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  • B&W,  Daily photo,  Oslo,  Parks,  People

    The Wild Bunch

    September 30, 2014 /

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    Evolution in Red

    November 20, 2019

    My first shot (with purpose)

    December 22, 2012

    On the Range

    December 6, 2015
  • Autumn,  Bruxelles,  Colour,  Daily photo,  Gates&Fences

    The Path To Freedom

    September 29, 2014 /

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    Fancy a beer?

    November 3, 2021

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

    August 30, 2023

    Quality Check. Try Before You Buy

    April 10, 2014
  • Autumn,  B&W,  Daily photo,  Docks,  Oslo,  People

    Running On The (Oslo’s) Docks

    September 28, 2014 /

    The moment lasted a fraction of a second. I was walking along the Oslo harbour, camera hanging loosely, eyes half on the ships and half on the geometry of the paving stones when he entered the frame — the runner. Perfect posture, right leg extended mid-stride, left arm balancing out the rhythm, and most crucially, isolated against the background clutter of docked ships and cranes. This image isn’t about the athleticism. It’s about pace, solitude, and counterpoint. The city rests behind him, still and orderly, while he pushes forward, cutting through the quiet with motion and intention. He’s small against the marine industrial backdrop, but all attention lands on him.…

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

    May 8, 2024

    Should I Buy It? (Best Taken With an 85mm)

    January 23, 2016

    Get Ready, Set, Go

    February 2, 2022
  • Bruxelles,  Colour,  Daily photo,  People

    Ceci N’Est Pas Une Pipe

    September 27, 2014 /

    The man stands on the pavement, absorbed in the small object between his fingers. From a distance, it could be mistaken for a pipe, but it is not — hence the title. The illusion, momentary and context-dependent, mirrors Magritte’s provocation: our assumptions often run ahead of the facts. I composed this with a clear separation of subject and background. The warm, textured brown of his jacket isolates him against the cooler tones of concrete and foliage, pulling the eye immediately toward him. The alignment along the right-hand third of the frame keeps the sidewalk stretching away into the background, giving a sense of space and urban depth. Technically, the exposure…

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    Is This My Breakfast? (Kirobo, the new Pinocchio)

    December 14, 2014

    Damned Pidgeons…

    October 8, 2017

    Technogym Milan@Night

    April 3, 2022
  • Autumn,  Cars&Bikes,  Cities,  Colour,  Daily photo,  Downtown,  Oslo

    A Taxi Night Fleet At Oslo’s Central Station

    September 26, 2014 /

    I took this frame at a moment of pure symmetry and friction. The way taxi lines form outside Oslo Central Station at night—almost militaristic in their discipline, yet each vehicle pulsing with its own colour rhythm—felt like an urban ballet set to the low hum of idling engines and the soft scuff of rubber on wet cobblestones. Technically, night shots like this are unforgiving. The cold light from the LEDs clashes sharply with the warmth of the taillights and the overhead sodium vapour glow, which is why I resisted neutralising the colour balance too much. The visual tension between the icy blue reflected on the left and the bleeding red…

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    When We Thought We Would Have Changed The World

    August 21, 2014

    Claws of Fire

    September 27, 2017

    Rest on the lake

    April 29, 2013
  • B&W,  Cities,  Daily photo,  People,  Rome

    Street Crossing

    September 17, 2014 /

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    A true cricket?

    September 16, 2013

    When Colour Helps Composition

    February 7, 2020

    A solitary journey

    December 24, 2012
  • Autumn,  B&W,  Daily photo,  Rome,  Streets&Squares

    Via Collina, Empty, From Above

    September 13, 2014 /

    The perspective is vertical, as if leaning out and looking straight down. Cars line both sides of the narrow street, parked in strict succession, their roofs forming a patchwork of tones. The pavement and façades edge the scene, flattening into geometry under the camera’s angle. At the centre, however, the street itself is bare—an unexpected strip of emptiness in a crowded frame. Composition relies on symmetry and repetition. The rhythm of vehicles, rectangles of windows, and parallel lines of pavement create a structured grid. The lamppost, suspended on its wire, interrupts this order with a curve, offering a counterpoint to the rectilinear logic. Two pedestrians near the corner introduce scale,…

