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  • Beach&Shores,  Colour,  Daily photo,  Summer

    Sea Anemones

    August 20, 2014 /

    A modest waterproof case. A curious eye. A tide pool teeming with colour and texture. This photograph captures more than just two sea anemones nestled in their rocky enclave. It captures the enduring truth that photography is not always about the gear — but about the gaze. No high-end housing, no bespoke optics — just patience, instinct, and the will to submerge the lens where it rarely dares to go. The shallow water refracts the light into a painterly softness. Reflections and shadows dance on the submerged stones. The vivid, almost surreal red of the anemones emerges against a muted background, revealing an alien world within reach of a casual…

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    Belgian Macarons

    November 2, 2015

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    November 26, 2022

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    October 30, 2017
  • Beach&Shores,  Colour,  Daily photo,  Gear,  Landscape

    Pentax k-5 And The Aquapack 458

    August 15, 2014 /

    Like the other two previous pictures, this one too has been taken by a Pentax K-5 housed into an Aquapack 458. This underwater housing, at least for APS-C dSLR, is a cheaper alternative to the more expensive, though bigger and better engineered, Ewa Marine. It fairly easy accommodates the camera and the DA* 16-50, but using this lens that has a 77mm filter thread forces the use a focal lenght of at least than 40-45 mm, otherwise the border of the external cap fills-in the picture. A DA* 16-50 at 16mm (I repeat: with a 77mm filter thread) is the bigger lens that can be accommodated into the housing, but…

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    An Old Wi(n)dow

    November 17, 2014

    Weren’t a Smartphone and a Selfie Stick Enough?

    October 6, 2016

    An Exercise in Composition (was: Rowing Boats)

    February 18, 2024
  • Beach&Shores,  Colour,  Daily photo,  Landscape,  Summer

    Under The Rocks

    August 14, 2014 /

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    LP – Live@Anfiteatro La Civitella

    July 22, 2022

    Out for a While

    September 26, 2013

    Portrait of a Judo Master

    November 14, 2013
  • Beach&Shores,  Colour,  Daily photo,  Landscape

    On The Rocks

    August 13, 2014 /

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    Denegata Justitia

    March 2, 2020

    We Are All Made of Stars

    February 28, 2018

    While Waiting for the Food

    September 3, 2013
  • B&W,  Beach&Shores,  Daily photo,  Summer,  WideAngle

    Bent

    July 13, 2014 /

    Shot with a Nikon F3 and a 16mm fisheye, this isn’t your typical curved-sky, skateboard-in-midair kind of photo. Instead of pushing the distortion to the front of the image, I let it sneak in at the edges—just enough to bend the rules. The subject is ordinary: a coastal bridge, a pedestrian path, the usual lampposts lining a curve. But the lens pulls the whole scene inward, gives it weight and sweep, turns a flat space into something that stretches, leans, folds in on itself. I like using fisheye glass this way—not as a gimmick, not for laughs, but to see how geometry shifts when you force perspective without centring it.…

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    A HDR Experiment

    December 9, 2013

    Where Did I Left My Car?

    April 2, 2015

    A Roller Coaster… A Kind Of

    April 3, 2014
  • Beach&Shores,  Colour,  Daily photo,  Observer Bias,  People,  Summer

    A Dragon Trainer?

    July 8, 2014 /

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    Leo Gullotta – Bartleby lo scrivano@Teatro Marrucino

    March 15, 2022

    The Path To Freedom

    September 29, 2014

    The 365th Shot: Between Sacred and Profane

    December 14, 2013
  • Beach&Shores,  Colour,  Daily photo,  Landscape,  Spring

    Falling Tree

    May 8, 2014 /

    Again, an impossible perspective…

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    The First Picture of the Year

    January 5, 2019

    Three Legged?

    July 21, 2017

    A useless photo

    July 23, 2013
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Landscape

    For Sale

    May 5, 2014 /

    Long gone is the time when people loved to live in the countryside

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    The Taste Master

    March 2, 2014

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    June 14, 2013

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    July 17, 2016
  • Beach&Shores,  Colour,  Daily photo,  Gear,  Photography,  Spring,  Visual,  WideAngle

    Noon on the Beach

    May 1, 2014 /

    Another experiment with the Nikkor 16mm F/3,5 Fish-Eye. Using this lens in a less conventional way is really challenging for the composition. Keep trying.

