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  • B&W,  Boulevards,  Bruxelles,  Daily photo,  Streets&Squares,  Winter

    5 (random) frames of Bruxelles with a MIR-1B, a Pentax ME Super and a Kodak TMax400

    March 19, 2025 /

    The late hours of a day are dangerous times, because this is when the mind, lacking tasks, begins to look for a way to keep itself busy. To make a long story short, this is why, against what the common sense would have suggested, I decided to take a stroll in a (very) cold winter evening along and around Avenue Louise in Bruxelles to test a MIR-1B 37/2.8 mounted on a TMAX 400 loaded Pentax ME Super with an M42 adapter. Initially published on 35mmc.com. As much as this is not a ‘field test’, I was unfair to the lens because I used it in challenging conditions, starting with the…

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    The Day of the Zombies

    October 23, 2016

    Waiting for the goal

    April 28, 2013

    Bored

    March 7, 2013
  • Actors,  Autumn,  B&W,  Bruxelles,  Colour,  Daily photo,  Fighters,  Fighting Disciplines,  Photography,  Spring,  Summer,  Winter

    What Does ‘Professional’ Mean in Photography?

    March 19, 2024 /

    Pro’ is the photographer’s blessing and curse. It is the status we all – well, many of us – aspire to. It is the marketing gimmick created by the exploiters of the Gear Acquisition Syndrome to make people believe that tools make the craftsman. ‘Amateur’, on the other hand, is a word associated with casual photographers, ‘wannabe’ artists, and people who want to make you believe that tools make the craftsman. I have always been unconvinced that such a difference exists, at least in the general meaning associated with the words ‘pro’ and ‘amateur’, and in relation to the idea that the equipment used or the quality of the shots…

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    Blow Up

    November 13, 2014

    Floating Flower

    May 19, 2015

    A Quiet Evening

    June 26, 2013
  • Bruxelles,  Colour,  Daily photo,  Downtown,  Jewelry,  Winter

    Floating

    February 5, 2023 /

    The Panasonic TZ100 is a very good travel camera. Its one-inch sensor allows a fair balance between performance and portability. Being slightly bigger of trendy smartphones, this camera delivers a way more better results.

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    Dark Cloud Over San Pietro

    August 27, 2021

    As Seen on Ferrania Film’ Stories section…

    December 4, 2023

    A true cricket?

    September 16, 2013
  • Bruxelles,  Colour,  Daily photo,  Fashion Shops,  Seasons,  Winter

    Cleaning the Tabernacle

    November 26, 2022 /

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    José Ignacio Franco – Live@Auditorium Petruzzi

    July 31, 2022

    Guru Meditation

    May 12, 2014

    People

    December 21, 2012
  • Bruxelles,  Colour,  Daily photo,  Downtown,  People,  Winter

    We Are All Made of Stars

    February 28, 2018 /

    The street is slick with rain, fenced for works in progress, cluttered with signs and barriers. Yet above it all, the stars have returned — bright, geometric, electric — heralding the slow, luminous arrival of Christmas in Brussels. A lone figure walks toward the camera, wrapped in a scarf and his own thoughts. He is grounded, ordinary, human. But above him, a constellation of neon dreams stretches deep into the vanishing point, inviting passersby to look up, to believe, even if just for a moment. This photograph captures the paradox of the urban winter: cold, messy, fractured — and yet luminous with potential. The construction fences are still up, the…

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    A Grocery Store

    November 5, 2014

    Under The Bridge

    June 27, 2016

    Lightspeed

    August 6, 2015
  • Bruxelles,  Colour,  Daily photo,  Restaurants&Bar,  Winter

    Menu Meditation

    February 16, 2018 /

    There’s a particular silence in cafés just before ordering. That moment when the cold air from outside still clings to your coat, and all attention narrows to laminated options and the quiet negotiations of hunger. This was taken on a grey afternoon in Brussels. A couple sits across from each other, each reading their own menu as if studying for an exam. No phones. No talking. Just decisions to be made: sweet or savoury, warm or cold, this or that. It’s a familiar ritual, yet rarely observed this closely. What drew me in wasn’t the scene’s drama—there was none—but its quietness. The soft concentration on their faces, the gentle lean…

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    Nico Cilli Band@Chiostro Comunale – Città S.Angelo

    September 9, 2013

    Too Big To Be Dumped

    January 10, 2015

    Fantozzi’s chairs

    May 4, 2013
  • Bruxelles,  Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  Streets&Squares,  Winter

    The Bystander

    February 5, 2018 /

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    Shadows&Lights

    March 7, 2014

    A Holy Sign

    October 13, 2021

    Ni

    January 26, 2014
  • Bruxelles,  Colour,  Daily photo,  Downtown,  Spring

    Intelligence Contest

    April 15, 2017 /

    A pane of glass separates two worlds. On one side, the hyper-stylised gaze of a model — digital, sculpted, aloof. His stare pierces outward from an ad inside a hair salon, promising precision, control, curated masculinity at €21. Behind the glossy veneer, real people go about their routines, dwarfed by the giant printed face that symbolises a synthetic ideal. On the other side, a cluster of balloons—soft, round, unformed—calls out with its own clumsy presence. Unintended perhaps, but visually evocative, the column of latex orbs resembles a puppet or caricature. In their simplicity, they reflect something the model cannot: humanity, imperfection, absurdity. The composition turns into theatre. A confrontation of…

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    Beach in black

    January 5, 2013

    As much as you’re far from home…

    April 5, 2013

    Does It Worth It?

