    Diner After the Show

    July 7, 2013
  • Artists,  Colour,  Daily photo,  PhotoCritics,  Technique

    Counter-intuitive Focus

    February 9, 2020 /

    This photo I took during a reportage for a theatre hosting a concert of Uto Ughi shows a counter-intuitive use of focusing. Rather than go for the obvious option, the attention is shifted on the two musicians in the background capturing their concentration, with the leading violin blurred and conceptually, thus, ‘left behind’. The global effect is reinforced by a neat separation between the dark and light parts of the frame.

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    A Rudder

    February 19, 2021

    None of Your Business

    October 2, 2013

    Get Ready for The Duty

    July 13, 2013
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  PhotoCritics,  Technique,  Winter

    When Colour Helps Composition

    February 7, 2020 /

    This photo I took during a reportage of Miseria e nobiltà – a classic of the Neapolitan comedy by Eduardo Scarpetta – in the mise en scene of Lello Arena e Luciano Melchionna gives a lot of insights on how composition works. The triangle designed by the two actors on the sides and the taller actress in the centre is reinforced by the colours of the costumes: black in the centre, white in the sides. Finally, the purple background behind the black figure enhances the eye-driving effect toward the centre.

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    Avvocati. A New Book

    October 11, 2015

    Horizon Bending, Again

    April 28, 2014

    Distraction

    February 10, 2016
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