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  • Beach&Shores,  Colour,  Daily photo,  Winter

    Happy New Year

    January 1, 2017 /

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    Now You See It…Street Juggler at a Red Light in Barcelona

    June 16, 2014

    Friend or Foe?

    January 21, 2013

    A Lost Towel

    July 3, 2013
  • Beach&Shores,  Colour,  Daily photo,  Winter

    Unkempt

    December 4, 2015 /

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    Conversations, Silences, and Street Life

    August 5, 2014

    The Real-Life Lens Test Series – Episode 1: Viltrox XF 56/1,4 AF

    June 6, 2024

    The Coach

    December 9, 2018
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Landscape,  Visual,  Winter

    Lost in Le Puglie

    December 2, 2015 /

    There are roads in Puglia that don’t go anywhere fast. This was one of them. Shot from behind the wheel, somewhere between nowhere and nowhere else, I caught this image of a slow-moving tractor framed by empty fields and a sky too wide to hold. The road is narrow, uneven, old—but it doesn’t complain. Like most things around here, it does its job without fuss. The light was gentle, just after afternoon, slipping into that moment where colour fades softly rather than drops off. The greens were still sharp, the sky leaning pale toward evening, and everything felt settled. No drama. No rush. What drew me in wasn’t the tractor…

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    Waiting for a Future to Tell

    April 18, 2013

    An inconvenient way to spend time.

    March 15, 2013

    Fancy a Beer?

    November 10, 2015
  • Autumn,  Beach&Shores,  Colour,  Daily photo,  People

    Perfectly Framed

    November 26, 2015 /

    Shot mid-morning, full sun. The geometry did the work before I raised the camera—white steel structure aligned perfectly with the vanishing line of the tiled path. I didn’t move to exaggerate it. I centred and waited. The figure stepped into place on her own. No staging, no instruction. The image hinges on alignment. Horizon dead flat. Frame edges square. The walkway pulls the eye through sand to sea, leading to the human anchor: black silhouette, back turned, red scarf cutting the blue. She’s secondary in scale but critical in balance. Focus was locked on the frame structure. Aperture at f/8 gave enough depth to keep the figure and horizon legible…

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    Lonely cart

    March 4, 2013

    Shadows&Lights

    March 7, 2014

    Just A Cat

    June 29, 2014
  • Beach&Shores,  Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  Soccer,  Sport,  Summer

    @ Mediterrean Beach Games 2015 – Italian Beach Soccer Team (and a primer on sport-photography, part 4)

    October 3, 2015 /

    Part 1 – Intro, Before the event, getting your media pass Part 2 – Before the event, having your media pass working for you Part 3 – During the event, get ready for the show 2 – How to choose which event attend to Possibly the most difficult thing to handle in multi-competition events is how to select the sport and the stage (qualifications, semi-finals, first-second place final etc.) Unless you’re working for a specific team as its official photographer or asked to mainly portrait sponsor’s banner (yes, this happens in sport-photography: athletes are just a way to channel the eyes on a chocolate bar or a bottle of wine),…

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    Portrait of a Cosplayer

    July 3, 2017

    A Great Marketing Stunt

    May 27, 2014

    So what?

    April 9, 2013
  • Beach&Shores,  Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  Soccer,  Sport,  Summer

    @ Mediterranean Beach Games 2015 – Italy Beach Soccer Team’s Goalkeeper (and a primer on sport photography, part 2)

    September 24, 2015 /

    2 – Have the media pass working for you Part 1 of this primer dealt with the topic “Getting Your Media Pass”.  Now is the time to use it properly. a – Meet the media-manager and participate to the technical briefing (or anyway get the relevant information about the competition) If the competition is big enough, chances are that the organizing committee has appointed a media-manager in charge of handling all the issues related to broadcasting services and photographers. You definitely need to talk to him as early as you can, to get: your numbered “photographer jacket” (often needed to access the competition fields), a leaflet with all the relevant…

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    Genta Fukue live@Sakura Terrace – Kyoto

    June 22, 2017

    Still Standing

    March 15, 2014

    Fireworks on Film

    January 19, 2013
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Landscape,  Summer

    Roots On The Roof

    September 6, 2015 /

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    Settled in the wrong place

    January 11, 2017

    An Abandoned Book…

    January 28, 2013

    Is This Photo Illegal?

    March 20, 2014
  • B&W,  Daily photo,  Landscape,  Moon,  Spring,  Visual

    Lunar Network Or Snowy Mountain?