    May 22, 2017
  • Bruxelles,  Colour,  Daily photo,  Downtown,  Patisserie,  Spring

    The Quest for Belgian Chocolate…

    April 11, 2017 /

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    Real Time Update

    February 20, 2016

    Wasubot. A Stiff Organ Player@Tsukuba

    June 21, 2018

    What a odd couple of bipedals…

    February 26, 2013
  • Bruxelles,  Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  Spring,  Streets&Squares

    Outdoor Aperitif

    April 7, 2017 /

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    A Smoker

    September 2, 2015

    One Shot (Plus One) Story – All That Lasts

    April 19, 2025

    Technological Memento

    June 26, 2021
  • Bruxelles,  Cars&Bikes,  Colour,  Daily photo,  Seasons,  Winter

    Traffic Master

    December 19, 2016 /

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    Servicing a Sig Sauer P226

    December 16, 2017

    The last flower

    May 20, 2013

    WTF Are They Looking At?

    May 7, 2014
  • Bruxelles,  Colour,  Daily photo,  Seasons,  Social Control,  Summer

    Safe Living (?)

    July 28, 2016 /

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    June 16, 2014

    The Odd Couple

    January 30, 2013

    Pop Art in Hamburg

    April 24, 2018
  • Autumn,  Bruxelles,  Colour,  Daily photo,  Visual

    Washed

    November 22, 2015 /

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    February 17, 2020

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    April 29, 2014

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    October 19, 2015
  • Autumn,  Bruxelles,  Colour,  Daily photo,  Patisserie,  People

    Belgian Chocolate – Godiva

    November 20, 2015 /

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    Gigi Cifarelli Guitar Solo (feat. Michele Di Toro) – Live@Florian Espace Pescara

    March 7, 2016

    Inside The Clocktower

    August 22, 2015

    Halt!

    December 28, 2017
  • Autumn,  Bruxelles,  Colour,  Daily photo,  Jewelry,  People

    The Jewels Sale

    November 18, 2015 /

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    An inconvenient way to spend time.

    March 15, 2013

    Lightblade

    September 6, 2013

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    September 10, 2013
  • Autumn,  Bruxelles,  Colour,  Daily photo,  Patisserie,  People

    Belgian Chocolate – Neuhaus

    November 16, 2015 /

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    August 3, 2014

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    February 12, 2015

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    August 24, 2013
  • Autumn,  Bookstores,  Bruxelles,  Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  Seasons

    Glancing Books

    November 12, 2015 /

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    November 18, 2015

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    December 17, 2013

    The Penguin’s Feeder

    July 25, 2014
  • Autumn,  Bruxelles,  Colour,  Daily photo,  Groceries,  People

    Fancy a Beer?

    November 10, 2015 /

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    June 23, 2015

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    August 21, 2018

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    October 7, 2023
  • Autumn,  Bruxelles,  Colour,  Daily photo,  Social Control

    Inside the Palaces of Power – Bruxelles

    November 8, 2015 /

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    March 3, 2013

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    January 18, 2013

    5 Frames with a Praktica MTL5B, a Pentacon 50/1,8 and a Roll of Portra 400 (expired in 2011)

    June 20, 2024
  • Autumn,  Bruxelles,  Colour,  Daily photo,  Seasons,  Streets&Squares

    RedLight

    November 6, 2015 /

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    January 22, 2025

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    September 3, 2013

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    September 5, 2013
  • Autumn,  Bruxelles,  Colour,  Daily photo,  Patisserie,  People

    Sweet Dilemma

    November 4, 2015 /

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    January 22, 2014
  • Bruxelles,  Cities,  Colour,  Daily photo,  Patisserie,  Winter

    Belgian Macarons

    November 2, 2015 /

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    July 5, 2013

    Helping the Elders

    July 10, 2019
  • Autumn,  Bruxelles,  Colour,  Daily photo,  Patisserie,  People

    Buying Chocolate

    October 31, 2015 /

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    June 25, 2015

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    March 2, 2015

    Caparezza – Live@Palamaggetti Roseto degli Abruzzi

    February 18, 2018
  • Autumn,  Bruxelles,  Colour,  Daily photo,  Patisserie

    Macarons. Again

    October 23, 2015 /

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    December 11, 2016

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    December 15, 2013

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    September 10, 2023
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