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  • Artists,  Colour,  Daily photo

    A Master Luthier in his lab…

    May 14, 2013 /

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    Marianna D’ama – Live

    December 2, 2018

    Poetry Still Survives

    June 7, 2014

    Caught In The Act… Almost

    October 4, 2018
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  Restaurants&Bar

    An interesting reading

    May 13, 2013 /

    To seat or no to seat?

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    Lost Cigarettes at Piazza Affari

    January 22, 2014

    Multiple Peripheral Visions

    February 10, 2016

    Accidental Precision

    February 12, 2016
  • 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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    Who Can It Be Now?

    February 18, 2016

    Tough Enough

    January 27, 2013

    An update on the poor Canon EOS-M autofocus

    March 30, 2013
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Restaurants&Bar

    The three musket(b)eer

    May 11, 2013 /

    Guess who’s Porthos?

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    A Sad Cat in a Neko Cafè

    August 5, 2018

    Questioning the Referee

    October 8, 2023

    In a yellowtone…

    September 17, 2013
  • 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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    Late Evening Break In Piazza Dante

    October 21, 2017

    Another Bridge

    September 23, 2019

    A ‘Trabocco’ on the Adriatic Sea

    April 20, 2021
  • 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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    Ghosts of Ginza

    November 14, 2023

    Countersniping

    February 7, 2014

    Ninja-Turtles?

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

    The Icecream is ready to be served

    May 8, 2013 /

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    Rocco Zifarelli, Jeff Berlin, Beth&Danny Gottlieb, Gabriela Sinagra

    June 10, 2013

    Wasted Shot Because iPhone 7 Poor Low-Light Handling

    January 22, 2019

    Off-Duty Eurocrats in Bruxelles

    March 28, 2014
  • 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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    What Could I Do?

    April 18, 2016

    A Quiet Evening

    June 26, 2013

    A Casual Walk

    March 6, 2015
  • 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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    Into The Cube

    November 18, 2014

    Counter-intuitive Focus

    February 9, 2020

    Poetry Still Survives

    June 7, 2014
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Streets&Squares

    The Mailbox

    May 5, 2013 /

    No News, Good News.

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    Still Ruling The Empire

    February 5, 2022

    A Vessel Moored on the Pier

    September 27, 2022

    Ceci N’Est Pas Une Pipe

    September 27, 2014
  • 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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    Is This My Breakfast? (Kirobo, the new Pinocchio)

    December 14, 2014

    Action! (beware of Fuji X-Pro 2)

    February 2, 2016

    Bus Driver

    September 16, 2016
  • Beach&Shores,  Colour,  Daily photo,  People

    Fashionable’s shots

    May 3, 2013 /

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    George Braque

    October 11, 2013

    A Skull

    August 18, 2015

    St. Peter in Background

    December 5, 2013
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Gates&Fences

    Iron Gate

    May 2, 2013 /

    When craftmanship meets art.

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    Too Big To Be Dumped

    January 10, 2015

    The perfect ski outfit

    March 12, 2013

    Street Food in Via Salaria

    March 13, 2014
  • B&W,  Daily photo,  Social Control

    Big Brother Enhanced

    May 1, 2013 /

    Shot at Gardaland.

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    Belgian Macarons

    November 2, 2015

    The Glassmaster

    September 4, 2017

    Turiddu repeals Santuzza

    November 19, 2022
  • 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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    Out for a While

    September 26, 2013

    Desolation

    May 13, 2015

    Handling the Fishnet

    October 28, 2014
  • Beach&Shores,  Colour,  Daily photo,  People

    Rest on the lake

    April 29, 2013 /

    enjoying some fruit.

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    Falling Tree

    May 8, 2014

    Out for a ride…

    January 2, 2013

    Smile!

    August 7, 2013
  • 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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    The Bored Bassman

    March 16, 2013

    Negrita’s Cover Band

    September 19, 2013

    Splinter

    March 13, 2021
  • Cars&Bikes,  Colour,  Daily photo,  Rome

    Segway Chase in Villa Borghese

    April 27, 2013 /

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    Different Financial Transactions

    November 3, 2016

    Is AI-generated art actually killing ‘real’ Art?

    September 16, 2022

    The Expired Film Series – Episode 5 – Kodak Tri X 400 – September 2015 shot in Sept. 2023

    May 8, 2024
  • Artists,  B&W,  Daily photo

    Snaps of a Flamenco recital…

    April 26, 2013 /

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    Portrait of a Perinatal Cardiologist

    July 11, 2014

    Belgian Gloves

    October 15, 2015

    Wasubot. A Stiff Organ Player@Tsukuba

    June 21, 2018
  • 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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    @ Mediterranean Beach Games 2015 – Italian Female Rowing Team

    October 25, 2015

    St. Peter in Background

    December 5, 2013

    Viltrox AF85/1,8 II XF. Reflexless?

    April 2, 2021
  • 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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    The Glassmaster

    September 4, 2017

    Tired or Fascinated?

    October 21, 2013

    @ Mediterranean Beach Games 2015 – Italian Beach Volley Team – Marco Caminati (and a primer on sport photography, part 6)

    October 13, 2015
  • Artists,  B&W,  Daily photo

    Shade of Berlin

    April 23, 2013 /

    … Jeff, Berlin.

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    Bent

    July 13, 2014

    A Missed Pricetag?

    January 29, 2013

    Street Of New York… Possibly

    March 21, 2017
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Gates&Fences,  People

    Knocking on lion’s door

    April 22, 2013 /

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    The Straycat

    December 3, 2013

    A ‘Trabocco’ on the Adriatic Sea

    April 20, 2021

    Square Three

    June 20, 2014
  • Cities,  Daily photo,  Rome

    Roman Break

    April 21, 2013 /

    The light was harsh that day in Piazza di Spagna, shadows cutting deep, reflections flaring off windshields and stone. I was walking without intent, Leica in hand, when I noticed these two men — coachmen, likely — parked in the shade of their own carriage, deep in conversation. Their posture was telling: relaxed, inward-facing, close without being performative. Whatever was being said wasn’t for anyone else. It was a moment of pause between tourists, an honest interruption in a day spent performing a role. The scene called for monochrome. Colour would have distracted from the shapes and lines — the interlocked limbs, the glint off the bridle, the folds in…

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    What (or Who) Are These Hangs For?

    May 21, 2013

    John De Leo’s Grande Abarasse Orchestra – Live

    February 10, 2015

    Has street-photography a limit?

    December 19, 2012
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