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    Coffee at Caffè Nero

    July 16, 2023

    Orange Scarf

    November 9, 2014

    National Security

    April 4, 2014
  • Autumn,  Colour,  Daily photo,  London,  OutOfFocus

    London Swash

    September 3, 2014 /

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    Arrested Behind the Door

    March 29, 2015

    The Lifeguard’s Tools

    August 24, 2013

    A Beverage Dispenser

    November 21, 2014
  • Barcelona,  Boulevards,  Colour,  Daily photo,  People

    Waiting For The Bus On Las Ramblas

    August 19, 2014 /

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    Scarf’s Meeting

    March 5, 2014

    Garbage As Usual – Pantheon’s Nearby

    October 4, 2019

    Does It Worth It?

    May 22, 2017
  • Barcelona,  Colour,  Daily photo,  People

    Tattoos in Barcelona

    August 18, 2014 /

    The sunlight was sharp, bouncing off stone and glass, cutting strong highlights across shoulders and pavement. I didn’t ask them to slow down or acknowledge me; I simply kept pace for a few steps, paying attention to posture, rhythm, and the way bodies occupy shared space.

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    A Silohuette on the Bridge

    March 3, 2014

    People

    December 21, 2012

    Coffee Doesn’t Need a Table. It Needs a Moment

    June 17, 2013
  • Bookstores,  Colour,  Daily photo,  New York,  Spring

    Santino’s Photo& Video at Broadway

    August 7, 2014 /

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    Drying Clothes

    March 9, 2021

    The Businessman…

    February 9, 2013

    Boat Maintenance At Genova’s Porto Antico

    July 30, 2014
  • Colour,  Court,  Daily photo,  Photo Journalism,  Photography,  Rome,  Street Photography,  Thoughts

    The Street Photographer Rights In Italy. The Leaflet

    July 10, 2014 /

    Here is an easy-to-carry A4 leaflet to be used in case you are confronted by a law enforcement agent of officer that question your Street Photography activity. Legal issues apart, please remember to always be polite and to help the officer not to look goofy or ignorant (as he actually would) in front of the public. Q. Does taking people’s photography in public spaces infringes sec. 615 bis of the criminal code? A. NO. Under the Corte di cassazione ruling n. 47165/2010 outdoor there is no reasonable privacy expectation, as there is no reasonable privacy expectation in case of tacit – while non equivocal – withdrawal of this right, as…

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    Did You Forget Something?

    October 3, 2016

    The Mailbox

    May 5, 2013

    Though Choice

    June 23, 2014
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  New York,  Spring,  Streets&Squares

    Just Another Times Square View

    July 9, 2014 /

    Memories from the past…

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    Late for Lunch

    March 26, 2014

    Walking at Night, in Milan

    September 30, 2013

    Who Dares Wins

    February 7, 2013
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  New York,  Restaurants&Bar,  Spring,  Travels

    Mulberry Street, When Benito II Was Still There…

    July 7, 2014 /

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    Garbage As Usual – Pantheon’s Nearby

    October 4, 2019

    Footprints

    May 19, 2013

    How to Shoot an Handball Match with a Film Camera

    May 25, 2024
  • Boulevards,  Colour,  Daily photo,  Downtown,  New York,  Spring

    Arriba El Mexico!

    July 3, 2014 /

    I took this photograph from the passenger seat of a cab, during that suspended moment when traffic stalls and the city becomes a collage of reflections and colour. The small felt figure hanging from the mirror caught my attention first—bright, slightly absurd, and placed without irony. The tiny sombrero, the stitched flag, the green felt body: a souvenir turned mascot, living in the blurred space between décor and identity. What interested me was how this small object commanded the frame. The background—city lights, signage, fragments of buildings—exists only as colour fields and soft shapes. The mirror picks up hints of the driver, the interior, and the street behind us, but…

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    Who Is The Machine?

