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  • Beach&Shores,  Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  WideAngle

    Footprint

    April 24, 2014 /

    Still… wideing.

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    Andrea Monti

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    A (Soon) Lost Banner

    November 1, 2018

    Amex

    May 25, 2015

    Footprints

    May 19, 2013
  • Beach&Shores,  Chairs&Seats,  Colour,  Daily photo,  People

    Do Not Disturb the News Reader

    February 24, 2014 /

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    Andrea Monti

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    What’s the Time?

    October 8, 2019

    Hanging Towels

    March 29, 2014

    Davide Grotta – Live

    December 8, 2018
  • Beach&Shores,  Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  Winter

    Blowin in the Wind

    February 8, 2014 /

    Hopefully, he shouldn’t fall on the ground…

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    Andrea Monti

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    Dai Shodo@Kyoto

    December 2, 2020

    Stop

    December 6, 2018

    Helping the Elders

    July 10, 2019
  • Beach&Shores,  Colour,  Daily photo,  Docks,  Winter

    Let’s get the party started…

    January 20, 2014 /

    You never know… maybe some fish might slip from the fishermen’s hands!

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    Sting of the Vespa

    March 7, 2025

    The Silent Listeners

    December 27, 2013

    Modern Times

    January 6, 2013
  • B&W,  Beach&Shores,  Daily photo,  Gear,  Photography,  Winter

    The Hasselblad Way

    January 2, 2014 /

    As the readers of this blog know, I seldom talk about gear because since the very first post on this blog I made a point of stay focused on (shooting) pictures instead of musing about pointless technicalities such as Camera A vs Camera B ISO performance, Lens X vs Lens Y sharpness, APS-C vs Full Frame and so on, but today I do an exception because of an old Hasselbld 500 C/M that I have been given to try (and that probably will buy.) There is only one way to shoot with a Hasselblad: following its rule. The film has to be loaded in a certain way, the magazine locked…

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    Player&Listener

    June 30, 2014

    Different Load

    June 23, 2015

    A true cricket?

    September 16, 2013
  • Beach&Shores,  Colour,  Daily photo,  Winter

    Landed

    December 19, 2013 /

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    Andrea Monti

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    EOS-M. Manual focus tips and results for Street-Photography and more

    August 9, 2013

    Conversation

    November 27, 2013

    The Commuter

    July 24, 2017
  • B&W,  Beach&Shores,  Daily photo,  Docks,  Landscape

    The Seagull’s Rest

    December 18, 2013 /

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    Andrea Monti

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    Steve Hackett – Live@Teatro d’Annunzio

    July 8, 2017

    Frank Gambale All Stars – Live@Teatro Marrucino

    November 22, 2023

    School of Mathematics@Sapienza University of Rome

    November 10, 2018
  • B&W,  Beach&Shores,  Daily photo,  Garbage,  People

    An urgent phone call?

    December 15, 2013 /

    Using a tele (200 mm)  allowed me to take the picture but the long focal didn’t separate the planes as a 50 mm would. Truth is that – in these condition – I would hardly have been close enough to obtain the visual effect I was looking for, but the alternative was not to take the shot at all.

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    The Solitude of Power

    May 6, 2018

    A Shooter

    December 8, 2017

    Almost Spotted

    February 27, 2014
  • Beach&Shores,  Colour,  Daily photo,  Docks,  Winter

    The AfterTide

    December 12, 2013 /

    After the tide, the river comes back to normality, while the boatmen account for the damages

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    Much Too Powerful a Knock…

    June 3, 2014

    Pure Joy

    May 25, 2014

    Giorgio Pasotti – Racconti disumani@Teatro Marrucino

    February 28, 2022
  • Beach&Shores,  Colour,  Daily photo,  Docks,  Winter

    Saving the Boat

    December 11, 2013 /

    The tide is coming, and a sailor works hard to protect his boat.

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    Andrea Monti

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    The Sorcerer’s Shop

    November 1, 2016

    Early Morning Shaving on The Beach

    August 6, 2013

    Kite Surfer Under Duress

    January 29, 2021
  • Beach&Shores,  Colour,  Daily photo,  Streets&Squares,  Urban Landscape

    Parking Lot

    December 8, 2013 /

    Something wrong, over there?

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    Should I Stay

    November 29, 2013

    Isolation in public spaces

    November 10, 2023

    Questioning the Referee

    October 8, 2023
  • Beach&Shores,  Colour,  Daily photo,  People

    So What?

    December 7, 2013 /

    Does anybody come to help me?