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    A Quiet Evening

    June 26, 2013

    The BatFire

    April 29, 2016

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

    October 3, 2014
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Landscape,  Spring

    Ninja-Turtles?

    April 30, 2014 /

    They seem to like sun-bathing more than sword-fighting…

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    Buying Chocolate

    October 31, 2015

    Too Young to Spend Time Watching the Ducks in the Pond

    October 22, 2013

    The Mailbox

    May 5, 2013
  • Beach&Shores,  Colour,  Daily photo,  WideAngle

    Horizon Bending, Again

    April 28, 2014 /

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    Luggages

    April 20, 2019

    Climbing is hard

    March 25, 2013

    Isolation in public spaces

    November 10, 2023
  • Beach&Shores,  Colour,  Daily photo,  Spring,  WideAngle

    The Misplaced Buoy

    April 26, 2014 /

    This time I’ve enabled the lens correction feature so that the Nikkor 16mm F/3,5 Fish-Eye  horizon doesn’t looked curved.

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    Bored

    March 7, 2013

    Reasonable Privacy Expectation

    April 17, 2014

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    August 3, 2014
  • Beach&Shores,  Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  WideAngle

    Footprint

    April 24, 2014 /

    Still… wideing.

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    A Casual Walk

    March 6, 2015

    Nightlife in Bruxelles

    June 27, 2014

    Yet Another WDISF Post

    May 5, 2024
  • Beach&Shores,  Chairs&Seats,  Colour,  Daily photo,  People

    Do Not Disturb the News Reader

    February 24, 2014 /

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

    December 14, 2014

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    March 8, 2013

    Italian Track&Field Championship 2018 – The reportage

    September 12, 2018
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Landscape,  Photography,  Winter

    Italy, Landscape Photography and the Law – Part Two

    February 23, 2014 /

    In a previous post I addressed some of the legal issues involved in Landscape Photography where copyright was willfully not mentioned: since copyright is an outcome of human creativity who might ever think of imposing it over a landscape? Well, as much as it sounds crazy, somebody did it: on 2o11 the Town of San Quirico d’Orcia, in Tuscany, passed a local regulation that copyrights landscape images and artistic, cultural, environmental and architectural “stuff”, making mandatory pro shooter to ask for an authorization before starting their sessions. This local regulation is simply illegal, because “copyright” implies an act of creativity, while the landscape in itself doesn’t (unless you believe in…

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    Zebra Crossing in Oslo… With Red Light

    October 12, 2014

    Relaxed Call at Boulevard du Palais

    March 19, 2014

    An inconvenient way to spend time.

    March 15, 2013
  • 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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    April 18, 2013

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  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Landscape,  Photography

    Italy, Landscape Photography and the Law

    January 23, 2014 /

    Welcome back to the “Law, Order and Photography in Italy” series. The second episode (the first being about Street-Photography) deals with Landscape Photography and, again, provides practical advise for the photographer who travels through Italy shooting its nature. Summary Landscape Photography, at first sight, looks like a piece of cake. No need to hip shoot, no fear of being confronted by an illiterate policeman or angry passerby, no model-release to carry… just you, your camera and your subject: the Nature. But things, as often in Italy, aren’t that simple since rules and regulations extend (literally) up to the top of the mountains. To put it short, there are a few…

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  • 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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    March 28, 2014

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    March 21, 2014

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    April 22, 2014
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Landscape,  Winter

    A Tree through the Fog

    January 5, 2014 /

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    October 1, 2022

    @Rome Maker Faire – 4. The Hands Controller

    October 16, 2014
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Landscape,  Winter

    Welcome in the Twilight Zone

    January 3, 2014 /

    I wasn’t sure whether I was just coming down or entering into the Twilight Zone…

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  • 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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    Kite Surfing, Again

    February 19, 2017

    Cold Freezing Touring Through The Oslo’s Fjord

    October 4, 2014

    The Casual Observer

    September 5, 2013
  • Beach&Shores,  Colour,  Daily photo,  Winter

    Landed

    December 19, 2013 /

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    May 7, 2013

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    October 26, 2017
  • B&W,  Beach&Shores,  Daily photo,  Docks,  Landscape

    The Seagull’s Rest

    December 18, 2013 /

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    January 26, 2022

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    November 16, 2013

    Damned Autofocus

    April 20, 2014
  • 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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