    May 5, 2015 /

    This image was made at high altitude, but it could have been taken on the Moon. That’s what initially drew my eye: the surreal minimalism of these snow-covered slopes interrupted by a line of utility poles, stretched tight against the vast emptiness. The illusion of a lunar landscape is heightened by the total absence of sky detail—pure black, a void—and the almost abstract texture of the snow, exaggerated by strong directional sunlight. The decision to shoot in black and white came naturally. Colour would have been a distraction from the harsh geometry, from the juxtaposition of natural emptiness and imposed structure. Each pole, evenly spaced, is both part of a…

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    The dilemma

    January 11, 2013

    Stinky Shoes

    June 3, 2015

    Conversation

    September 14, 2017
  • Beach&Shores,  Colour,  Daily photo

    Rusted Platform

    April 25, 2015 /

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    Guess who’s happier?

    May 27, 2013

    Three Sprouts

    May 22, 2022

    Inside the Garrison

    May 14, 2014
  • Beach&Shores,  Chairs&Seats,  Colour,  Daily photo,  Restaurants&Bar

    A Lonely Table

    March 8, 2015 /

    I took this photograph through a glass window — not by oversight, but with full intention. The resulting layers were unpredictable, and that was the point. The sea outside, the perfectly set table inside, and the accidental human form reflected between them, all merged into a single ambiguous frame. At first glance, it’s just another seaside restaurant, waiting for guests. But spend a little time and the structure begins to unravel. The light played into my hands: late afternoon, strong enough to shape the objects on the table, yet soft enough to allow the reflections to register without dominating. The glass acted both as barrier and canvas. What you’re looking…

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    Sala degli Onori @ Triennale di Milano

    May 19, 2017

    Leaving Home

    December 5, 2014

    Portrait of a Politician – 2

    June 15, 2014
  • B&W,  Beach&Shores,  Daily photo,  Winter

    Last Wing Down

    February 26, 2015 /

    On an empty stretch of beach, a solitary sculpture rises against the horizon. It is the shape of a wing, its skeletal frame curved into an abstract S, crowned with a weathered propeller. It whispers of endings: of aircraft grounded forever, of journeys cut short, of stories that no one remained to tell. The black-and-white tones of the image deepen the sense of time suspended. Without colour, the scene feels like a fragment from the past, a memory caught in the salt air. Waves curl and break in the distance, indifferent to the monument on the sand. The tide comes and goes, as it has long before the flight this…

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    The Street Photographer Dilemma: Film or Digital

    March 21, 2015

    Partner in Glam

    May 3, 2023

    Smoke is everywhere…

    February 21, 2013
  • B&W,  Beach&Shores,  Daily photo,  Winter

    Between Sea and Sky

    February 12, 2015 /

    This frame was taken from the window of a descending flight—a rare moment when clouds, coastline, and light lined up like a deliberate composition. What I saw wasn’t dramatic, just elemental: water, air, light. That was enough. I chose monochrome not for effect, but for clarity. In colour, the image lost its cohesion—too many tonal distractions in the blue ranges, too much softness in the sea. Stripping it to black and white revealed a quiet structure beneath the atmosphere: horizontal bands of texture, density, and reflection. Technically, the image stretches the limits of what you can get through a scratched plane window and turbulent light. The glass wasn’t clean, the…

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    A Taxi Night Fleet At Oslo’s Central Station

    September 26, 2014

    Secret Beyond the Door

    October 24, 2013

    On Air

    July 22, 2014
  • Beach&Shores,  Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  Winter

    Red Dot

    January 21, 2015 /

    Some images announce themselves with complexity; others with quiet restraint. This one does so with a single point of vivid colour—the red hat—set against a palette of muted sand, sea, and sky. It’s a study in minimalism, yet it avoids sterility. The human figure, bent slightly forward, and the small dog at their side bring a sense of companionship to an otherwise expansive emptiness. Compositionally, the frame is built on horizontal layers: foreground sand, a band of ochre beach, the blue strip of sea, and a pale sky. The subject stands almost dead centre, which in some contexts could flatten the dynamic, but here it serves to anchor the eye…

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    Paths of Life

    January 20, 2013

    When We Thought We Would Have Changed The World

    August 21, 2014

    So long and thank you for the fish

    February 6, 2014
  • Beach&Shores,  Colour,  Daily photo,  Winter

    Hanging

    January 19, 2015 /

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    A Sad Cat in a Neko Cafè

    August 5, 2018

    Belgian Chocolate – Neuhaus

    November 16, 2015

    Seeking Directions

    March 18, 2013
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Landscape,  Winter