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    Andrea Monti

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    Hanging News

    June 18, 2013

    Hair Cut

    July 19, 2013

    Tattoos in Barcelona

    August 18, 2014
  • Beach&Shores,  Colour,  Daily photo,  Landscape

    The Sinking Giant

    December 6, 2013 /

    Well, a tree, actually, but the praying hands suggestion is way too strong to be unnoticed

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    Andrea Monti

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    Pop Art in Hamburg

    April 24, 2018

    A Street Dancer@Sakae

    August 9, 2019

    HeadButt

    August 5, 2023
  • Autumn,  Beach&Shores,  Daily Video,  Landscape,  Rome

    Under the Bridge

    November 6, 2013 /

    Here I am again with a video…

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    Andrea Monti

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    Sharp Shooter

    March 10, 2015

    The Alien’s Seat

    October 19, 2013

    The Crew’s Rest

    July 20, 2014
  • Beach&Shores,  Colour,  Daily photo

    Good Manners

    September 29, 2013 /

    … comes from childhood

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    Andrea Monti

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    Mind The Gap!

    July 5, 2014

    Red Moon at the end of August

    September 1, 2023

    Parking Lot

    December 8, 2013
  • Beach&Shores,  Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  Seasons

    Wave Riders

    September 20, 2013 /

    It was just matter of time before I decided to go video. A lot of work to do before even think of getting some result…

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    Andrea Monti

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    Have fun…

    July 12, 2013

    Lotus Tweak

    July 31, 2015

    An inconvenient way to spend time.

    March 15, 2013
  • Beach&Shores,  Colour,  Daily photo,  Summer

    In a yellowtone…

    September 17, 2013 /

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    Wet Socks

    July 19, 2014

    Nikkor 16mm Fisheye – Three Ways to Make use of Such a Lens

    August 22, 2024

    A Casual Walk

    March 6, 2015
  • Beach&Shores,  Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  Summer

    Parachute

    September 14, 2013 /

    Didn’t have a wider lens, so I got the most interesting part of the frame…

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    Andrea Monti

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    Even

    July 9, 2016

    Room 17 – VIXI

    March 27, 2015

    Visual

    January 18, 2013
  • Beach&Shores,  Colour,  Daily photo,  Summer

    L’estate sta finendo…

    September 13, 2013 /

    L’estate sta finendo (the Summer is going to end) sang and old Italo Disco tune from The Righeira. The very first sign of Autumn to come is the cleaning and the storing of the beach chairs…

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    Milan

    March 19, 2015

    Sting of the Vespa

    March 7, 2025

    Three Lamposts

    June 11, 2022
  • Beach&Shores,  Colour,  Daily photo,  Summer

    Lifeguard

    August 24, 2013 /

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    Legal Apartheid

    March 25, 2015

    Waiting for the Fish

    December 18, 2021

    Waiting For The Patrons – 1

    June 17, 2015
  • Beach&Shores,  Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  Summer

    Gotcha!

    August 16, 2013 /

    It was the contrast that caught my eye. A man stands knee-deep in the Adriatic shallows, focused, precise, moving a small blue net through the water like he’s brushing dust off glass. He’s working under the shadow of a trabocco—a towering wooden fishing machine, all cables and beams, designed to drop massive nets and haul in fish by the hundreds. The kind of structure that speaks of industry, tradition, scale. But here he is. Alone. Shirtless. Waist-deep. Fishing by hand. The second frame pulls back. You see it all—the full span of the trabocco, its arms stretched wide like a maritime cathedral. And at the base, dwarfed by design, the same man…

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    Servicing a Sig Sauer P226

    December 16, 2017

    Steve Hackett – Live@Teatro d’Annunzio

    July 8, 2017

    Pentax k-5 And The Aquapack 458

    August 15, 2014
  • Beach&Shores,  Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  Summer

    Uncertainity

    August 11, 2013 /

    Should I Board?

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    After a Tough Day

    January 30, 2016

    Pillars

    January 29, 2015

    @ Mediterranean Beach Games 2015 – Italian Female Rowing Team

    October 25, 2015
  • B&W,  Beach&Shores,  Daily photo,  People,  Seasons,  Summer

    Early Morning Shaving on The Beach

    August 6, 2013 /

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    Phone Call – 1

    February 18, 2015

    Is This Smoke?

    August 15, 2013

    Wonder wall…

    June 8, 2021
  • Beach&Shores,  Colour,  Daily photo,  Landscape,  Summer

    A Lost Towel

    July 3, 2013 /

    No one around. Just sun, sand, and something left behind. The beach was empty when I passed through—early or late, hard to say—but this towel was there, alone, crumpled and vivid. Its colours refused to blend in: yellows, reds, a printed image of something once meaningful, now half-folded by the wind. It didn’t look forgotten. It looked abandoned. What caught my eye more than the towel was what surrounded it: tyre marks, footprints, all criss-crossing paths layered into the sand. As if everyone passed by but no one stopped. It felt recent, but not urgent—like whoever left it didn’t mean to come back. The shot came together quickly. Low angle…

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    October 8, 2023

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    December 8, 2014

    (Tokyo) Taxi Driver

    June 17, 2018
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