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  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Gear

    60×40 Borderless Printing with a HP Z3200ps 24

    May 11, 2014 /

    Printing a 60by40cm image on a A1 roll (61cm wide) should be a pretty straightforward task: well, not on a printer like the HP Z3200. To cut the story, here are the settings: set your image landscape, and size it 60 by 40 cm, set your CANVAS size to 61,8 by 41 cm with a white background (highlighted in red, in the picture) so that the final image size is, indeed, 61,8 by 41, In the Print Settings menu select the Paper Size option and set a custom page size of 61 by 40,5, Again, in the Print Settings menu select the Margins/Layout menu and check the  Borderless radio button,…

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    What Lasts of a Saturday Night Party

    January 24, 2014

    Protected: Prova Aurum

    April 25, 2014

    Under The Bridge

    June 27, 2016
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  Rome

    A Sunny day in Rome

    May 10, 2014 /

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    Out for a ride…

    January 2, 2013

    The Changer — Glass Walls, Paper Smiles, and Currency Drained

    October 12, 2013

    Winter Leaves

    December 9, 2014
  • Buildings,  Colour,  Daily photo,  Odds,  Rome,  Spring

    Inside the Elevator

    May 9, 2014 /

    Escher’s Relativity inspired these shots.

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    The Spanish Sense of Flesh – 1

    June 26, 2014

    The Soul Of Politics

    July 17, 2014

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    March 13, 2021
  • Beach&Shores,  Colour,  Daily photo,  Landscape,  Spring

    Falling Tree

    May 8, 2014 /

    Again, an impossible perspective…

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    Is the next Kano Jigoro already on the mat?

    November 7, 2013

    A Three Legged Commuter?

    July 21, 2017

    From Waltham to Boston

    August 4, 2023
  • Barcelona,  Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  Spring

    WTF Are They Looking At?

    May 7, 2014 /

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    Abruzzo’s made Coke??

    March 26, 2013

    A cigarette

    September 28, 2015

    Yet Another Dawn

    December 30, 2012
  • 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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    Though Choice

    June 23, 2014

    Stadio Olimpico, seen from Tribuna Monte Mario

    October 1, 2022

    Landing

    December 4, 2021
  • 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 London’s Skyline

    September 13, 2016

    No Tablet, No Problem

    April 12, 2013

    Through the Fog

    January 5, 2014
  • B&W

    Protected: Black&White

    May 4, 2014 /

    There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.

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    The Scooter

    March 1, 2013

    Tables and Chairs, at Night

    May 7, 2013

    Parisian’s Bags

    April 6, 2014
  • Artists,  Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  Portraits,  Spring

    Portrait of a young guitar player

    May 4, 2014 /

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    When Tilted Photos Work

    December 18, 2019

    A Rudder

    February 19, 2021

    The Ghost

    February 15, 2013
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  Portraits

    Portrait of a (former) bike champion

    May 3, 2014 /

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    George Braque

    October 11, 2013

    Snaps of a Flamenco recital…

    April 26, 2013

    Time Runs Fast And Unstoppable

    May 21, 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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    A Couch in the Yard

    November 18, 2013

    The Pulse of Passion: A Story Told in Red

    August 9, 2018

    Too Young to Spend Time Watching the Ducks in the Pond

    October 22, 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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    Snaps of a Flamenco recital…

    April 26, 2013

    The Suit

    July 15, 2013

    Ray-Ban in Milan

    October 5, 2015
  • 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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    Lost In Rembrance

    July 26, 2014

    Into The Cube

    November 18, 2014

    Al Di Meola, Peo Alfonsi, Sergio Martinez – Live @ Teatro della Villa Comunale – Roseto degli Abruzzi

    July 30, 2025
  • 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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    Zebra Crossing

    March 14, 2014

    Quis Custodiet…

    January 26, 2013

    Yellow

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

    Horizon Bending, Again

    April 28, 2014 /

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    The Waiting

    December 23, 2012

    Too Busy to Enjoy the Life…

    April 12, 2014

    Portrait of aTocaor

    October 8, 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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    December 19, 2012

    Half a Bridge

    October 16, 2016

    What Lasts of A Workbench

    February 22, 2015
  • 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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    March 10, 2016

    Mandatory Photo Position

    August 3, 2019

    The Ferrania Film Series – Episode 1 – Ferrania Orto shot on October/November 2023

    August 7, 2024
  • 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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    April 30, 2023

    Claws of Fire

    September 27, 2017

    Weight Training @ Rome’s Stadio Olimpico

    October 9, 2018
  • Beach&Shores,  Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  WideAngle

    Footprint

    April 24, 2014 /

    Still… wideing.

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    September 5, 2014

    Welcome in the New (?) Year

    January 1, 2014

    Footprints

    March 27, 2021
  • Bruxelles,  Colour,  Daily photo,  Garbage,  Spring

    Two Beers, One Cigarette

    April 23, 2014 /

    Not staged. Swear to God!

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    January 1, 2017

    Ninja-Turtles?

    April 30, 2014

    Portrait of a (former) bike champion

    May 3, 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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    March 22, 2014

    A Moto Guzzi Falcone and an Expired Kodak Portra 160 Roll

    October 25, 2025

    Who Needs A Wedding Photographer Anymore?

    May 29, 2014
  • 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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    July 17, 2019

    Parachute

    September 14, 2013

    Inside The Palace of Power

    September 17, 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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    The Crew’s Rest

    July 20, 2014

    Nature gets its space back…

    November 7, 2018

    Frames for Sale at Via Margutta

    May 2, 2016
  • 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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    September 11, 2013

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