    An Open Gate

    January 13, 2015 /

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    The Google Experiment

    February 1, 2014

    Collision Path

    July 5, 2019

    Sweet Dilemma

    November 4, 2015
  • Beach&Shores,  Colour,  Daily photo,  Landscape,  Winter

    A Panorama

    December 30, 2014 /

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    Efesto’s New Production Line

    September 20, 2014

    High Heels Ghost

    August 20, 2013

    Renovating Milan

    November 18, 2017
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Landscape,  Winter

    Pouring Water Since About 300 Years

    December 23, 2014 /

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    Washed

    November 22, 2015

    High-Tech Elder Care Tool

    April 2, 2013

    @ Mediterranean Beach Games 2015 – Italian Female Rowing Team

    October 25, 2015
  • Chairs&Seats,  Colour,  Daily photo,  Landscape,  Winter

    A Rural View

    December 8, 2014 /

    The photograph frames the landscape through layers of architecture. Brick columns, wooden beams, and the shadowed floor lead the eye directly to the opening in the centre, where chairs and a table sit quietly against rolling hills. The space becomes a proscenium, turning countryside into spectacle, an everyday view into a staged scene. Composition is strict, almost symmetrical. The vertical columns create a grid that anchors the image, while the open middle draws attention forward. The empty chairs, evenly placed, act as stand-ins for absent viewers, inviting the gaze outward. Depth is built in three stages: the shaded foreground, the architectural frame, and the brightly lit landscape beyond. Technically, exposure…

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    A pouch for the Fuji XF 150-600

    May 16, 2023

    5 frames with a Voigtländer Bessa R2, a Nokton 35/1,4 and a roll of an expired Kodak Portra 160

    July 11, 2024

    Ready For Lunch

    November 1, 2014
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Landscape,  Winter

    Pavement

    November 16, 2014 /

    Look down. That’s where the history usually hides. This photo was taken not for what it shows, but for what it holds: time, pressure, order, and the slow, quiet work of weather. Pebbles set into concrete. Bricks pressed into place. Moss finding the lines and growing into them without permission. There’s nothing dramatic here—no subject in the conventional sense. Just texture and pattern and subtle, lived-in contrast. Whites, greens, browns, a bit of erosion, and a soft blue cast that comes from early evening or maybe reflected sky. A patch of street that thousands have stepped over without ever seeing. Sometimes photography is about finding the unnoticed—framing a space so…

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    On Detachment. Or ‘If You Love Something, Set It Free’ (cit. Sting)

    June 17, 2025

    Blackfriars Train Station Banner

    September 22, 2016

    A Focused (or Sad) Violinist

    December 17, 2016
  • Beach&Shores,  Colour,  Daily photo,  Summer

    Billiard On The Field

    November 2, 2014 /

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    Gotcha!

    August 16, 2013

    Mandatory Photo Position

    August 3, 2019

    Afternoon’s Mumbling

    August 27, 2013
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Landscape,  Winter

    The Chicken

    September 10, 2014 /

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    A Bitter Sweet

    March 23, 2013

    In the Rain, A Helping Hand

    July 10, 2019

    Passage Lost

    August 9, 2014
  • Beach&Shores,  Colour,  Daily photo,  Summer

    TicTacToe

    September 1, 2014 /

    There’s a curious satisfaction in photographing something utterly ordinary and discovering that it holds more visual weight than you’d expect. This playground tic-tac-toe frame caught my attention not because of its intended purpose — a children’s game — but because of its worn, slightly battered state. The fading X’s and O’s spoke of countless small hands spinning those yellow cubes, of games that probably never reached a conclusion before someone was called away for ice cream or a turn on the slide. I framed it dead-centre, allowing the game board to occupy most of the image, boxed in by the green plastic casing. The symmetry gives the photograph a formal,…

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    Three Lamps

    September 19, 2022

    Springtime

    April 23, 2015

    José Ignacio Franco – Live@Auditorium Petruzzi

    July 31, 2022
  • Beach&Shores,  Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  Summer

    A Standup Paddleboarder

    August 25, 2014 /

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    Just Another Times Square View

    July 9, 2014

    Americana Skating – Italian National Championship 2019

    February 4, 2019

    Boats

    September 18, 2021
  • Beach&Shores,  Colour,  Daily photo

    Mussels Underwater…

    August 23, 2014 /

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    A Virtual Glance Dance

    December 28, 2019

    Floating Flower

    May 19, 2015

    An Old Portable Camera

    October 14, 2014
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