    August 5, 2019

    Different Financial Transactions

    November 3, 2016

    London Panning

    December 30, 2013
  • Buildings,  Colour,  Daily photo,  Downtown,  New York

    A Zeppelin in The New York Sky

    July 2, 2014 /

    New York, 2000. I remember looking up from the crowded streets and seeing it — a zeppelin, drifting slowly above the jagged canyon of Midtown’s architecture. In that moment, it felt like something out of a different century had quietly slipped into ours. I didn’t have much time to think; I just framed, focused, and released the shutter. The composition is as much about absence as it is about presence. The airship is small, almost swallowed by the negative space of the sky, yet the buildings act as monumental bookends, forcing the eye toward the centre. The turquoise cast of the glass facade on the left and the warm brick…

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    Different Paths

    December 26, 2012

    PI Room At Palais de la Découverte

    June 7, 2015

    The Google Experiment

    February 1, 2014
  • Barcelona,  Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  Spring,  Street Markets

    The Spanish Sense of Flesh – 2

    June 28, 2014 /

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    Red Bag, Black Shoes

    November 27, 2014

    Horizon Bending, Again

    April 28, 2014

    Tough Enough

    August 7, 2019
  • Bruxelles,  Colour,  Daily photo,  Restaurants&Bar,  Winter

    Nightlife in Bruxelles

    June 27, 2014 /

    You can smell it before you hear it — the warm hum of beer, laughter, breath crystallising in the cold. This photo, taken in the backstreets of Brussels, isn’t a postcard of nightlife. It’s a sketch. Loose, fast, half in shadow. Which makes it all the more true. Cafés and pubs stack signs on top of each other like citations — Delirium, Floris Bar, Café, Pub, Garden. Every name lit, every door half-open, promising exactly what you need at this hour. But the terrace tables are empty, stacked in rows like punctuation marks between stories. It’s too cold to sit. Too late to be still. The people gather where the…

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    @Rome Maker Faire – 7. Mobile Rest

    October 23, 2014

    Forza Italia

    July 12, 2021

    Much Too Powerful a Knock…

    June 3, 2014
  • Barcelona,  Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  Spring,  Street Markets

    The Spanish Sense of Flesh – 1

    June 26, 2014 /

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    Over There!

    May 29, 2022

    A Lamppost

    November 26, 2014

    Up from the Waterline

    December 3, 2016
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  Rome,  Spring,  Street Markets

    Though Choice

    June 23, 2014 /

    It doesn’t take much to make your day happy.

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    The Man Behind The Croissant

    December 13, 2014

    ChitChat in a sunny day

    January 4, 2013

    Wet Socks

    July 19, 2014
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Milan,  People,  Winter

    Zebra Crossing, Again…

    June 22, 2014 /

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    Kristina Miller live@Teatro Marrucino

    February 21, 2022

    Outside the Courthall

    April 15, 2015

    Addicted to (Nintendo) Switch

    July 6, 2017
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  Rome,  Street Markets

    Square Three

    June 20, 2014 /

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    Missed Airplane

    December 4, 2017

    Italy, Street-Photography and The Law – A Real Case

    October 3, 2014

    Late Night Arrival at Bertinoro’s Castle

    January 15, 2014
  • B&W,  Daily photo,  People,  Rome

    What Are You Looking At?

    June 19, 2014 /

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    An Early Morning Fishing Expedition

    July 29, 2014

    The Jewels Sale

    November 18, 2015

    Street Magic@Nagoya Castle

    July 21, 2019
  • Daily photo,  People,  Rome

    Square Two

    June 18, 2014 /

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    Sergey Krylov live@Teatro Marrucino

    February 21, 2022

    José Ignacio Franco – Live@Auditorium Petruzzi

    July 31, 2022

    Portrait of a Gunsmith

    February 24, 2016
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